A not-for-profit organisation has had its recently implemented cloud infrastructure accelerated with Riverbed technology.
Sydney-based employment services provider MTC Australia recently shifted its ICT infrastructure to a private cloud, with Microsoft Office 365 and Lync rolled out late last year. The extra network traffic meant something needed to be done.
"We wanted to move everything we could to the cloud," said MTC CIO Branko Ceran. "And needed to make this move without impacting application performance for employees."
Optus Business was the integrator for the network performance work but declined to comment.
Branko said the Riverbed intervention has resulted in performance gains, as well as delaying the need for a physical bandwidth upgrade.
"We have accelerated application delivery up to 300 percent, resulting in sub-second response times for Office 365, which is located in a data centre 4,000 miles away," he said. "We have also been able to reduce bandwidth upgrade costs by two-thirds."
A Riverbed statement said that the Steelhead and Stingray solutions were "installed nationally across 28 offices and two data centres in less than a month".
The San Francisco-headquartered vendor claims software-as-a-service can be "delivered up to 33x faster while using 97 percent less bandwidth" with its technology and that globally "over one million users" of Microsoft Office 365 have so far been accelerated.
Globally, controversy has recently plagued Riverbed. Last week, a court ruled that Steelhead infringed patents held by rival Silver Peak, and last month a US investment firm alleged Riverbed misled shareholders and unreasonably ignored buyout offers.
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