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Riverbed Introduces LTE/Wi-Fi Enabled Enterprise SD-WAN

The Application Acceleration portfolio has expanded its power and flexibility with the addition of three new enterprise SD-WAN appliances: EX-385, EX-485, and EX-685. Ideal for Int…

15 Surprising Stats on the Shift to Remote Work due to COVID-19

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, “work from home” has rapidly escalated from one of many remote work options to “the remote work option.” For IT professionals, this means enab…

The Golden Age of Spear Phishing

I get it, everybody is working from home, and it is changing things on the network. The limits of VPNs have been pushed, stretched, and exceeded. Video conferencing systems have sh…

The Key to Telework Productivity: Accelerated Network and Application Performance

As the world adjusts to our new normal, we find ourselves at a crossroads with complications and difficulties never faced before. As government agencies pivot their workforces to m…

Your Workforce is Working at Home. What Now?

Organizations around the world are grappling with exactly how to slow the spread of COVID-19. As they implement stringent measures designed to combat the virus and protect citizens…

Using SD-WAN Templates for Simplicity, Scale, and Cost Effectiveness

Changing market dynamics require businesses to embrace digital transformation and to adopt new technologies that improve productivity and customer experience and reduce costs. Ente…

11 Ways to Ensure Network Performance, Visibility and Security for Work-From-Home Users

According to Gartner, 43% of U.S. workers spend some of their time working remotely and there’s a high proportion of work being done outside the traditional corporate office in Fin…

5 Ways to Reduce Hybrid Cloud Complexity

How can you manage multi-cloud complexity in today’s distributed environments? A common approach–using disparate cloud vendor tools–is often complex. Each vendor tool was designed …

Add Visibility to Your SteelHead to Optimize Network Performance

For some reason, whenever I think about how Riverbed NPM and SteelHead WAN Optimization can work together to provide better visibility into optimized network performance, the Johnn…

Building an SD-WAN Headend

When working with SteelConnect EX an important concept to understand is that of a SD-WAN headend. You simply cannot operate a SteelConnect EX SD-WAN network without the headend. We…

SD-WAN Data Center Integration

We continue our learning journey on Application Acceleration, Riverbed’s Enterprise SD-WAN offering. This time, we are going to address one of the hottest and most complex topics w…

Five Must-Haves for Unified Network Performance Management (NPM)

We’re all used to the back and forth: integrated platform or standalone, best-of-breed? “Tools that can correlated multiple classes of network data are more effective in all NPM (n…