Achieving Data Center Consolidation Savings with Improved Branch and Mobile Application Performance

Over the last 20 years, business and IT leaders have been distributing IT infrastructure to the branch and mobile employee environment. However, the past decade has demonstrated a trend in the need to consolidate distributed IT infrastructure back to the data center in order to cut costs and gain more security and control. With data centers being consolidated and virtualized, central applications perform poorly when accessed via branch office or mobile networks. By adding application optimization and acceleration technology to branch and mobile users, IT leaders gain the economic efficiencies afforded by data center consolidation without the pain of poor branch and remote application performance. Bob Gilbert, Director of Marketing at Riverbed Technology is my guest as we discuss strategies to reduce corporate operational spend through data center, branch and mobile networking. If you’re centralizing branch and mobile users applications for then you need to listen to this podcast.