| Tredent Data Systems, Inc., the leader in | | | | enhancements that WAN optimization and |
| wide area networking solutions, today | | | | application acceleration bring to corporate |
| announced that they have selected Riverbed's | | | | networks without having the huge capital |
| Steelhead platform, a highly scalable WAN | | | | outlay that normally comes with deploying an |
| acceleration solution, for a new Managed WAN | | | | enterprise wide WAN acceleration solution. |
| Acceleration Service or Solution as a Service | | | | This approach is allowing more businesses to |
| (SaaS). Riverbed's high-performance Steelhead | | | | take advantage of WAN optimization technology |
| platform enables Tredent's professional | | | | in their environment while only needing to |
| services staff to fine-tune network | | | | make low monthly payments during the term of |
| performance to improve application delivery | | | | the service. "Most customers are choosing to |
| and reduce bottlenecks. Tredent's new Managed | | | | make the term of the new Managed WAN |
| WAN Acceleration Service, which relies on | | | | Acceleration Service (SaaS) offering match |
| Riverbed's Steelhead platform, can help | | | | that of their current WAN circuit contract so |
| distributed enterprises to accelerate | | | | that they can make a decision on new |
| application delivery over the WAN, leverage | | | | technology or upgrades to existing technology |
| WAN investments and boost user productivity. | | | | when they are considering the renewal of |
| | | | their circuit contract" said Justin Lofton, |
| "We chose Riverbed Technology's | | | | senior systems engineer at Tredent Data |
| high-performance Steelhead platform for our | | | | Systems, Inc. |
| Managed WAN Acceleration Service because it | | | | |
| enhances application visibility and improves | | | | About Tredent Data Systems, Inc. |
| application response time and WAN | | | | |
| efficiency," said Charles Beck, vice | | | | Tredent Data Systems, Inc. is a leading |
| president of sales at Tredent Data Systems, | | | | provider of systems integration solutions and |
| Inc. "Riverbed is helping us to deliver on | | | | services to medium and large business |
| our commitment to offer a world-class | | | | customers worldwide. Combining unsurpassed |
| experience to our business customers. Their | | | | customer service with advanced technology and |
| platform offers significant scalability which | | | | professional service capabilities, Tredent |
| is enabling us to meet the needs of our | | | | Data Systems, Inc. delivers innovative and |
| multinational customers." | | | | unique business solutions to customers around |
| | | | the world. For more information, visit |
| The Steelhead platform improves application | | | | |
| performance over the WAN by recognizing and | | | | About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances |
| eliminating redundant transmissions; | | | | |
| accelerating TCP and application-specific | | | | Riverbed's WDS solutions enable organizations |
| protocols; prioritizing and allocating access | | | | with more than one office to overcome a host |
| to bandwidth; and ensuring high application | | | | of severe problems, including poor |
| availability at locations with various WAN | | | | application performance and insufficient |
| connections. The Steelhead application | | | | bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the |
| acceleration platforms work end-to-end with a | | | | performance of applications between |
| multitude of applications, including | | | | distributed sites by five to 50 times and in |
| Web-based (HTTP,HTTPS,FTP,SSL, etc), | | | | some cases up to 100 times between enterprise |
| client-server (CIFS, MAPI, SQL, Oracle, | | | | data centers and remote offices, Riverbed's |
| Email), custom software, voice and video. The | | | | award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable |
| platforms also include a broad set of | | | | companies to consolidate IT, improve backup |
| management tools for monitoring and reporting | | | | and replication processes to ensure data |
| on WAN optimization and application | | | | integrity, and improve staff productivity and |
| acceleration performance. | | | | collaboration. Steelhead appliances have been |
| | | | deployed in organizations ranging from the |
| The new Managed WAN Acceleration Service | | | | world's largest corporations with offices |
| (SaaS) offering will allow Tredent's | | | | around the globe to small companies with a |
| customers take advantage of the business | | | | couple of sites that are just miles apart. |