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Wamgroup Selects Riverbed for Business Disaster in Seismic Zone [Professional Services Close - Up](Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Riverbed Technology reported that Wamgroup has deployed Riverbed SteelFusion branch converged infrastructure to strengthen its branch office disaster-recovery capabilities and provide resilient IT support to its corporate office in the heart of an earthquake zone. According to a company release, with SteelFusion, Wamgroup has consolidated servers and storage into a managed data center, lowering costs while maintaining local application performance for branch workers. Now, with SteelFusion's virtualization and centralization capabilities, Wamgroup can protect and back up its data in a secure environment, instantly recover its business in the event of a natural disaster, and reduce its branch IT footprint. As a long-standing Riverbed customer, Wamgroup also uses Riverbed SteelHead to optimize its area networks and speed the delivery of critical computer-aided design (CAD) files between its corporate offices and production and assembly sites located throughout the world in places as far flung as India, Croatia, USA, and China. In May 2012, two earthquakes hit Northern Italy, causing widespread damage. Situated close to the epicenter, Wamgroup's head office was severely damaged. To future-proof its business, Wamgroup decided to create "server-less offices" by virtualizing and managing its branch servers and storage in an anti-seismic, redundant and high-availability data center outside the "at-risk" zone. With SteelFusion, Wamgroup centrally manages virtual machines, applications and data in a data center and projects them to converged appliances in remote offices for use by distributed users. "With Riverbed SteelFusion, we're now much more resilient as a business. We can provision, manage, back up, and recover any of our sites from our central data center. While business continuity was our business driver, it's also good to know that our new model has a much lower cost of ownership than before," said Marco Malavolta, Head of IT Infrastructure, Wamgroup. "Thanks to SteelFusion, we no longer need to store and manage our data and important systems in high-risk areas. We are now able to instantly recover the business. At the same time the virtualization aspect is making better use of my storage capacity and centralized resources to the extent that we've seen a return on investment after six months." Riverbed is a company focusing in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for Location- Independent Computing. More Information and complete details: http://www.riverbed.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |