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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: Riverbed Technology, the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced that Sentinel Real Estate Corporation deployed 150 Steelhead appliances to support a US-wide IT consolidation effort.
As a result, Sentinel employees working in dispersed offices are able to more efficiently collaborate due to the dramatic improvements in application performance.
Sentinel Real Estate Corporation and its affiliates comprise a fully integrated organization that provides real estate investment management services to institutional and qualified private investors in the United States and abroad.
Sentinel manages pooled and separate accounts holding diversified portfolios of real estate properties valued at $5 billion. These portfolios include over 156 properties in 29 states, with many types of income-producing properties represented, from multifamily rental properties to office buildings, industrial facilities and shopping centres.
Sentinel has almost 200 dispersed offices across the US, with teams that work on localized projects but need to work securely with geographically dispersed affiliates, such as banks to transmit money transactions between offices. It is difficult for the small IT team of less than ten people to accommodate the needs of the 200 offices running independent systems. The IT team struggled to manage data, compliance and centralization among the dispersed offices.
Emile Rashkovich, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sentinel, said: "With so many offices and a lack of local IT support, it became important for Sentinel to safeguard its data through an IT consolidation project that transported all data to one data centre in New York. With no technical presence in these dispersed offices, we felt there was a need to better protect our data. The goal of our consolidation effort was to protect data that may be compromised or lost due to natural disasters – for instance offices in Northern California being hit by a fire."