Case Study: KLX Aerospace achieves 99.7% on-time deliveries and global application performance with Riverbed SteelHead, SteelFusion & SteelCentral

KLX - Customer Case Study

KLX Inc., a global leader in aerospace fasteners, consumables and logistics (and provider of oilfield services), needed to build a new IT environment after spinning off from its parent. With 110 facilities, nearly 4,000 employees and 800,000 SKUs supporting critical 4-hour to 20-minute SLAs, KLX faced challenges ensuring consistent application performance over a hybrid WAN, protecting data in remote sites, understanding software dependencies, and controlling infrastructure costs.

Working with Tier3, KLX deployed Riverbed solutions—SteelCentral for end-to-end visibility, SteelHead and SteelHead SaaS for WAN optimization, SteelFusion for branch data consolidation, and SteelScript for customization—delivered as a managed service. The result: centralized apps perform well worldwide, remote sites are no longer at risk of data loss, on-time deliveries rose to 99.7%, and KLX avoided an estimated $1–1.5 million in infrastructure costs.

KLX

Jack Ortman

Managing Director