Dimension Data and Riverbed

Dimension Data and Riverbed

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Dimension Data and Riverbed

The performance of IT infrastructure and networks is one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today and improving performance ranks consistently as a top priority among Network Managers and CIOs. In today’s competitive business landscape, an optimally performing network is not a luxury, it’s a business imperative. A poor performing network is a drain on company resources; it slows productivity, frustrates employees, saps IT support capabilities, negates technology investments and, in essence, ceases to support business and starts to impede it.

However, many of the prevailing IT trends, including consolidation, virtualisation, mobility, collaboration and the explosion of data, can all make network performance increasingly difficult to manage as a result of seismic infrastructure changes and increasingly bandwidth hungry applications.

WAN optimisation and application acceleration technologies are very often the solution and can negate the need for costly bandwidth purchases through compression, data reduction and caching, traffic management and load balancing techniques which improve link and bandwidth utilisation.

“ Dimension Data has the significant depth of experience needed to understand complex IT performance challenges, allowing them to deliver and support robust solutions that address our joint clients’ requirements on a global basis.”

Dave Peranich, SVP Sales, Riverbed Technology

Challenges we address

• Significantly improve the performance of applications running over the network.

• Efficiently price, procure, ship and deploy optimisation solutions across a wide global footprint.

• Assist in reducing cost of running network infrastructure.

• Leading 24 x 7 maintenance, support and managed services globally ensuring optimal service through the lifespan of the solution.

• Market leading application performance management offerings to provide visibility into network traffic patterns and provide ongoing ability to ensure performance.

• Consultative sales approach that ensures the solution assists clients to achieve their business objectives.

• Innovative optimisation solutions that accelerate traffic for cloud computing applications and storage services.

• Deep networking and protocol skills in addition to data centre, unified communications and collaboration and Microsoft skills that are leveraged to get the best from the solution.

A compelling and complementary value propositionDimension Data uses Riverbed’s market leading optimisation and management technologies to deliver network performance solutions that ensure that your business is supported by optimal network performance and that your employees can be productive, agile and collaborative – at all times. Our system integration, support, managed services and operational expertise, coupled with Riverbed’s comprehensive performance portfolio, makes for a compelling value proposition. Clients can leverage the extensive benefits of improved performance from their IT infrastructure and rest assured that the project will be managed from conception to completion and that the solution can be supported and managed for the long-term.

Dimension Data and Riverbed

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Dimension Data Strengths Riverbed Strengths

Ability to conduct global business:

• Operations in more than 50 countries and an extended footprint in an additional 114 countries through our preferred partners.

• Sales teams conduct international business utilising a number of standard transaction models that are commercially efficient for the clients business.

• Our Supply Chain Services handle logistics, customs and excise and provide clients with portal to track all activity related to their orders.

• The International Project Office will handle the project management of all large rollouts to client satisfaction.

• Five Global Support Centres handle client support calls 24 x 7 across the world in 13 local languages and deliver service to flexible SLAs.

Comprehensive performance portfolio:

• Leading WAN optimisation technology reduces bandwidth utilisation up to 65-95% and accelerate applications up to 100x.

• Application-aware network performance management technology proven to reduce mean time to resolution by up to 83%.

• Virtual application delivery controller technology increases the reliability, security, and scalability of applications.

• Innovative cloud storage gateway technology simplifies, de-duplicates, encrypts and accelerates backup and archiving to the cloud.

• Enterprise-class web content optimisation technology dynamically optimises SharePoint and web applications for faster performance.

Deep performance engineering and system integration skills derived from nearly 30 years of delivering networks, coupled with strong capability in data centre solutions, converged communications and collaboration and Microsoft offerings.

Analyst-proven ROI, with a 6.9 month average payback period for Steelhead and 5.5 month average payback period for Cascade (Source: IDC)

Broad lifecycle of services that assists clients to plan, build, support, manage and improve their multi-vendor IT infrastructure.

Deep technology partnerships with application, storage, and cloud vendors.

Relationships with many global, multinational and large national enterprise and conducts business with 79% of Global Fortune 100 and 60% of Global Fortune 500.

Established company with over 13,000 customers, including three-quarters of the Fortune 100, over half a billion in revenue and no debt.

One of Riverbed’s largest global partners with significant ongoing investments in ability to deliver, support and manage Riverbed solutions.

Provide technologies that enable increased availability and disaster recovery, data centre and branch consolidation, cloud enablement, and mobility solutions.

Combined, Dimension Data and Riverbed assures you of significant improvements in your IT infrastructure performance, smooth deployment anywhere in the world and the best ongoing maintenance, support and managed services available.

Joint successesTowers Watson

Towers Watson, a leading global professional services firm, needed to optimise the performance of their global WAN. The challenge was deploying Steelhead appliances into 148 global locations in 39 countries together with the appropriate staging and installation services to pre-populate 147GB of desktop applications and security updates on each of these devices. Dimension Data provided all the necessary professional services and logistics services for successful worldwide deployment, and additionally provides ongoing maintenance, managed and monitoring services.

About Dimension DataBy continually building on our knowledge and expertise in IT infrastructure technologies, Dimension Data has become a global leader in the provision and management of specialist IT infrastructure services and solutions. Drawing on our 12,383 strong employee base, backed by a solid track record of 28 years, Dimension Data applies its expertise in networking, converged communications, security, data centre solutions, Microsoft and contact centre technologies with our unique skills in consulting, integration and managed services to create customised solutions that ensure our over 6,000 clients achieve their business goals.

About RiverbedRiverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualisation, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimise and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns with the business needs of the organisation.

For further information visit: www.riverbed.com

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