Sub-Zero

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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

SteelHead™ CX
SteelHead™ CX for Virtual
SteelHead SaaS

Riverbed NPM solutions

Riverbed NetProfiler
SteelCentral™ NetShark
Riverbed Flow Gateway

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.