Riverbed Connect

Riverbed releases RiOS 5.5, a major update to the Steelhead appliance

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EST

Riverbed continues to innovate in the wide-area data services (WDS) market with a major update to the software that powers its industry-leading Steelhead appliance platform. With groundbreaking features spanning application acceleration, disaster recovery, and branch office edge services, RiOS 5.5 delivers speed, scale, simplicity, and cost savings to branch office and data center IT environments.

Riverbed releases a major update to its Steelhead Mobile software

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EST

Riverbed's Wide-area Data Services solutions are having a profound impact on the performance of applications that span data center, branch office, and mobile worker environments. Riverbed's integrated solution consists of a Steelhead appliance, which is an IT infrastructure appliance for the branch office and data center and Steelhead Mobile software, which is software that is deployed on a laptop or home worker PC. These solutions together change the way that thousands of organizations can leverage their wide area network connected infrastructure to do more with less.

Riverbed saves Aviva money, while boosting user productivity at the same time

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EST

In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert sits down with Tuck Poh, Aviva's Manager of IT Services, to discuss how Riverbed's Steelhead appliances have improved Aviva's business by enabling them to defer bandwidth upgrades and boosting the performance of key applications.

Video demonstration of Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile software

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:00:00 EST

Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile software is having a profound impact on the application performance for mobile workers that travel outside of the office or work at home. Applications like windows file sharing, email, and Microsoft SharePoint are sped up dramatically with Steelhead Mobile in place. In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert demonstrates the capabilities of Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile product.

Rayonier Accelerates Savings with Riverbed

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Wed, 29 May 2008 20:00:00 EST

Organizations around the globe are turning to Riverbed to facilitate dramatic cost savings in environments where application acceleration, site consolidation, and disaster recovery are key issues. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert chats with Adam Rasner, Rayonier's Director of Corporate Networking, to discuss how Rayonier's global business environment is benefitting from Riverbed's Wide-area Data Services solutions and how Rayonier's investment in Riverbed is quickly paying off.

Extreme Savings with Riverbed

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:00:00 EST

Extreme Savings with Riverbed Today's economic climate is forcing businesses to do more with less. As organizations are tightening their belts, IT budgets focus on needs rather than wants and are looking at ways to not only better their business, but ways to save money. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert chats with Apurva Dave', Riverbed's Director of Product Marketing, to discuss how Riverbed's Wide-area Data Services solutions not only have a positive impact on organization's business goals, but can also save money at the same time.

Limbach Company Tackles Application Performance Problems with Riverbed

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 31 mar 2008 20:00:00 EST

Riverbed's customer base is growing fast as organizations are turning to Wide-area Data Services to address issues in application acceleration, site consolidation, and disaster recovery. In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert sits down with Aaron McCarthy, Limbach's IT Manager to discuss how Limbaugh deployed Riverbed's Steelhead appliances to address application performance problems experienced with AutoCAD, InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise, and Lotus Notes.

Limbach Company Tackles Application Performance Problems with Riverbed

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 31 mar 2008 20:00:00 EST

Riverbed Extends Lead in WDS Market with Launch of RiOS 5.0 Software Platform

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EST

With the announcement of RiOS 5.0, Riverbed extends its lead in the Wide-area Data Services market with groundbreaking application acceleration performance, enhancements in device management, more flexible choices for deployment, and a "game changing" capability that extends the Steelhead appliance platform to deploy best-of-breed application services like print, dns/dhcp, and streaming media. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert discusses with Harold Byun, Riverbed's Senior Product Marketing Manager, the details about the features included in the new RiOS 5.0 release.

Riverbed's Competitive Advantages in the Wide-area Data Services Market

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST

The wide-area data services market is gaining a lot of attention from companies that want to accelerate applications, optimize bandwidth, consolidate their branch office IT infrastructure, or accelerate their disaster recovery operations. Organizations have a lot of options when it comes to selecting a vendor that can address their wide-area data services needs. The task of selecting a vendor can be daunting as many vendors look the same on paper. In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert sits down with Josh Tseng, Riverbed's Director of Technical Marketing to discuss the wide-area data services competitive landscape and how Riverbed's product stands out from the rest of the pack.

