Congratulations to Cristiano Luvizon of Vonpar (site is in Portuguese) in Brazil for winning the November Performance Hall of Fame. You can find his entry, More than 650GB removed in a month, band cap. increase 5.17X!! right here.
Cristiano is the Security Officer, and is the analyst responsible for
data links. Vonpar oversees two independent organizations in the food and beverage industry in Brazil, Vonpar Bebidas (the 4th largest Coca-Cola manufacturer in Brazil) and Vonpar Alimentos.
Vonpar acquired and installed their 12 Steelhead Appliances (two
1050Hs, a 550H, a 250H, and eight 250Ms) and 30 Steelhead Mobile
licenses in June, 2009, and they are distributed around two southern Brazilian states, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. Primarily they use them for HTTP, CIFS and Lotus Notes,
and as indicated in the graph, he has reduced bandwidth consumed by
these applications by between 80 and 94%, and removed more than 650GB of
WAN traffic in a month.
Cristiano loves to tell the story of the day that the Steelhead
Appliances were installed at their second set of remote sites. They
pre-configured the appliances and shipped them out intending to send
technicians to complete the installations once they had complete the
installations in the main data center. But users at the first sites to
receive the appliances called their colleagues at the second sites and
told them how amazing the Steelheads are. So their colleagues, who are
financial, commercial, and logistical analysts without very much
technical knowledge, went ahead and installed the Steelhead appliances
all by themselves. No technicians required. And they were thrilled by
the performance improvement.
We love this story too, because it once again shows how easy our
appliances are to install, and how much difference they can make for the
people and companies who use them. And we’re very happy to send
Cristiano a brand new Flip camera.
