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The d'Amico Group Increases Employee Collaboration and Productivity With Private Cloud Enabled by Riverbed WAN Optimization
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nov 28, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, today
announced d'Amico Societa di Navigazione, a global shipping
organization that supplies dry and oil tankers to customers
worldwide, is using Riverbed(R) wide area network (WAN) optimization
solutions to support a data center consolidation initiative as part
of a migration to a private cloud. The deployment of Steelhead(R)
appliances at the centralized data center and branch offices, and
Steelhead(R) Mobile software for remote and mobile users, allowed
d'Amico Societa di Navigazione to improve collaboration across
multiple teams and employee productivity. By using the Steelhead(R)
product family, the company was able to deploy new collaborative and
productivity-enhancing services to employees, including VoIP and
video conferencing, and still reduce bandwidth consumption by 5x.
d'Amico Societa di Navigazione owns around 60 bulkers and tankers,
each of which carries bulk commodities, such as cement products,
grain, coal, iron, or refined oil products. The workforce includes
mobile workers, as well as teams working from offices in Italy,
France, Monaco, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Philippines, and
Canada. d'Amico Societa di Navigazione carried out a data center
consolidation initiative as part of a migration to a private cloud
solution that would centralize the management of its business
operations and allow multiple teams to collaborate using commonly
accessed files. The consolidation initiative included the removal of
20 local email servers from the branch offices to reduce management
and maintenance costs. The challenge the company faced was the
additional time it took for employees to access files and collaborate
over the WAN after local branch office servers were removed and files
and applications were relocated to the data center.
"We supplied more than enough bandwidth to our remote sites, but
employees complained of poor application performance. We acknowledged
that this problem was mainly due to the distance and latency across
the WAN, and therefore increasing our bandwidth would not resolve the
issue," said Pietro Amorusi, chief information officer at d'Amico
Societa di Navigazione. "We tested products from three WAN
optimization vendors, and the Riverbed Steelhead products gave us the
best results for accelerating application performance over the WAN.
In addition, the Steelhead appliances were the easiest to deploy and
manage, which made selecting Riverbed the overall best choice for
us."
With the Riverbed Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile client
software deployed at all eight branch offices, employees can now
share centralized files at LAN-like speeds, which has improved
collaboration across multiple teams, and improved employee
productivity. In addition, the deployment of the Steelhead products
resulted in a 5x reduction in bandwidth usage, and allowed d'Amico
Societa di Navigazione to make new services available to its
employees over the WAN, including VoIP and video conferencing
services, without incurring additional bandwidth costs.
"Originally, we looked at WAN optimization as a tactical solution to
solve our distance and latency issues. However, we quickly realized
that with the bandwidth and cost savings we could be much more
strategic and could enable greater employee collaboration and
productivity," added Amorusi.
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expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, and statements
relating to Riverbed's ability to grow market share and meet the
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Commission. More information about these and other risks that may
impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with
the SEC on October 25, 2012. All forward-looking statements in this
press release are based on information available to us as of the date
hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that
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and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement.
Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any
time.
About Riverbed
Riverbed delivers performance for the globally
connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and
intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization,
consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of
compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they
need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps
enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that
aligns with the business needs of the organization. Additional
information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at
www.riverbed.com.
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