WAN optimization addictive for enterprises

WAN Optimization

WAN optimization addictive for enterprises

WAN optimization, along with virtualization, has emerged as one of the top three priorities for global CIOs this year

Usha Prasad

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Indian scenario
“Adoption of WAN optimization in India is quite similar to the Australian market. India has a very technology-savvy audience. Riverbed had a great deal of success in selling to Indian organizations. We also have a number of major deals in progress here right now. The Indian market has a reasonable awareness of the technology. Considering the geography and the service environment, the requirement and the benefits of our products is quite high here,” says Healey.

Riverbed is present in India for the last two and a half years, during which time, it has been able to garner more than 300 big customers. “We continue to grow our business in a very rapid rate in this market., particularly in Bangalore. As the technology becomes better understood and accepted, these days customers are designing their new network infrastructure with WAN optimization as a mandatory requirement. Unaccelerated performance is not simply acceptable, it is highly intolerable these days. This technology is very addictive,” he says.

“From the experience with our customers, we see WAN optimization is becoming virtually mandatory along with other top 10 or 20 initiatives. It basically makes everything work so much better. So, virtually for any major IT initiative, CIOs these days really should consider WAN acceleration technology,” Healey adds.

Way forward for Riverbed
Riverbed works around the principle of two key messages - “Do More With Less” or “Do More With What You Got”, says Healey.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, Riverbed closed more than 500 accounts globally across industry verticals including the government sector. Riverbed has a tradition of releasing two to three products every year. “The third quarter in 2008 was actually the busiest one in our company's history. We released Version 5.5 of RiOS (Riverbed Optimization System) and did a lot of work in the integration with network management and monitoring partners, and also rolled out new hardware platforms including the new RiOS services platform. The pace of our innovation continues through out 2009,” says Healey.

Explaining further, he says, “We have recently redesigned our products. Our products are all about speed.” Riverbed offers a truly revolutionary technology - which is relatively cheap and very simple to deploy and makes what was previously thought impossible to be able to achieved, he added.

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