There is an increasing importance placed upon disaster recovery. Organizations are relying more upon WAN-based backup and data replication efforts to secure critical data.  Backup and replication across the WAN ensures that another copy of this data can be both protected and stored at an alternate location in the event of a disaster. The challenge is to accelerate WAN backup applications but not cripple other mission critical traffic. Wide-area data services (WDS) solutions optimize backup and replication applications to typically reduce backup windows by more 3x or more. Additionally, bandwidth utilization is exponentially reduced. Special optimization techniques for “long fat networks” can accelerate WAN backup and replication efforts even when there are no bandwidth constraints. Dramatic performance gains enable organizations to reliably complete wide area backups without interfering with other applications that require the network. In the event of a failure data recovery is accelerated so that business continuity is achieved.

Related Technologies

• Network Performance Optimization

Related applications

• Datacenter Optimization
• Server Consolidation

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Case Study: LAN Acceleration for Latency Reduction/Back-Up Efficiency, RI National Guard

Datasheets:
• Riverbed’s Steelhead Family: Acceleration Applications for the Global Workforce
• Expand Accelerator Family: WAN Optimization Platform


Solution Overviews:
• WAN Optimization and Wireless Combined for Superior Results: Riverbed and Aruba Revolutionize the Office and the Mobile Worker
• Steelhead Mobile Solution: Award-winning WDS technology to any PC, including mobile workers, temporary locations, and very small offices (Riverbed)
• Riverbed Satellite Acceleration
• Accelerate Military Satellite WANs with Riverbed and SkipWare: Combining Interoperability, Standards, and Peak Performance
• Network-Based Backup & Data Replication
• Server Consolidation: Riverbed & VMWare



Practice Area Overview: Network Performance Optimization