Five Considerations to Enable a More Agile Infrastructure
 
 
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consolidating, and virtualizing your servers in the data center. You can reduce your bandwidth requirements, while increasing the
number and types of applications running on the WAN. You can replicate everything, not just a random pick list, for
comprehensive disaster recovery in your offsite location, and do so on the same network without impacting other business traffic.
You can adopt cloud computing services where they make sense to your IT strategy, and integrate the best choices seamlessly,
even across the public Internet.
 
We ve looked at five considerations to enable a more agile infrastructure, discussing the dependencies between location,
performance, scale, cost and flexibility, and how you can increase your agility with a new approach to the network that connects
everything. Now it s time to decide how you want to resolve these issues and finally get ahead in the game. Who wants to play?
Are you in or out?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions
liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing
enterprise-wide network and application visibility all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers.
Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more
responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
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