Case Study: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet achieves $900K+ annual savings, faster backups and improved data protection with Riverbed SteelFusion

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet - Customer Case Study

The Commonwealth of Kentucky faced persistent IT challenges supporting 64 remote offices across a large, rural state: slow, low‑bandwidth links (often T1 or 10 Mbps), high latency, and physical servers at the edge that caused failed backups, risked loss of irreplaceable project data, and produced costly, days‑long outages that hurt productivity.

Tier3 deployed Riverbed SteelFusion edge appliances to centralize data and virtualize remote servers, accelerate WAN performance, and prioritize critical traffic. Backups now complete reliably, outages are resolved quickly, and new servers can be provisioned in hours—delivering statewide savings of more than $900,000 per year (with the Transportation Cabinet alone saving roughly $573,000 annually), reduced hardware and bandwidth costs, and reclaimed IT resources for strategic projects.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Travis Wagers

Information Systems Manager