Engen
Riverbed enables Engen to centralize IT resources and data, boosting business and IT efficiency, productivity and end-user satisfaction
Challenges
- Manage complex IT infrastructure and control costs
- Enhance user experience and boost employee productivity
- Improve backup processes and data protection
- Centralize applications and simplify delivery of services in a distributed enterprise
Benefits
- Decreased operational cost
- Centralization of resources
- Employee productivity with a greatly enhanced end user experience
- Data security with Improved backup processes
- 80% reduction of data across WAN provides faster application speeds and reduces bandwidth requirement
Overview
Engen is an African-based energy group focused on the refining and marketing of petroleum and petroleum-based products. It also has an extensive retail network. Founded in 1887, Engen is the market leader in South Africa, with around 3500 employees. It exports to more than 30 territories, mostly in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.
With offices in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries and Indian Ocean islands, supporting a vast network of depots, terminals, facilities and warehouses, Engen’s corporate structure is complex, challenging and extensive, placing great demands on its IT infrastructure. “We have two MPLS networks for corporate and retail. The corporate network connects our branch offices, regional offices, refinery and depots,” explains Nicholas Lain, Architecture Specialist at Engen.
Solution
- Riverbed Acceleration solution for Zero Branch IT
- Riverbed SteelHead™ CX
Employees wanted a better end user experience, and with Riverbed, we have been able to give them that and remove all the pain
Nicholas Lain
Architecture Specialist at Engen
