When Rayonier decided to spin off Rayonier Advanced Materials, Rayonier’s director of IT operations, David Nettles, was tasked with creating a separate IT environment for the new company. Based on the parent company’s experience, a key requirement in choosing a cloud vendor was that they use SteelHead to accelerate app delivery from the cloud. “In setting up the Rayonier Advanced Materials environment, we knew we couldn’t do it without SteelHead,” said Nettles. “Bandwidth is very expensive in some of the places we operate, two to three times as much as it would be in a big city. Without SteelHead, we’d end up with extremely high network costs. So one of our requirements in picking a cloud provider was that we could install our SteelHead appliances there.”