EC News DeskRiverbed has added new cloud-based offerings into its arsenal of Riverbed Application Acceleration Solutions, all specifically built to help significantly accelerate and provide a consistent user experience for Microsoft collaboration, productivity and video streaming applications. As companies continue to provide broader flexibility for employees to work from anywhere, organisations can run Riverbed’s flexible SaaS offerings to optimise performance and productivity for SaaS apps across multiple office locations and for remote users regardless of location, bandwidth or latency.
Riverbed SaaS Accelerator
The release of SaaS Accelerator will provide new support for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Stream live events and on-demand video, delivering increased performance for the best experience for users in any office, accessing video from any device. Microsoft has seen an explosive growth in collaboration and video applications, with Teams reporting more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day and over 75 million daily active users, with two-thirds of users having shared, collaborated, or interacted with files on Teams. SaaS Accelerator eliminates the networking headaches inherent with corporate video communications with an enterprise-class SD-eCDN that can be deployed in minutes, reducing up to 99% of video data from corporate networks, enhancing the overall user experience. The SaaS Accelerator Manager delivers comprehensive analytics for network teams and event owners, including bandwidth savings, quality of experience, reach, viewing duration and more.
Riverbed SaaS Accelerator, a fully cloud-based service, enables enterprises to ensure fast, consistent performance and user experience as demand for always-available enterprise SaaS applications continues to grow, and now scales to meet the needs of the largest enterprises in the world to support 50,000 concurrent users per accelerated app. In addition to adding new support for Microsoft Teams and Stream, SaaS Accelerator now also supports Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Additionally, Riverbed SaaS Accelerator continues to accelerate and boost the performance by up to 10x of other top enterprise collaboration applications: including Microsoft O365 apps–SharePoint, Exchange, Office WebApps; Salesforce; ServiceNow; Box and Veeva; and also integrates with any Riverbed client or branch endpoint for mobile and branch employees. Lab and real-world testing have also continuously shown up to a 99% data reduction for global file sharing with Microsoft applications such as SharePoint and OneDrive to maximise network efficiency.
Riverbed Accelerator for O365
The new Riverbed Accelerator for O365 is the first, end-to-end cloud service that maximises Microsoft O365 performance for dynamic, global workforces and can be deployed in an instant without any hardware or endpoints. For enterprise application and end user services teams supporting strong usage of Microsoft O365 for file sharing across mobile workforces, this frictionless SaaS offering integrates acceleration for SharePoint, OneDrive and Office WebApps with a mobile client and can be deployed instantly anywhere in the world, making it simple and scalable solution.
Riverbed application acceleration services
Riverbed application and acceleration solutions are part of the company’s Network and Application Performance Platform, which enables organisations to maximise performance and visibility for networks and applications. These solutions include the new frictionless service, Riverbed Accelerator for O365, the flexible Accelerator service, as well as Client Accelerator and Cloud Accelerator offerings. SaaS Accelerator is a purpose-built, cloud-based solution, designed to ensure consistent performance of leading enterprise SaaS applications, such as Microsoft O365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Box, now adding support for Microsoft Teams and Stream Live Events and On-Demand Video with a built-in eCDN, Dynamics CRM and more, delivering an average 10x increase in performance. Riverbed Client Accelerator delivers leading-edge application acceleration to mobile workers anywhere, eliminating the unpredictability of dynamic network conditions that impede performance.
“With the overwhelming industry shift to SaaS applications and expected growth in hybrid work environments long-term even after Covid-19, there is a surge in enterprises using collaboration suites such as Microsoft O365 and leveraging video communications with Microsoft Teams and Stream for global employee engagement and collaboration. While these tools help companies to quickly scale and connect workforces that may be working from anywhere, in or outside the office, the value enterprises are able to achieve from these SaaS investments can be limited by the networks that connect us,” said Dante Malagrino, Chief Development Officer at Riverbed. “Riverbed’s Application Acceleration Solutions are flexible to suit the varying needs of today’s enterprises, and can be deployed immediately to augment the most popular Microsoft application suites and relieve the IT pain and productivity slowdowns caused by network latency, data congestion and overall connectivity.”
