Case Study: Appleby achieves 12X faster SharePoint, 80% WAN replication reduction and $500K annual bandwidth savings with Riverbed SteelHead appliances

Appleby saves 00,000 annually with Riverbed® Steelhead® while accelerating its network performance

Appleby, a global provider of offshore legal, fiduciary and administration services with 800+ lawyers across numerous offshore and international offices, struggled with slow WAN performance, extremely expensive bandwidth at some locations, and a fragmented storage environment that made frequent disaster‑recovery replication prohibitively costly and complex.

By deploying Riverbed Steelhead appliances at each site, installing Compellent SANs and virtualizing offshore servers, Appleby now replicates every 15 minutes without adding bandwidth. The changes delivered over a 12× improvement in SharePoint page load times (from ~50s to <4s), roughly an 80% reduction in replication WAN traffic, more than $500,000 in annual bandwidth savings, reduced server costs and greater data‑center consolidation.

Appleby

Jack Fleming

IT Manager