Case Study: Sentinel Real Estate Corporation achieves 20x application performance and avoids costly bandwidth upgrades with Riverbed Steelhead appliances

Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Improve Application Speed for National Real Estate Firm

Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, a 38‑year institutional real estate manager with about $5 billion AUM and 1,100 employees across 200 U.S. offices, depended on the web‑based Yardi property management system. Remote offices on cable Internet suffered high latency and slow application performance that crippled productivity and generated frequent user complaints.

After evaluating vendors, Sentinel deployed 200 Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its WAN; installation was simple and centrally managed. The appliances delivered an immediate ~20x improvement in application performance, avoided costly bandwidth upgrades, increased worker satisfaction and productivity, required minimal maintenance, and gave IT greater network visibility.

Sentinel Real Estate Corporation

Emile Rashkovich

Chief Information Officer