Case Study: Consulting Firm achieves faster application performance and millions in savings with Riverbed SteelHead and SteelApp

Consulting Firm - Customer Case Study

A national professional services firm with a couple thousand employees and dozens of branch offices centralized applications and data in regional data centers, but found deadline-driven staff and clients experiencing poor performance over the WAN. Adding bandwidth made no difference, and a new Microsoft SharePoint client portal needed to be fast and flawless to support document delivery and client collaboration.

The firm deployed Riverbed SteelHead WAN optimization appliances and Stingray Traffic Manager (now SteelApp) as its application delivery controller. The solution cut WAN traffic dramatically (for example, about a 75% reduction in Exchange traffic), avoided millions in bandwidth costs, and delivered faster, more reliable application and portal performance—boosting end-user productivity, streamlining operations, and improving IT–developer collaboration.