Case Study: VTB Bank achieves 62% traffic reduction and faster application performance with Riverbed SteelHead

VTB Bank has increased the performance of applications and employees with the help of Riverbed Steelhead

VTB Bank, a major Russian commercial bank with state participation and one of the country’s largest by assets and capital, rolled out automated, centralized workflows across its branches and saw a sharp rise in WAN traffic. With 57 servers in Moscow and 57 in the regions and most inter-branch traffic routed through Moscow, network congestion degraded business-critical application performance and employee productivity.

VTB deployed Riverbed’s Application Performance platform—SteelHead CX appliances, SteelHead Interceptor and SteelCentral/CMC—to optimize and accelerate applications. The solution reduced data transferred by 62%, freed bandwidth for critical and multimedia applications (including over satellite links), improved application responsiveness and employee productivity, and lowered the need for costly bandwidth increases.

VTB Bank

Dmitry Nazipov

Senior VP, Head of IT Department