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solutions called for a profes- logically advanced.” reduced by 90 percent and
sional, scalable and manage- Dr. Werth adds: “During the HTTP traffic reduced by over
able solution at reasonable Project we investigated 75 percent,” said Werth.
costs. from different point of views “With the Riverbed CMC we
to make sure that the also have a real-time view of
The issues that needed a installed Riverbed Appliances our data and global visibility
solution were either to invest are well sized for future of Raiffeisen operations.”
massively in upgrading net- needs. Therefore we installed
working infrastructure or find- different kind of Riverbed Specific benefits are:
ing a more scalable and pro- Steelhead Appliances depend- circle6 we improved the service
TH 1-2-1
fessional solution for being ing on the branch sizes, like infrastructure due to
ready for the future. This led Riverbed Steelhead 100, consolidation of the Servers
WER
to our decision to consolidate Steelhead 200, Steelhead 520 in campus;
unnecessary Servers and to and Steelhead 1020.
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centralize Data Storage by Furthermore we successfully circle6 we improved the quantity
implementing Riverbed implemented the Riverbed of human resources due to
Appliances.” Working with Mobile Solution using consolidation of the Servers
DR P
Zycko UK, Werth investigated Riverbed Steelhead Mobile in campus;
the WAN optimization solu- Controller (SMC) for mobile
tions available from Riverbed users. As management station circle6 we improved the data
and Cisco. Dr. Werth explains we implemented the Riverbed backup concept by
the decision-making process: Central Management Console centralizing data
“Due to the fact that RUN is 8000 (CMC).
using almost only Cisco circle6 we improved networking
Equipment in our whole “We actually run Software infrastructure by not transmit-
Networking Infrastructure Version RIOS 4.1.7d, but in ting same data multiple
we’ve looked first at the Cisco the last months we’ve tested (counts also for the backup
solutions regarding this tech- the RiOS 5.5.0. The test link which is almost always
nology – Cisco WAFS and results are successful and we smaller connectivity);
Cisco WAAS. look forward to terminate
them in the next weeks, which circle6 we created a “lan-like” sit-
“Both solutions were lacking will allow us to migrate to the uation in branches even with-
in optimization results, man- newest RiOS 5.5.0.” out servers, and this all fully
ageability and implementation transparent to user.
transparency. When we Following the installation of
closed our test lab with the the 150 Steelhead appliances, The bank intends to remove
Riverbed appliances we were Raiffeisen has successfully servers from all 190 locations
impressed about the amazing removed 150 servers from and plans to install the
test results and the simple local branches and centralized remaining 40 Steelhead appli-
and effective implementation. the IT infrastructure to its ances in the following months.
So we only knew, that data center. The bank has It is also testing Steelhead
Riverbed would be the right experienced other benefits, Mobile for its consultants and
choice for us.” including simpler software mobile employees.In terms of
upgrades and reallocating IT other IT projects, Dr. Werth
“Riverbed was way ahead of staff from backing up data to says: “At the moment we’re
the competition and the clear other IT projects. about to set up a storage area
leader,” summarises Werth. networking infrastructure and
“The Riverbed Steelhead “The results have been great. we’re already looking at the
appliances were just easier to Bandwidth utilization has virtualisation technology as
implement and deploy. They’re been reduced by over 87 per- well.”
more transparent and techno- cent, CIFS traffic has been www.riverbed.com
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