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The Riverbed SteelHead integration with Wind River’s Titanium Server is designed to equip service providers with complete application visibility, optimization and control across software-defined wide area networks (WANs), resulting in superior application performance, reduced downtime, and an improved ability to meet and exceed service level agreements (SLAs) with their customers. Together, Riverbed and Wind River enable service providers to orchestrate SteelHead so that they can take advantage of SteelHead’s industry-leading WAN optimization capabilities including:

The company’s IT team supports 58,000 employees across 230 corporate offices in more than 80 countries, and is tasked with ensuring rapid access to centralized, business-critical applications. It also supports the firm’s industry-leading technology platforms such as RED, a comprehensive corporate data and analytics platform; 3D remote site selection tool Blackbird, smart building platform IntelliCommandSM, and an award-winning suite of property marketing technology-based tools.

The company’s IT team supports 58,000 employees across 230 corporate offices in more than 80 countries, and is tasked with ensuring rapid access to centralized, business-critical applications. It also supports the firm’s industry-leading technology platforms such as RED, a comprehensive corporate data and analytics platform; 3D remote site selection tool Blackbird, smart building platform IntelliCommandSM, and an award-winning suite of property marketing technology-based tools.

Because IT is critical but not an area of expertise for the company, CenterPoint Properties decided to transition its IT environment to the public cloud, starting with Microsoft Office 365 for email and office applications, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Azure. Scott Zimmerman, Chief Information Officer for CenterPoint Properties, explained, “Given the size of our company, having redundant data centers for our systems that require high availability didn’t make much economic sense for us. As such, we are leveraging the cloud, which has built-in geo-redundancy for the same price as hosting a single instance in our data center.”

Because IT is critical but not an area of expertise for the company, CenterPoint Properties decided to transition its IT environment to the public cloud, starting with Microsoft Office 365 for email and office applications, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Azure. Scott Zimmerman, Chief Information Officer for CenterPoint Properties, explained, “Given the size of our company, having redundant data centers for our systems that require high availability didn’t make much economic sense for us. As such, we are leveraging the cloud, which has built-in geo-redundancy for the same price as hosting a single instance in our data center.”

“As SAS has grown we have globalized our IT operations. While that means greater complexity, it also opens the opportunity to centralize and streamline application performance management. In the past, when application problems occurred, the IT team would try to recreate the issue and observe what was happening in real time,” said Doug Bradley, senior information systems engineer at SAS. “We wanted a solution that would speed results and support more efficient use of our resources.”

“As SAS has grown we have globalized our IT operations. While that means greater complexity, it also opens the opportunity to centralize and streamline application performance management. In the past, when application problems occurred, the IT team would try to recreate the issue and observe what was happening in real time,” said Doug Bradley, senior information systems engineer at SAS. “We wanted a solution that would speed results and support more efficient use of our resources.”

As the industry’s leading WAN optimization solution, Riverbed SteelHead helps organizations address the challenges of the cloud by enhancing visibility, optimization, and control of today’s hybrid WANs to maximize application performance and employee productivity while minimizing costs and complexity. The latest updates allow IT to deliver the best end-user experience for all applications with secure optimization across all networks, including the public Internet.

As the industry’s leading WAN optimization solution, Riverbed SteelHead helps organizations address the challenges of the cloud by enhancing visibility, optimization, and control of today’s hybrid WANs to maximize application performance and employee productivity while minimizing costs and complexity. The latest updates allow IT to deliver the best end-user experience for all applications with secure optimization across all networks, including the public Internet.

THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP is built on a foundation of technology innovation and operates a hybrid IT infrastructure. This includes product and order management, and warehouse logistics all deployed in multiple data centers, and accessed by staff from various locations. The Group sought to ensure that the platform could be integrated simply into the existing infrastructure so that every member of the technology team, from the CTO to system engineers, has access to the data they need, whenever they need it.