We're very pleased to announce the winner of the Performance Hall of Fame for January 2011. It's Michael Vassallo, Senior Network Administrator with Dancker, Sellew and Douglas (DS&D), founded in 1829,
is one of the nation’s leading providers of furniture, laboratory
products, and inventory management solutions to the commercial office,
educational, and healthcare marketplaces. His entry, Go BRANCH WARMING!!! 2.3TB Pulled from Steelhead by 1 client alone!!!!!, was the monthly winner.
Michael is responsible for DS&D's LAN, WAN, servers, storage,
desktop management, and phone issues. In his spare time, he does a
little web site and database coding, and occasionally eats and breathes.
DS&D has five Steelhead Appliances (two 1050Ms, two 520s, and a
200) and one Steelhead Mobile Controller spread between corporate, their
DR site, and their remote offices. Their top traffic types are AppAssure replication and Equallogic SAN replication,
with a bunch of AutoCAD, PDFs, MS Office, MAPI and CIFS as well.
There's a lot of DR data going across the WAN, with some regular user
stuff behind it.
When I asked Michael for a story about how his users have benefited from having Riverbed in place, he said,
I
could point all the obvious benefits in various stories about cost
savings etc., etc., yada, yada. But everyone hears those. The best
story I can point is what happens when a User who has become accustomed
to the optimization no longer has it. They scream loudly about how SLOW
everything is and breathe a SIGH of relief when things are normal
again.
He also wants me to mention that if users lose optimization, it's
because of network issues that are unrelated to the Steelhead
Appliances. :)
Michael has been written up as a happy Riverbed customer before. And we have a video of Michael talking about DS&D's successes with Riverbed.
See the whole announcement with the video and the graphics on the Riverbed blog.
