Federal Data Center Consolidation Playbook
This whitepaper features a case study of the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA’s) efforts to consolidate by reducing its 17 data centers to two primary data centers. Riverbed offers…
Read MoreData Center Consolidation Strategy Guide
ThunderCat and Knight Point can help your agency set up your data center consolidation and asset management strategy. You’ll find out how Knight Point’s unique consolidation tool,Hercules, can help you use the principles and…
Read More12 Best Practices For Data Backup and Recovery
Reliability. Up to 71% of restores from tape contain failures. Best Practice: Use disk-to-disk technology for backups. With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be…
Read MoreThe Viability of Indefinite Storage – Insights From Email Archiving
New storage technologies currently offer unprecedented capabilities for storing large amounts of data at low cost. At a time when legislation, legal precedent, and managerial best practices are calling for…
Read MoreWAN Optimization Requirements and Suggestions
This document proposes a list of suggested requirements and evaluation criteria for selection of a WAN Acceleration product that can be deployed robustly to support a large-scale enterprise network. While…
Read MoreThe Storage Management Lifecycle
Predictability, manageability, risk, cost efficiency, and alignment have always been key concerns of the IT executive. Today, with the rapid growth in enterprise storage and the various supporting technologies, the…
Read MoreA Joint Solution By Riverbed and Infoblox
In typical IT environments, most organizations maintain dedicated servers in remote offices for local delivery of core network services. These services include DNS, DHCP, and RADIUS that help ensure connectivity…
Read MoreRiverbed Steelhead Appliances Accelerate Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange 2003 has become the corporate standard in email, calendaring, and workforce productivity. As a result, significant time and IT resources go into creating a robust, reliable, high-performance Exchange…
Read MoreOptimizing Microsoft Exchange Traffic Over The Wan
Microsoft Exchange performs poorly on WANs, so much that large enterprises often deploy distributed Exchange servers to support their local users. As a result, maintaining Exchange servers is an expensive…
Read MoreNetApp’s Unified Storage Architecture
The traditional model for enterprise storage requires a different storage system for each storage function. One storage architecture might be deployed for primary network-attached storage (NAS), another for storage area…
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