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By Keith Buckley, Vice President Australia/ New Zealand, Riverbed Technology

The IT organisation is becoming more and more strategic in helping companies reach their business goals. Companies are using technology as a means to not just expose new opportunities and tap into new markets but find ways to relate to their customer base and drive loyalty. As most of us are well aware, the primary choice for businesses today is to move as much of their IT infrastructure to the cloud as the cost benefits and resource elasticity are very well understood as drivers of cloud adoption. An additional benefit of this shift has been the rise of DevOps as a standard practice for IT.

Riverbed Technology has appointed Uma Thana Balasingam as APJ vice-president of channels.

A total of 85% of companies plan to more closely monitor network and app performance during the summer Games, with slowness and buffering of Channel 7’s Olympics app being complained about online.

What do you do with 20 remote sites with disparate data technologies and backup?

Ongoing Collaboration Gives Customers Flexibility and Acceleration When Moving Virtualized Machines Within a Multi-Cloud Environment

Akamai and Riverbed are the rev-heads of the internet age, tinkering under the hood to get data flowing faster. They've just announced availability of their jointly developed system that should soup-up the speed of cloud computing - Riverbed claims an 8Mbyte PowerPoint presentation could be transmitted back and forth from the cloud 50 times faster as a result.

Gartner has positioned Riverbed Technologies well ahead of competition in its latest Magic Quadrant for wide area network optimisation vendors.

Riverbed Technology purchased the intellectual property and other assets of Israel based rival WAN optimisation company Expand Networks, which is in liquidation.

Macquarie Telecom's 'click wrap' cloud service provider subsidiary, Ninefold, has announced that its cloud storage service - claimed to be the first of its kind in Australia - is now out of public beta and in full production.

Riverbed Technology, a software company which makes tools to optimise computing performance, especially over wide area computer networks, now has four Australian companies trialling its cloud storage accelerator system, Whitewater.

Silver Peak Systems, a US company specialising in wide area network optimisation, has opened an office in Australia under the leadership of Wayne Neich, former head of Australian operations for rival WAN optimisation company, Blue Coat.

Riverbed Technology has announced that Gartner has identified Riverbed® in its December 2010 report, "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 3Q10",1 as the WOC (WAN optimisation controller) Advanced Platform (AP) worldwide market share leader for 3Q10 based on revenue.

Riverbed Technology has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the 2010 'Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers'.

Construction and infrastructure firm, Laing O'Rourke Australia, is using Riverbed Steelhead appliances deployed originally for wide area network optimisation to host virtualised services and applications at branch offices saving a, claimed, average of $30k per site per year.

Frost & Sullivan has valued the Asia-Pacific WAN optimisation controller market at $US246.8m in 2008 and is predicting strong growth thanks to enterprises "reeling from often inadequate and costly bandwidth."