Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

Riverbed Application Performance Platform accelerates Office 365 and other applications, and delivers network visibility for a successful IT consolidation at Sub-Zero.
Sub zero Wolf kitchen appliances

Challenges

  • Ensure a successful IT consolidation with consistently fast application performance over the distributed network and centralized management and troubleshooting
  • Improve HD video end user experience for customers at remote showrooms delivery across network to improve showroom experience for customers

Benefits

  • Reduced WAN traffic by 50%
  • Accelerated Office 365 performance; file save time shrunk from 10 seconds to 2 seconds
  • Improved customer experience at showrooms
  • Cut application troubleshooting times to less than a minute
  • Built foundation for future infrastructure improvements

Overview

Sub-Zero Group, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of luxury appliances, including the Sub-Zero line of refrigerators and freezers and the Wolf line of cooking products. The third-generation, family-owned company recently celebrated its 70th anniversary. It is based in Madison, Wisconsin, where it was originally founded.

Sub-Zero deployed a mix of physical and virtual SteelHeads across their facilities with SteelHead SaaS to accelerate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps such as Microsoft Office 365.

 

Solution

Riverbed NPM solutions

 

We set this very high bar as far as application performance, and with SteelHead, we met it.

Eric Niebuhr, Director of IT

Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

With Riverbed, I’m confident that we’re ahead of the curve, and that we’ve set ourselves up nicely for the future.

Eric Niebuhr, Director of IT

Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

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