Thanks for the info. They claim to conserve over 50% bandwidth but I have a feeling that would only be in an optimal environment where their deduplication services would be of the best use. If anyone else has more info I'd be glad to hear it. Thanks!
Ray On Feb 24, 4:09 pm, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Raymond <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I just recently heard about Riverbed Technologies (http:// > >www.riverbed.com) and was wondering if anyone has had any experience > > or information regarding their company and solution. One of my clients > > had mentioned it and I've had no past experience with them. > > > They seem to sell a WAN Optimization service. Looking a little further > > into it it seems they use deduplication mostly. Does anyone have > > experience or opinions about this? Thanks! > > > Raymond Beaudoin > > We used it at my last job: a company with locations in Asia, Europe, > US, and Mexico. As far as I could tell, it's a caching proxy with a > client side software. It's pretty good at conserving your bandwidth, > especially if you have multiple people at a location trying to access > the same files over the network. > > The software was reasonably stable. We only had a few (rare) issues > with it using up the cpu for no reason. > > I don't know anything about the pricing, and I don't have any numbers > on how much bandwidth it actually saved us, although there is some > sort of graphing mechanism built in if you want to track your stats. > > -- > Don Delp > 618.616.2993http://nesman.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
