Case Study: Cognizant achieves 60% application performance improvement and 31% global WAN savings with Riverbed Steelhead

Multinational It Company Improves Employee Access to Applications with Riverbed Steelhead

Cognizant Technology Solutions, a global IT, consulting and BPO firm, faced slow application response times and growing WAN bandwidth demands as it centralized enterprise and web‑based applications and planned data‑center consolidation. With users distributed worldwide, the company needed faster, secure access and a solution that would preserve end‑user productivity during consolidation.

Cognizant deployed 40 Riverbed Steelhead appliances (including Steelhead Interceptor and various controller models) to accelerate encrypted MAPI and other enterprise workloads and optimize WAN traffic. The rollout delivered about 31% global WAN bandwidth savings, roughly 60% improvement in web‑based application performance, optimization of over 50% of data‑center traffic, and enabled data‑center consolidation without impacting user productivity.

Cognizant

V. Manohar

Senior Director - Network and Systems Services