Case Study: Leading IT Vendor achieves faster disaster recovery replication with Riverbed Steelhead 7050-L appliances

Riverbed Steelhead 7050 appliances solve replication challenges for leading IT vendor

Leading IT Vendor, a major global technology company with operations in more than 100 offices, needed to improve disaster recovery readiness without increasing IT costs. Its NetApp SnapMirror replication between East and West Coast data centers was slowed by bandwidth limits and latency, making it hard to meet recovery objectives.

Riverbed implemented Steelhead 7050-L appliances in the data centers to optimize replication traffic and improve SnapMirror performance. The result was an average 4:1 data reduction, peak throughput of 2 Gbps, and average throughput of 1.4 Gbps, allowing Leading IT Vendor to avoid a network bandwidth upgrade while gaining a scalable DR solution for future growth.