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One customer was faxing documents back and forth rather than waiting for slow Microsoft SharePoint® downloads. It's not SharePoint's fault; it's often other factors outside SharePoint involving the network. Fact is, people will drop any technology like a hot brick when the WAN slows the end-user experience.

But it does not have to be that way because Riverbed products give users the SharePoint experience they need to be productive.

Think Centralized SharePoint
We are not talking about a distributed environment in which each branch needs additional hardware and in-branch IT talent—not to mention the unavoidable complexity involved. Instead, you can get a centralized SharePoint deployment with the performance of a local setup. For that you will need a performance platform from Riverbed.

So without further ado, here are the steps for giving your users a faster, happier SharePoint deployment.

Step 1: Know what is on your SharePoint network and who is using what
Riverbed Cascade®

Start by building an accurate picture of your SharePoint landscapes. That is, understand what and who is on your networks. Cascade accomplishes this with an unrivaled speed and top-to-bottom accuracy.

• •Discover all hosts in 2- and 3-tier SharePoint farms
• •Map dependencies between web, app, and data tiers
• •Identify which users are connecting to which hosts

In addition to providing visibility into network performance to resolve users' SharePoint performance complaints, Cascade can help accelerate SharePoint deployment and re-architecture projects, while reducing outage risks and failed cutovers. Within a few hours, Cascade can discover all systems, identify server and client dependencies and locations, and show the information in a graphical, interactive format.

For more steps, click here!

Learn more about Riverbed for Microsoft SharePoint

Shannon Martin / Product Marketing Manager / 480-794-3973

Direct link: http://www.avnetadvantage.com/Riverbed-Technology/new/#9157-30
Posted on April 30, 2012 Read Less ↑

Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies
Networks are complex but your management of them shouldn't be if you have the proper tools and techniques. A new book by the publishers of the acclaimed Dummies series offers 44 pages packed with insights, tips and tons of examples for wresting control of your unruly network.

Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies is a FREE e-book.

What you will learn:
Getting from dashboards to packets—fast, pg. 13
Putting analytics to work for you, pg. 17
Ten benefits of implementing a network monitoring and troubleshooting solution, pg. 31
Improved IT productivity, pg. 35
Evaluating network monitoring and troubleshooting solutions, pg. 37
And more!

Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting with Riverbed Cascade
The book's insights are illustrated with examples featuring Riverbed Cascade. Cascade is a best-of-breed application-aware network performance management solution for discovering, monitoring and troubleshooting the performance of your critical applications on the network.

Unlike the packets-first monitoring approach used by most network performance management systems, Cascade provides top-down visibility into application performance over the network. Cascade integrates automated application discovery with advanced behavioral analytics to build a services dashboard that provides at-a-glance visibility into end-to-end application health. Contextual drill down enables the seamless transition from these business-level views to transaction and packet-level analysis, accelerating troubleshooting by as much as 83 percent, according to IDC.

The elegant and simple design deploys easily in complex environments. It is the only performance management solution to combine flow data and packet data into a single logical data store. That results in a cleaner architecture with superior visibility, management and troubleshooting—saving you both capital and operational expenses.

Get your FREE book today!

Shannon Martin / Product Marketing Manager / 480-794-3973

Direct link: http://www.avnetadvantage.com/Riverbed-Technology/new/#9121-30
Posted on April 23, 2012 Read Less ↑

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) users rejoice! Riverbed loves all traffic—including the bandwidth busting kind like UDP. If you use UDP to move large files across the WAN, Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances can drastically reduce your bandwidth.

“In lab tests we were able to achieve up to 90% reduction in UDP traffic bandwidth, depending upon traffic and bandwidth conditions.” – Riverbed

UDP-based applications benefit from the new Packet Mode Optimization feature now included with Steelhead appliances that run RiOS® 7.0 (Riverbed Optimization System). This is tremendously useful for UDP-based bulk data transfer (TFTP) and data replication products such as Symantec Veritas Volume Replicator, Aspera, and Signiant.

Examples: Extremely large files
UDP is great for organizations that replicate extremely large files from one location to another, especially one-time transfers. For example, many film production companies use UDP to send large video files for post-production from one location to another. Another classic UDP example is disaster recovery. In both cases the bandwidth load is significant.

How Steelhead appliances reduce UDP bandwidth
The new Packet Mode Optimization feature optimizes and deduplicates data on a packet-by-packet basis.

In a nutshell the process works like this:

• 1. A Steelhead appliance intercepts the UDP packet. It then builds a tunnel through which the UDP traffic will travel to the destination's remote Steelhead appliance.
• 2. At the destination, the remote Steelhead appliance de-encapsulates the UDP traffic, rebuilds the original data stream, and forwards the traffic to the destination in the original traffic encapsulation.

For more Information on How to get Packet Mode Optimization
click here!

Shannon Martin / Product Marketing Manager / 480-794-3973

Direct link: http://www.avnetadvantage.com/Riverbed-Technology/new/#9120-30
Posted on April 23, 2012 Read Less ↑