Fleet management firm LeasePlan is improving application
response times and has consolidated data back-up with a system from
Riverbed Technology.
LeasePlan upgraded its wide-area network (Wan) as part of a
global project to rationalise its network operation to a single
service provider.
The end goal was to improve the performance of applications over
the network and deliver cost savings to the organisation.
Unfortunately, the outcome did not yield such results, so the IT
team were forced to look elsewhere to satisfy their application
performance improvement needs.
LeasePlan's IT reseller, Redstor, recommended Riverbed
Technology. After a consultation and trial period with the Riverbed
Steelhead appliances, LeasePlan UK installed Steelhead products at
each of its four UK locations.
Upon activation, LeasePlan recognised a 10 times performance
improvement in application response times, particularly for
Microsoft office applications, and cut its Wan-based backup and
update process from 1.5 hours to 20 minutes.
"The Riverbed Steelhead appliances do 'what it says on the tin,'
the installation was quick and simple and the results were
noticeable almost instantaneously," said Andy Hussey, IT
infrastructure architect at LeasePlan UK.
"We needed a solution that would allow our employees to share
information across the four UK sites. The Riverbed installation has
effectively increased our network capacity by up to five times,
with speed of document access increasing substantially," said
Hussey.
