Case Study: International Herald Tribune achieves 24/7 production availability and end-to-end IT visibility with Riverbed Cascade

Riverbed Cascade Gives the International Herald Tribune the Inside Scoop on its IT Infrastructure

The International Herald Tribune (IHT), part of The New York Times Company, produces and distributes time-sensitive news from 1,200 correspondents across 37 bureaus to readers in 180 countries and 36 regional print presses. To meet unforgiving daily deadlines the IHT rebuilt a fully automated production and distribution system, but needed complete visibility into its WAN and application delivery path to prevent any disruption that could halt production or subscriber services.

IHT deployed Riverbed Cascade (now SteelCentral) to gain an end-to-end view of traffic and dependencies from servers to desktops. Cascade mapped critical assets, enabled infrastructure changes (including rebuilding two metro networks and the Paris LAN) without disrupting 24x7 operations, and provided proactive alerts, faster troubleshooting, bandwidth usage insight and threat detection. The result was improved performance and availability of the automated system, reduced operational risk, and better IT-driven business decisions.

International Herald Tribune

Christophe Duprat

IT Director