Case Study: Perma-Pipe ME achieves 5–7x faster application performance and 4x bandwidth capacity with Riverbed SteelHead

Riverbed Steelhead appliances improve application performance and employee productivity for manufacturing company

Perma-Pipe ME, a Gulf-region engineering firm that designs insulated piping systems with 350 employees and $50M in revenue, had consolidated applications to a Fujairah data center but found branch offices across the Gulf and in India were unable to reliably access Exchange and SQL-based systems. Limited WAN bandwidth also prevented rollout of a customized document-management system and centralization of backups, reducing productivity and creating data security concerns.

After testing WAN-optimization options, Perma-Pipe ME deployed Riverbed SteelHead appliances at its data center and branches, which delivered a 5–7x improvement in application performance and a 4x effective increase in bandwidth. This allowed company-wide rollout of the SQL-based document-management system, centralized backups to the data center, faster collaboration with the US office, measurable productivity gains, and an ROI within 12 months.

Perma-Pipe

Vishal Sood

Information and Technology Manager