Case Study: Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas achieves 20–30% faster Citrix performance and 70–80% faster DR replication with Riverbed SteelHead

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas - Customer Case Study

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, a full‑service Indian law firm with 630 employees (450 lawyers) across seven offices, was seeing slow, inconsistent performance for Citrix XenApp–hosted applications after HQ expansion ramped up bandwidth use. Branch and mobile users experienced delays in tasks like printing, scrolling PDFs and typing email, causing end‑user complaints and lost productivity.

The firm deployed Riverbed SteelHead for data center‑to‑branch and branch‑to‑branch optimization and Riverbed Client Accelerator for remote users, tuning Citrix ICA and adding end‑user visibility. This delivered 20–30% better Citrix performance, 70–80% faster DR data replication, roughly 25% lower bandwidth consumption, far fewer user complaints and an estimated productivity gain of about 12 minutes per employee per day.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas

Shams Khan

Head, IT Infrastructure and Information Security