Tatts wagers on Riverbed to deliver IT services

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:14

Business IT - Technology

According to Prior, adding WAN bandwidth would have been expensive and would not have solved the real problem of slow application performance,” and, he says, “the Riverbed Steelhead appliances have made our key applications run four times faster across our WAN, while using much less bandwidth than before.”

Prior also says that this has allowed Tatts to realise significant IT cost savings by halving its interstate WAN capacity, from 4 Mbps to only 2 Mbps.

“But to our users it certainly doesn’t feel like we did that – they see everything running much faster than before. Better yet, the level of user complaints about application performance has dropped markedly.”

Prior says the installation, undertaken by Riverbed and HP, was trouble-free, with all products installed quickly and immediately working smoothly.

“Deployment of WAN optimisation products from Riverbed has been a major success for us, boosting our network performance while saving the company money.”