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Riverbed to Showcase WAN Optimization Leadership at Interop Las Vegas 2009

By Larry Chaffin on Thu, 05/14/09 - 9:18am.
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Riverbed Executives and Customers Drive Industry Discussions on IT Infrastructure Performance; Riverbed Cascade Exclusive Performance Monitoring Tool for the Conference -- Live in the Interop NOC

 

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that it will participate as an exhibitor at Interop Las Vegas 2009 taking place May 17 - 21 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. In addition, Riverbed® industry experts will lead discussions surrounding IT infrastructure performance, including the evolution of application delivery, next-generation data centers and the competitive landscape of WAN optimization solutions. Attendees can visit Riverbed at booth #1359, and can learn more about the conference at http://www.interop.com/.

Interop is the leading business technology event series. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. At the Riverbed booth, attendees will hear from customers who will discuss their real-world experiences with Riverbed WAN optimization solutions, and connect directly with Riverbed Technology Alliance partners, including Crescendo Networks, Infoblox, Netscout, OPNET, and more.

As part of this year's show, Interop will demonstrate technology at work and give attendees the opportunity to speak with operators who are hands-on with the products in the Interop NOC. Riverbed will deploy its Riverbed Cascade Profiler in a live environment as the exclusive performance monitoring tool for the conference. Riverbed Cascade appliances analyze network traffic to provide valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications and systems.

Conference keynotes and sessions will focus on the recent surge of IT innovation and how it can help enterprises cut costs, get closer to customers and increase revenue. Riverbed executives will lead discussions at several conference sessions:

 

CIO BootCamp

Who:   Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing and alliances, Riverbed

When:  Monday, May 18, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Where: Room: South Seas F

Why:   Mr. Saldich will co-present with a Riverbed customer to discuss the

       major network integration and consolidation of 64 sites that

       followed a corporate merger, and how the customer doubled available

       bandwidth while simultaneously reducing data network operating

       expenses by more than 20 percent. The presentation will also provide

       details on how Riverbed WAN optimization enabled the company to

       slash replication times and reduce transfer times of 12 Gigabyte

       files from five hours to 30 minutes, providing a significant

       competitive advantage.

 

Keynote Panel: Reinventing the Data Center

Who:   Dr. Mark Stuart Day, chief scientist, Riverbed

When:  Wednesday, May 20, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Where: Ballroom: Mandalay Bay H

Why:   New requirements, new architectures and new constraints are creating

       a new order inside the data center. Our panel of experts will debate

       the effects of virtualization and high-speed networking as they

       describe the shape of things to come and what users need to do to

       prepare for the next generation of data center solutions.

 

Conference Session: A Comparison of WAN Optimization Controllers

Who:   Apurva Dave, senior director of product marketing, Riverbed

When:  Tuesday, May 19, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Where: Room: Breakers E

Why:   The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and

       access applications over relatively low-speed and high-latency WANs.

       This use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. To

       mitigate the impact of the WAN on application performance, many

       vendors have developed a solution referred to as a WAN Optimization

       Controller (WOC). In this PowerPoint-free session, leading WOC

       vendors will be asked questions to identify the similarities and

       differences between their products.

 

Conference Session: The Future of Application Delivery

Who:   Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing and alliances, Riverbed

When:  Thursday, May 21, 11:30 am - 12:30 p.m.

Where: Room: Breakers E

Why:   A couple of years ago, it was common to equate application delivery

       to network and application optimization. However, ensuring

       successful application delivery requires that IT organizations do

       more than just implement optimization techniques. It also involves

       planning, management and control that extends to a wide range of IT

       disciplines, not just networks. As a result, most of the application

       delivery vendors have begun to develop expertise in other areas,

       including security, storage and management. In this session, leading

       vendors will outline their divergent views on the future of

       application delivery.

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Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN Acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security and a Riverbed reseller. Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009 and is looking forward to the 2010 awards in Las Vegas.

Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:

, , , ,,, , , , ,  and author of , along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.

Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years or experience. Pluto Networks is a channel partner of Cisco, ProCurve, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec. 

 

 

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