Case Study: Media Markt achieves 4x faster backups and improved network visibility with Riverbed

Riverbed Technology enables backup and disaster recovery strategy, and network traffic visibility, at retail organization

Media Markt, Europe’s largest electrical goods retailer, expanded into Shanghai and planned rapid store growth across China. Because each store relies heavily on virtualized IT and daily transaction data is backed up over a low‑bandwidth 2 Mbps WAN link to the data center, the company needed a scalable backup and disaster‑recovery strategy plus better visibility into network and application traffic to avoid slow, latency‑affected backups and unseen performance problems.

Media Markt deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances at stores and the data center and Riverbed Cascade in the data center to optimize WAN transfers and monitor network behavior. Backups that previously took hours now complete in under 30 minutes (a fourfold reduction), and Cascade’s visibility let IT quickly identify and stop a disruptive mass update, demonstrating faster problem resolution and a solution that can be scaled to each new store.

Media Markt

John Erik Horn

Director of IT Sourcing and Infrastructure Solutions