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Originally part of Thomson Reuters, in April 2011 BARBRI was sold to Leeds Equity Partners. With the transition to new ownership, BARBRI’s IT team had three months to set up an IT infrastructure that would support a number of public Web sites, including barbri.com (the bar review site), lawpreview.com (the law school prep site), aceds.org (the e-discovery site), and afcs.org (the financial crimes site). Barbri.com gets the most traffic, with between 40,000 and 50,000 people logged in concurrently during peak periods, like the twice yearly bar exam schedule.

“Today’s announcement offers breakthrough innovations, and Riverbed is now poised to do for cloud and SaaS applications what we’ve done for more than 1100 applications across the wide area network for the last decade,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed Chairman and CEO. “With these new solutions, Riverbed is continuing to deliver on our vision of enabling hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility.”

“Today’s announcement offers breakthrough innovations, and Riverbed is now poised to do for cloud and SaaS applications what we’ve done for more than 1100 applications across the wide area network for the last decade,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed Chairman and CEO. “With these new solutions, Riverbed is continuing to deliver on our vision of enabling hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility.”

As enterprises continue to move toward a hybrid model, they face a range of new performance challenges, including architectural complexity, distribution of resources across private and public data centers and blind spots for support, management and security. Now, by deploying Riverbed SteelApp and SteelHead in Azure, customers can take advantage of the cost-savings and agility of the cloud, while also solving the performance challenges: optimizing and accelerating the delivery of applications from Azure to business locations faster, using less bandwidth, and with greater security; and optimizing, accelerating and customizing web experiences and interactions.

As enterprises continue to move toward a hybrid model, they face a range of new performance challenges, including architectural complexity, distribution of resources across private and public data centers and blind spots for support, management and security. Now, by deploying Riverbed SteelApp and SteelHead in Azure, customers can take advantage of the cost-savings and agility of the cloud, while also solving the performance challenges: optimizing and accelerating the delivery of applications from Azure to business locations faster, using less bandwidth, and with greater security; and optimizing, accelerating and customizing web experiences and interactions.

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Veolia Water Technologies’ widely dispersed network created application performance problems for the company. Business-critical applications like ERP were delivered from the data center to global sites with patchy application performance, especially in Australia and Malaysia. Round-trip application delays on these routes impacted how well the apps worked locally. Opening the ERP app locally in Paris would take around three seconds, but in Australia it took about ten times longer. But solving the problems was challenging because it was difficult to get an end-to-end view of the network due to the involvement of different application and service providers.

Veolia Water Technologies’ widely dispersed network created application performance problems for the company. Business-critical applications like ERP were delivered from the data center to global sites with patchy application performance, especially in Australia and Malaysia. Round-trip application delays on these routes impacted how well the apps worked locally. Opening the ERP app locally in Paris would take around three seconds, but in Australia it took about ten times longer. But solving the problems was challenging because it was difficult to get an end-to-end view of the network due to the involvement of different application and service providers.

“Epic is, by far, the health system’s most widely used application, with between 2,700 and 3,500 concurrent users depending on the time of day,” said Chris Loughlin, Epic Client Systems Manager at Upstate University Health System. “Epic requires some form of load balancing – to handle the load as more people come online – to be able to apply updates without affecting users and to balance the traffic among Epic’s front-end and auxiliary applications.”

“Epic is, by far, the health system’s most widely used application, with between 2,700 and 3,500 concurrent users depending on the time of day,” said Chris Loughlin, Epic Client Systems Manager at Upstate University Health System. “Epic requires some form of load balancing – to handle the load as more people come online – to be able to apply updates without affecting users and to balance the traffic among Epic’s front-end and auxiliary applications.”