Riverbed Connect 2007 year in review for Wide-area Data Services

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EST

2007 has been a banner year for Wide-area Data Services and for Riverbed Technology in particular. The Riverbed Connect podcast series launched in March to bring first hand knowledge and experiences covering Wide-area Data Services to a public audience. In Riverbed's final podcast of 2007, Bob Gilbert reflects back on the interviews and topics covered throughout the year.

Riverbed becomes the bedrock of German Marshall Fund's Global Network

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Tue, 26 Nov 2007 20:00:00 EST

Over 3000 customers have deployed Riverbed products to address a variety of challenges that are presented with their globally distributed branch office, data center, and mobile worker infrastructure. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert sits down with Michael O'Brien, IT Director for the German Marshall Fund to discuss how German Marshall Fund is looking to Riverbed to improve application performance, optimize replication, and simplify the IT infrastructure across the company's globally distributed business environment.

Riverbed Releases RiOS 4.1 Software Update with Enhancements in Speed, Scalability, and Security

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Wed, 30 Oct 2007 20:00:00 EST

Riverbed continues to extend its competitive lead in the wide-area data services arena with a software update to its Steelhead appliances that includes extended capabilities in the areas of application acceleration, scalability, and security. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert discusses with Harold Byun, Riverbed's Senior Product Marketing Manager, the details about the features included in the new RiOS 4.1 release.

Network Transparency and Application Acceleration

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:00:00 EST

Application acceleration deployments should be simple. Vendors have worked hard to make the acceleration appliances network compatible, good network citizens, and easy to deploy and maintain. However, transparency is often raised as a critical consideration by some vendors when evaluating application acceleration devices. In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert and Peter Sevcik, Vice President of NetForecast, discuss the topic of transparency and application acceleration.

IT Gets a Big "Thank You" From Users?

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EST

This is what happened to the IT staff at Thomas Weisel partners after they successfully installed Riverbed's Steelhead appliance in their complex network environment. In this installment of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert sits down with Kevin Fiore, VP of Engineering Services at Thomas Weisel Partners as they discuss how deploying Riverbed's WDS product not only made the IT staff heroes, but also how seamless the deployment was in their complex infrastructure with critical services like VoIP, video, and QoS.

Mobile Workforce Acceleration: a Customer's Perspective

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EST

In this installment of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert and Travis Klasna, JEO Consulting's CAD Manager and IT assistant, review JEO's experience with Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile product and how it has impacted their business.

Accelerating the Mobile Workforce with Steelhead Mobile

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EST

In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert and Jess Leroy (Riverbed's Director of product Management) discuss Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile product and how it addresses the application performance issues that have plagued remote workers for years.

Accelerating Secure Business Applications - Mark Stuart Day

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:00:00 EST

Bob Gilbert discusses with Mark Day, Riverbed's Chief Scientist, the details involving SSL encryption, SSL's impact on WAN optimization, and new wide-area data services techniques that result in dramatic performance gains of SSL-encrypted applications.

Wide-area Data Services...What's all the hype about? - Apurva Dave

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:00:00 EST

Bob Gilbert sits down with Apurva Dave', Riverbed's Director of Product Marketing and discusses the WDS market and how Riverbed's ground-breaking Steelhead appliance product is having a profound impact on organizations around the globe.

The Business Impact of Performance - Peter Sevcik

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:00:00 EST

Apurva Dave' discusses the strategic impact of wide-area data services on your IT strategy with Peter Sevcik, industry analyst from NetForecast Analyst Group. The NetForecast paper "The Business Impact of Performance" is the focus of this discussion.

Successful IT Consolidation - Steve Smoot

bgilbert@riverbed.com (Riverbed Technology) — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:00:00 EST

Apurva Dave' and Steve Smoot discuss the topic of consolidation and how wide area data services plays into the performance aspect of consolidation.