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Riverbed Steelhead has proven to be an essential tool for enabling remote work conditions. Users have reported a significant reduction in …
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What is Riverbed SteelHead?
San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN Optimization,…
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San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN…
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Riverbed Steelhead has proven to be an essential tool for enabling remote work conditions. Users have reported a significant reduction in file opening time, going from an excruciating 20 minutes to a mere 1.5 minutes. This improvement has made large files workable and has greatly enhanced productivity for remote workers. Additionally, Riverbed Steelhead is widely used for global application acceleration and as a managed service, providing customers with improved operational efficiency. By optimizing traffic and reducing latency, this product ensures that users can access applications and data quickly, regardless of their location.
Another key use case for Riverbed Steelhead is the optimization of WAN connections between different sites. Organizations that have implemented this product have experienced a remarkable improvement in throughput, allowing for the transmission of compressed and optimized data between production and disaster recovery sites. Moreover, the Steelhead mobile controller plays a vital role in enhancing the end-user experience over VPN connections. By optimizing traffic between the production site and remote users, it ensures that performance is maintained, even when working remotely.
Many organizations also rely on Riverbed Steelhead to optimize traffic and limit bandwidth usage for their remote offices, providing near-local performance for tasks such as file opening and mailbox syncing. This not only improves productivity but also reduces the reliance on expensive MPLS bandwidth. Customers who opt for the Managed WAN Acceleration Service based on Riverbed benefit from having their hardware consistently up and running, ensuring smooth operations without the hassle of maintaining the infrastructure themselves.
Lastly, Riverbed Steelhead offers valuable traffic flow analysis capabilities. This feature allows organizations to gain insights into their network traffic patterns, identify bottlenecks or congested areas, and make informed decisions about network optimization strategies.
Overall, Riverbed Steelhead has demonstrated its value across different use cases by improving file opening times, enhancing operational efficiency, optimizing WAN connections, providing a seamless remote work experience, limiting bandwidth usage, and enabling effective traffic analysis. Its versatility and reliability have made it a go-to solution for organizations looking to maximize their network performance.
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September 23, 2021
Trusted Steelhead
When COVID hit we really felt we were remote ready. Although our remote options were good, our Riverbed Steelhead allow our large files to be workable where they were not before. A 20 minute file opening time was cut to only 1.5 minutes bringing us back to office like work conditions. Since then it has only helped to streamline our operations.
- Data Reduction
- Increase Speed
- Make Large CAD Files Workable
- Even More Speed
- Greater and Faster Data Reduction
- Increased Dashboard Capabilities
- Speed
- Data Reduction
- Office-like Feel While Remote
- Saved Us Work
- Saved Time
- Helped Keep Profit
We felt our value and price for Riverbed Steelhead blew the competition out of the water.
October 20, 2019
Riverbed Steelhead - Makes your network speedy!
We use Riverbed Steelheads at all of our sites (around 10). They are mainly used to optimise SMB traffic from file servers. This allows us to have near local performance for opening word documents and PDFs. It also helps with Exchange Mailboxes, with a handy feature that continues to sync mail onto the Riverbed Unit even when the client is turned off.
- File and Folder Optimisation
- Microsoft Exchange Optimisation
- Data Bandwidth Reporting
- We found that the Citrix optimisation wasn't as fast as we had hoped
- Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds.
- We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker.
We used some firewalls with built-in WAN optimisation, however, they lacked the features that Riverbed Steelhead gave us.
Riverbed Steelhead is used within our organization for the global acceleration of all applications and additionally for our customers as a managed service. For this reason, we designed a product based on Riverbed and named it Managed WAN Acceleration Service. Our customers are buying that service and we keep the hardware up and running and in service.
- Remote sites to datacenters
- Performance over long distances
- Security over WAN
- Integration of public clouds with their licensing
- All hardware in one controller like Steel-Connect
- Has to be integrated into the total cost, e.g. WAN
- High costs in startup for hardware & service
- Cloud Steelhead available, too
We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not available for Cisco WAAS, therefore we selected Riverbed based on a PoC.
May 01, 2017
Ups and downs of Riverbed
Steelhead is used to limit the bandwidth usage for our remote offices.
- For many protocols, Steelhead does not need any tuning to provide benefit.
- In our offices that are using SnapMirror replication we've seen over 90% optimization.
- We've had a recurring issue with SPORT errors causing Steelhead to crash across our environment. This has been an issue across several versions of code.
- Steelhead will randomly drop out of the AD domain thus disabling SMB2/3 optimization and encrypted MAPI optimization.
- We've been able to increase the amount of data we are replicating and thus increasing our recover ability in the case of DR.
Steelhead is still clearly the leader in this space but needs to work on RIOS code stability.
September 02, 2016
Steelhead Riverbed - a solid performer
We have Riverbed Steelhead deployed across our global organization. We use it to optimize traffic, which allows us to use lower MPLS bandwidth than otherwise needed, saving us thousands of dollars. We also use it to analyze traffic flows.
- Optimizes traffic, reducing bandwidth needs
- Gives insight into traffic
- Simple to set up and deploy
- A reduction in price is always welcomed
- Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis
- Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive
- We have been able to keep our MPLS expenses to a minimum
- The ease of management and deployment keeps our IT personnel costs down
Riverbed Steelhead offers simplicity and fantastic customer support. The performance is a cut above the others as well.