BOBST Group
Riverbed helps global manufacturer scale its business with improved application performance and greater data security.
Challenges
- Fast growth, with many branch office locations around the globe
- Branch IT infrastructure facing end-of-life
- Avoid costly bandwidth upgrades
- Backups done locally, compromising data security and making disaster recovery more challenging
- Poor network and application performance
Benefits
- Centralized backup processes, providing greater data security
- Quick provisioning of branch sites and fast recovery
- Easier integration of new companies into business
- Server consolidation
- Fast local applications and network performance
Overview
BOBST Group is a leading global supplier of equipment and services to the packaging and label industries. Its main markets are flexible materials, folding carton and corrugated board. Headquartered in Switzerland, BOBST has around 5,000 employees around the world, a presence in more than 50 countries, and twelve production facilities across three continents. BOBST provides machines, services, workflows and consumables for packaging and label producers, and brand owners. A leader in innovation, BOBST was the first company to introduce digital printing to the industry.
Solution
- SteelFusion™ branch converged infrastructure
- SteelCentral NetExpress™ network performance monitoring
- SteelHead™ WAN optimization
“Riverbed SteelFusion sets a new standard in application and network performance – it’s like having a data center in a box. SteelFusion is the way to go.”
Xavier Plautard, Group IT Infrastructure Manager
BOBST Group
“Before using Riverbed, it took users in Italy and India 30 minutes to start running a specific application; following the optimization, it now only takes ten seconds. SteelCentral helped us locate a problem with the underlying network protocols, and we used SteelHead to resolve this issue.”
Xavier Plautard, Group IT Infrastructure Manager
BOBST Group
