EC News DeskHow the network delivers and handles applications has changed, and Riverbed was an early mover in approaching application acceleration from both the datacentre side and the client side; neither of which is a simple proposition.
Riverbed has worked to ensure that the acceleration technologies that Riverbed developed for the datacentre and the branch can also be implemented on AWS or Azure, accelerating the cloud, or placed in front of a SaaS application like Office365 or Salesforce. This bookends performance with acceleration in a real client-to-cloud approach.
“Riverbed has worked to ensure acceleration developed for the datacentre can also be implemented on AWS or Azure”
Riverbed SaaS Accelerator eliminates network inhibitors that impact the user experience of key SaaS apps such as Office 365 and Microsoft Teams Live Events and Stream Video, Salesforce, Box, ServiceNow and more. Riverbed SaaS Accelerator is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Riverbed’s SaaS acceleration solutions are purpose-built to facilitate fast, agile, secure delivery of SaaS applications to any user, anywhere, ensuring even the most far-flung and mobile employees stay productive and business continues.
“Riverbed SaaS Accelerator eliminates network inhibitors that impact the user experience of key SaaS apps.”
As an example, a large enterprise customer in North Africa realised that despite migrating to Office 365, issues with latency, congestion, and last-mile delays were restricting their ability to realise the full potential of their investment. To overcome this, the company deployed the Riverbed Accelerator for O365 which has optimised data transfer costs and speed across the enterprise.
Riverbed acceleration solutions also improved performance across the company’s email, CRM, and SAP applications which has resulted in a direct and positive influence on its operations.
The Middle East Network Transformation Survey, commissioned by Riverbed and conducted by IDC in 2020 highlighted that 71% of organisations believe cloud is crucial for their digital transformation. This study also revealed that 29% of organisations in the UAE and Saudi Arabia have already completed migration of workloads to the cloud.
“71% of organisations believe cloud is crucial for their digital transformation.”
This process is currently ongoing for a further 31% while an additional 20% of organisations will execute such migrations within the next two years.
It is clear then that migration and adoption of mission-critical cloud-based applications will be a key IT objective for businesses through 2021. And with business-critical services being delivered via the cloud, it is no surprise that 77% of respondents stated that it is very important for them to optimise connections to SaaS applications such as Microsoft 365 to ensure consistently good performance at all times.
Riverbed eliminates network inhibitors that impact user experience of O365, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Box, ServiceNow and is available on Azure.
