This informative ESG Lab report examines the Riverbed Steelhead EX + GraniteT appliance, which delivers a powerful combination of wide area network (WAN) optimization, a virtual services platform, and innovative block-storage optimization to help organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally, while ensuring the performance required in remote and branch offices. Download this informative report now to find out how edge-VSI can improve your IT infrastructure.

In this report, Taneja Group explores how Riverbed Technology has identified a way to lower IT costs in branch offices. The new Steelhead EX + Granite appliance combines a "branch-office box" virtualized hardware platform with a first-of-its-kind block storage technology to allow consolidation of edge storage, servers, and applications to the data center. Download the report to learn how your organization can benefit.

This CIO article discusses how WAN optimization solutions, like those Riverbed Technology offers, can accelerate private cloud implementations and enable users to be productive, while helping to deliver the cost and management efficiencies businesses require. Read the informational story now and learn why companies like MasterBrand Cabinets chose Steelhead WAN optimization appliances for superior performance.

This white paper examines security considerations when using SIP trunks as a means of connecting Unified Communication Systems to the outside world.

E-mail archiving has become an increasingly important IT function, and SaaS-based solutions are rapidly gaining popularity among companies of all sizes. Enterprise Strategy Group reports on how companies are turning more and more to hosted email archiving.

Google Message Discovery, powered by Postini, is a secure, hosted service that provides enterprise-grade spam and virus protection as well as comprehensive email archiving for organizations looking for cost-effective email management. Learn how Google Message Discovery offers significant advantages over onsite server or media-based email archiving services.

Osterman Research conducted this study that outlines how and why cloud computing security and archiving is rapidly being adopted across the IT space for its ease of implementation, lower cost, and increased reliability. Learn how email archiving has become a critical "best practice" for organizations of all types and how the cloud model can provide a more effective email management solution.

Email archiving has fast become a critical best practice for organizations of all sizes; however, Osterman Research finds that only two out of every five companies actually have a structured archiving system. This white paper examines the drivers behind email archiving adoption and how to justify and explain its crucial worth to stakeholders. Learn how Google Message Discovery can help organizations remain secure, compliant, and responsive to email retrieval requests.

The 2010 Nemertes Report compares Top 11 IP Telephony vendors and provides independent insight into how well each vendor performs.

Measuring TCO is the best metric for determining the risks and benefits of any technology. This white paper provides guidance on how to effectively measure the TCO for a Unified Communications system and will provide the details you need to build a comprehensive RFP.

Reliability is a critical component of any business communication system. Learn about this cost-effective approach to enterprise-level availability.

Straight facts about IP telephony planning and deployment

Learn how your business can build the right foundation to achieve UC and other next-generation benefits.

The cause of IT complexity in business is clear. Learn how to identify and eliminate it.

This white paper discusses how an integrated unified communication and contact center solution can increase customer retention and significantly enhance the customer experience.

Constant phone service availability is crucial to today's businesses. Makers of traditional voice switches have developed systems that are available at least 99.999% of the time. Concerns that voice over IP (VoIP) may not offer this "five nine" availability has been one of the major impediments to convergence, but this should not be the case. The ideal IP telephony system is resilient and has no single point of failure. This white paper compares three different architectural approaches to implementing Voice over IP that aim - some more successfully than others - to deliver 99.999% availability. "When we implemented a new PBX at a branch office location from our legacy provider, we did not fully consider the impact of integrating systems with two different architectures. The result was separate systems that made it impossible to provide a seamless system across all locations." IT Director, Management Consulting Company

Reliability is the most critical aspect of a business phone system. IP telephony systems will deliver differing service levels because their architecture is fundamentally different. Ironically, optimal architecture and design does not only deliver high reliability, but also produces a system that is easy to use and manage. This whitepaper defines reliability and availability and then compares the approaches of various IP telephony vendors take to ensure high availability. You will see how the underlying system design and architecture dictate the type of redundancy that can be deployed to increase reliability.

Telephone system manageability depends to a great extent on the underlying architecture of the voice system. Some platforms are extensions of legacy voice switches, others are built on top of legacy data technologies, and still others were designed from the ground up for converged voice and data. The architectural approach for integrating new systems has serious implications for management, because the different components of the consolidated voice system-such as voicemail, network call routing, and client applications-are managed by different tools. In this paper you will learn more about how various architectural approaches impacts overall system manageability. "When we implemented a new PBX at a branch office location from our legacy provider, we did not fully consider the impact of integrating systems with two different architectures. The result was separate systems that made it impossible to provide a seamless system across all locations." IT Director, Management Consulting Company

Companies are frequently tied to expensive, complex, legacy telecommunications systems that don't support modern technologies and applications, such as unified communications. This white paper examines the challenges associated with legacy systems and how to achieve greater value and opportunities with IP-based technology.

IP telephony and Unified Communications are leading options for business phone systems. Understand the key issues involved in justifying, choosing and deploying the best UC system for your organization.

Discover how to provide quantifiable bottom-line proof to support a unified communications purchase.

Read the informational story now and learn why companies like MasterBrand Cabinets chose Steelhead® WAN optimization appliances for superior performance.

With the help of solutions from Riverbed Technology, Constangy, Brooks & Smith consolidated and virtualized many different servers, and eliminated the expense and difficulty of remotely managing hardware and software. Learn how you can too.

This whitepaper shows how you can finally meet your recovery objectives, provide seamless failover between multiple sites, improve remote application performance, and lower your ongoing bandwidth costs.

Cloud architectures. Remote access to big data. Application performance in an increasingly networked world. A renewed focus on DR/BC based on instant replication between multiple data centers. All are driving a need for more flexible WAN optimization that can be cost effectively deployed across both private and public networks.