Benefits
One-third the cost of a traditional half-rack solution
Less IT support needed at remote sites; bandwidth upgrades avoided
Disaster recovery plan in place
IT framework in place for future expansion
Solution: SteelFusion appliances with VSP and WAN optimization
Between the cost of the additional bandwidth and the proposed half-rack of infrastructure, the IT improvements for the remote sites were looking to be very expensive. Vigil proposed a delay to give himself time to research other options.
From his IT partner, Trace3, Vigil learned of a simpler and more cost-effective approach to remote site architecture: SteelFusion appliances from Riverbed Technology. SteelFusion enables the consolidation of remote servers and storage while giving remote users local performance.
On-going data reductions of 40% to 60%
Office 365 migration time reduced by nearly 50%
Greater than 10x network performance improvement
Bandwidth upgrade costs reduced by two-thirds
Consistent availability of Microsoft Lync Enterprise Voice services
Less than 12-month ROI for 25 appliances and 2 software licenses
Solution: Riverbed WAN optimization and load balancing
One strategy for improving the performance of MTCAustralia’s new cloud-based solutions was to increase bandwidth. Ceran was going to have to do that anyway, to some extent, since many of the organization’s sites were served by underpowered connections. But the amount of bandwidth he would have needed to get the kind of performance he wanted was cost-prohibitive, and it wouldn’t have solved the problem entirely. To people who think they can just throw bandwidth at this situation, Ceran asks, “Do they understand latency?”