WAN Optimization
Many companies use WAN bandwidth optimization in order to cut costs and relieve network congestion. Champion's WAN Optimization solutions can reduce network utilization by up to 60-95%.
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Maximize Usage and Reduce Operating Expenses
Many enterprises use WAN bandwidth optimization in order to cut costs and relieve network congestion. But typical WAN optimization products only reduce network traffic by ten or twenty percent. In contrast, our solutions can reduce network utilization typically by 60 to 95%.
Data Streamlining provides better bandwidth optimization
Riverbed's WAN optimization solutions remove repetitive traffic from your WAN through patent-pending Data Streamlining algorithms. Data Streamlining stores your WAN traffic on disk in a proprietary, application-independent form that can be reused by any application, any file or any user that sends or receives the same data. Whether a client requests a file that has been renamed, emails an attachment or uses another application like FTP or a Web-based application, any traffic that is generated that has been across the network before will not be retransmitted.
More than just WAN optimization
- Delivers much more than reduced network traffic. Riverbed not only provides the best WAN optimization available today, but also provides solutions to improve the throughput of your applications - because it's more than limited network bandwidth that slows down your applications. Most vendors focused on WAN bandwidth optimization do not offer true application acceleration, which are different and distinct challenges.
Centralize Backup and Recovery
Today's enterprises must support employees and computer resources that are distributed throughout the world to meet demands of the global marketplace. When critical data is no longer hosted at just one physical location, the challenge of backing up and securing data is magnified. Consider the following:
- 51% of organizations believe that their current backup schedules leave data at risk in the event of loss. (source: Enterprise Strategy Group)
- Remote tape backup creates large data security and compliance risks
- Traditional approaches – involving deploying tape backup equipment and processes to each location hosting data, and hiring or contracting local resources to manage the backups – are a risky and costly proposition.
Network-based backup allows for consolidation of backup data into the data center, where it can be placed onto tape or other secondary storage media. Backed-up data is then more secure, and easily accessible in the event of a restoration. In many cases, disk-to-disk backup over the WAN becomes feasible with Riverbed using existing WAN connections without any bandwidth upgrades.
With Champion Solutions Group’s accelerating backup procedures, our customers have seen significant benefits:
- Reduced backup costs. Tape backup systems are no longer required in each remote office, saving between $5,000 and $20,000 for each remote office every three years.
- Simplified off-site media management and storage. By deploying Steelhead appliances, IT departments can consolidate off-site media management and storage through the centralized data center, saving money and easing compliance with security regulations.
- Reduced services costs. Steelhead appliances enable your company to easily backup remote servers to your own data center, where your own staff can reliably handle the data. Third party resources, which are a significant security risk, can be eliminated. On-site staff can be redeployed to strategic IT projects.
- Reduced hours spent on routine, manual processes. IT staff can tackle forward-looking strategic projects instead of spending so much time handling manual backup processes.
- Faster recovery of data. The cost of downtime continues to increase along with the value of information to businesses. Customers can enable faster recovery of their data in the face of failures, adding resiliency to IT operations and increasing the availability of data.
About Champion
Champion Solutions Group is an Independent Solutions Provider that specializes in solutions and services that reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve application availability for more than thirty years. Our solution offerings include Virtualization, Data Management, Business Continuity, Maintenance Consulting and Managed Services. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, Champion has office locations in these districts: Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, DC/Virginia/Maryland, Delaware Valley (Philadelphia / New Jersey), Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.