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Tim Berners-Lee
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Oscar Wilde
"At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help."
Vinton Cerf, Google
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Bill Gates, Microsoft
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Steve Jobs, Apple
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Linus Torvalds, Linux
The term Wide Area Data Services encompasses more than file servers across the WAN - Wide Area File Services, WAN Optimization, and Application Acceleration are core WDS services. Citadel Perimeter has partnered with the leader in WDS –Riverbed Technology. Riverbed’s goal: To provide LAN like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise network, enabling real-time collaboration for users in branch offices and mobile worker all over the world. A typical enterprise has a heterogeneous mix of data and applications moving across its network to remote sites. Riverbed creates efficiently distributed enterprise data flow with completely centralized IT infrastructure.
KEY BENEFITS
Eliminates 60% to 98% of WAN traffic
Optimizes all WAN traffic, both TCP and UDP
Enables transparent deployment and centralized management
Improves Microsoft Exchange email attachment transmission by up to 54x and reduce traffic by up to 97%
Optimal encryption of traffic between Riverbed appliances – standards included are AES128, 192 and 256 bit
KEY STATISTICS
According to a BPM report, 75% of businesses see increases in remote workers, while 50% of businesses have missed business opportunities because of slow communications.
In a recent IDC survey of 12 companies of different sizes that had deployed Riverbed Technologies, on average, companies achieved IT budget savings of $46,719 per 100 users in hardware, software, and bandwidth costs.
In the same study, IDC found increased productivity time of 7.4% or 10.6 hours annually.
IDC also found that companies were able to reduce the number of users supported by each full-time IT employee by 5% which translated into average annual savings of $4,848 per 100 users.
The growth in mobile office workers is putting tremendous demands on IT as it struggles to deliver real-time performance to mobile staff.
