Wide Area Networks

HP ProCurve networking products include a broad line of LAN core switches, LAN edge switches, and wireless LAN and network security solutions that are all brought together under a unified management suite. To determine the return on investment (ROI) associated with implementation of an HP ProCurve network solution, IDC conducted a study of medium-sized to large organizations with an HP ProCurve implementation up and running in their production environment. IDC estimates that these businesses were able to achieve a 473% ROI; a three-year (discounted) benefit of $38,466 per 100 users; and payback on their initial investment within 5.7 months.

Networking advancements are transforming infrastructure utilization and changing the way organizations provision communications and information technology (IT) for the enterprise. In order to keep up, companies need a secure, mobile, multi-service network. This paper will explore the changing networking environment and how this new design approach helps organizations improve business and technology performance while minimizing investment risk.

In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.

Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.

Regional government offices can be neglected outposts of IT, but they need reliable resources to serve the residents who come to their agencies for help and guidance. This challenge is felt nationally, as agencies are consolidating some of their operations and the IT that sup¬ports them. But combining branches and their IT technologies without a plan for adapting the IT infrastructure can be difficult, complicated and expensive. This guide discusses the challenges and explains HP's solutions approach, which is based on its latest generation of ProLiant servers and designed for different-sized organizations.

Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.

Are satellite connections making collaboration across your WAN nearly impossible? That's no surprise, given the high latency and low bandwidth that is endemic to satellite links. Application performance is often very poor, challenging teams around the globe. This solutions brief explains how using WAN optimization solutions can enable more robust, LAN-like performance over satel­lite connections with out-of-the-box compatibility that accelerates the broadest range of applications remote workers need to function effectively over the WAN.

One of the greatest challenges today is effectively backing up and protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. With WAN optimization, you can accelerate network-based backup by 5x and can reduce bandwidth use by up to 95%. Download this paper and learn more about this strategy today.

Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. This revolutionary approach allows customers to deploy local services in all their branch offices without the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications. The business benefits are minimizing the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling companies to consolidate IT operations even further, reducing costs, and simplifying administration, all while still delivering high quality local services. Read this Feature Brief for more information.

Want a standard IT platform that delivers network optimization and virtualization to the branch office? This Forrester report discusses why WAN optimization is the best way to gain better performance and cost savings for your business.

Ready to accelerate disaster recovery across your entire enterprise? Read this Taneja report to find out how you can increase WAN efficiency, overcome latency, and optimize IT performance for disaster recovery by deploying WAN optimization.

Want to understand how other companies are turning their Riverbed investments into cost-saving machines? Download this case study bundle and uncover the money-saving secrets of WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed. These four enlightening case studies about very different organizations show how enterprises can slash network and IT costs while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes. It's called Extreme Savings and only Riverbed can deliver it.

Psomas is a leading consulting engineering firm offering services for private companies and government agencies in the water transportation and land development markets. As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to accelerate application performance to accommodate a changing set of demands from the business as well as employees. They needed to overcome frustrating delays that were hindering project collaboration and work sharing, avoid mishaps with miscommunication among employees, and at the same time deploy technology that could keep up with their pace of growth. After considering bandwidth upgrades and point products, Psomas decided to go with the Riverbed Steelhead solution. With Riverbed Steelhead products deployed worldwide, their employees can now share work and leverage resources wherever they happen to be.

How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. In this paper, we examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.

Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction.

Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. This handbook elaborates on the key tasks associated with planning, optimization, management and control and provides decision criteria to help IT organizations choose appropriate solutions.

Many SharePoint implementations are mission critical, yet access to these sites is often thwarted by poor network performance. In this analyst report from ESG, you'll discover how, much like Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions, ensuring that they make the most of its productivity and information sharing capabilities

This is a Performance Brief that illustrates how Riverbed Steelhead appliances accelerate MS SharePoint Services over the WAN.

Choosing an ERP solution is all about understanding which vendor configuration delivers the most benefit for your business. We have the playbook. From basics like financial and HR management to advanced features like Business Intelligence components, the ERP Buyer's Guide from Focus Research is a must-read for today's enterprise companies.

Download the FREE in-depth research to learn the industry's top 10 questions to ask your Hosted IP PBX provider prior to the purchase or upgrade of your telephony infrastructure.

Midmarket firms must incorporate new levels of bandwidth and intelligence into their network to handle technologies such as VoIP and videoconferencing. IDC interviewed several organizations to determine their future networking strategies. Learn how they built a foundation to meet network switch demands with an average 5.7 month payback and zero annual maintenance fees.

IT managers are actively looking at their network infrastructure with an eye on reducing the complexity and cost of proprietary systems. See why Gartner and the network industry have positioned HP as a leader and the fastest-growing enterprise Ethernet LAN networking vendor. HP's commitment to industry-standards can help organizations optimize their network.

The Network is evolving and Gartner Research predicts that 70% of new enterprise users by 2013 will be wireless by default and wired by exception. During the next three years, enterprises should develop common policies and tools for security, guest access and network management for wired as well as wireless network infrastructures. Also enterprises purchasing wired or wireless solutions should choose vendors according to their abilities to secure and manage the entire infrastructure access layer.