Steelhead Reviews

We use Riverbed Steelhead devices for WAN optimization, which saves us considerable money on our international bandwidth. It's particularly beneficial for optimizing bandwidth while connecting internationally between multiple international DCs.

Steelhead has drastically improved user experience. Users, even those far from the server location, experience performance as if the applications were locally hosted. This has optimized our MPLS bandwidth usage and overall network performance without requiring upgrades.

Our major use case involves optimizing data replication between the primary and backup data centers in a banking system. Typically, banks have multiple data centers, and they replicate data for backup and disaster recovery. Using Steelhead devices between these centers helps in optimizing bandwidth, which is crucial as dedicated fiber and bandwidth can be expensive.

The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities.

The tool is useful as an optimization tool, especially in scenarios with limited bandwidth, like intra-connecting sites. It optimizes WAN traffic so that critical traffic gets priority and is optimized, preventing the bandwidth from being exhausted too quickly.

One of our most valuable features is Steelhead's cloud migration optimization. Moving to the cloud helped optimize our workflow, improving performance for end-users.

In terms of data optimization, the key benefit is the optimization itself, as it can result in significant improvements. With Steelhead, you can achieve up to a 25% optimization rate. For example, instead of passing one terabyte of data via one link, Steelhead can bring it down to as fast as 300. So, in terms of cost-benefit analysis, you realize many benefits.

Using Steelhead provides several benefits to the company. Firstly, it makes the client application easier to use. Additionally, it helps optimize costs by reducing bandwidth requirements.

The data reduction was fantastic, saved the company I was working for at the time a lot of time and money in upgrading circuits.

Management of the device is simple, but has all the technical aspects of a powerful appliance.

Enabled the company I was working for then the opportunity to centralise file storage, which reduced the cost of Windows server licenses by a massive amount. It also meant that collaboration across branch offices was vastly improved, as it was possible for documents to be stored centrally and open the documents as fast as if they were local... even very large technical drawings.

WAN optimization is Steelhead's most valuable feature. 

Steelhead's handling of encrypted traffic could be improved because it requires some complex configuration to optimize encrypted traffic, especially when working with Microsoft protocols for mail servers and VPN services

The solution is being used for optimization. 

The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature. 

SteelHead works from the application. I use it to optimize traffic from Amazon. It is mainly used for customers who need to increase the traffic to 33K. For other users, it has been more of an operation.

It depends upon the enterprise and the application that the organization has. We have used the tool to release one optimization. It depends upon the port account that you are trying to push it across.