FACEOFF – Software vs. Appliance WAN Optimization Solutions
- Produced by Riverbed

Make every dollar count: In an uncertain economic climate, this edict has challenged IT leaders to implement projects that increase business performance and security. Mobility, consolidation, virtualization, and disaster recovery are all fighting for resources at a time when they have never been more critical.

Increasingly, organizations have relied upon software and appliance WAN optimization solutions to take projects from spec to production cost-effectively, but with budget consideration as significant as project objectives, which product is the best fit for your firm: software or appliance?

Riverbed Technology is excited to bring the battle between hardware and software WAN optimization products from your IT planning meeting to the Web, as it pits Steelhead Appliance Sr. Product Marketing Manager Nik Rouda against Steelhead Mobile Software Product Marketing Manager Joe Ghory in a faceoff to resolve--once and for all--which solution is best.

This Webcast Battle Royale will be settled in three rounds:

• Round 1: How does your WAN optimization solution enhance major IT projects like consolidation, virtualization, mobility, and disaster recovery?
• Round 2: Fact or Fiction: All WAN optimization products are not created equally. If it's a fact, what distinguishes yours?
• Round 3: Head to Head: Steelhead Mobile vs Steelhead Appliance

We look forward to an informative session and to crowning the first ever WAN Optimization Champion of the World!

Thursday, January 15th - 11 a.m.(pst)/ 1 p.m. (est)

Kisdata & Riverbed Technology - Wide Area Data Services
- Produced by Riverbed

New Strategies for Optimising WAN Performance

More applications, more data, more users, more offices More of everything means more people relying on your WAN to perform better than it has ever performed before. Are you ready for the challenge?

Learn how wide-area data services (WDS) can give your company the edge that lets all of your employees work as if they were in the same office. With WDS, you can accelerate enterprise applications typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times to remote offices, providing LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout your enterprise. This can be done without expensive upgrades to your bandwidth and routers, making you a hero in the eyes end-users and the board too.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

• Knowledge of how WDS can boost productivity and performance in remote offices in ways that additional bandwidth can't do
• Insight into the technical underpinnings of WDS and different approaches to the WAN performance problem
• Case studies applying WDS to problems as diverse as collaboration, IT consolidation, backup, and datacenter replication
• Strategies to deploy high-ROI projects based on WDS technology

Thursday, 29th January - 10:00 a.m. GMT

Thursday, 26th February - 10:00 a.m. GMT

Thursday, 26th March - 10:00 a.m. GMT