Application Acceleration

 

LAN-like performance across the WAN

On this Page
> The Challenges
> The Implications
> The Solution
> The Advantages
> Benefits
> The BSG Approach
> Why BSG?

The Challenges

Is your organisation facing one or more of the following challenges?

  • Email and application performance delivered over the WAN is poorly perceived
  • Consolidation of distributed environments impacting end-user experience
  • Supporting an ever increasing mobile and remote workforce
  • Remote backups taking too long
  • TCP issues mean increasing the bandwidth has not significantly increased application performance
  • Bandwidth limitations reducing the effectiveness of new application deployments such as CRM, Collaboration, and ERP
^ Back up

The Implications

  • Delayed application roll-outs due to a lack of bandwidth
  • An increasing overhead to manage the remote or mobile workforce
  • Unhappy end users resulting in growing tension between IT and the rest of the organisation
  • Increasing backup issues with a shrinking window and ever increasing amounts of data
  • Spiralling total costs for managing the WAN
^ Back up

The Solution

The BSG Application Acceleration solution, utilising the market-leading Riverbed Steelhead® appliance, is an integrated appliance that can accelerate the performance of key enterprise applications by up to 100 fold. BSG offer companies a consolidated IT infrastructure with LAN-like application performance across the WAN to branch offices and mobile workers. This solution changes the way organisations work, enabling faster, more reliable business processes that are no longer hindered by the locations of employees.

^ Back up

The Advantages

  • Accelerates Applications - Remote and mobile users are more productive, collaboration becomes quicker, and version control issues are minimised
  • Enables IT Consolidation - Users experience LAN-like application performance while IT can consolidate servers and data for utilisation, cost, and security benefits
  • Optimises Bandwidth Utilisation - Bandwidth utilisation can be reduced by 60% - 95%, deferring the need for further bandwidth expenditures
  • Accelerates Backup and Replication - Backup windows can be cut by up to 75%, providing more secure, more reliable, more frequent backups. End-user backups become fast and reliable, even when mobile
  • Mobile Workforce - Delivers LAN-like applications to remote laptop users
  • Adapts as Infrastructure Grows - Reduces the need to re-architect the solution as you grow
^ Back up

The Benefits

  • Ability to deploy and manage new offices quickly
  • Frees bandwidth to enable latency sensitive applications such as VOIP
  • Enables consolidation and convergence through taking pressure off the network
  • Frees IT staff by reducing the number of people needed to manage IT
  • Improves end user experience with the delivery of faster applications
  • An easily quantifiable ROI for our customers. In fact, customers see payback on their investment from many different angles:
    - Reduced capital expenditures on IT infrastructure
    - Reduced and deferred bandwidth expenditures
    - Increased productivity
    - Enhanced collaboration
    - Improved backup and replication
    - More secure data

The diagram below shows the types of files accelerated and the average performance increase for each:

^ Back up

The BSG Approach

BSG has been working closely with organisations across many industries to improve their return on investment through the use of application acceleration tools and technologies.

BSG understands many of the potential pitfalls and problems that organisations need to take into consideration. When planning such an environment for its customers, BSG has developed a structured approach using the following process:

  • Pre-Sales Workshop - Providing Scope and Vision
  • Initial Proposal - Giving Justification and Scope
  • Pilot - Assessment and Analysis
  • Full Solution Rollout - Deployment and Transition

Capacity planning tools are used to collect information to determine opportunities to consolidate and model an application acceleration plan. This service will assess your current WAN environment to help determine potential savings by utilising this technology.

^ Back up

Why BSG?

Incorporated in 1987, BSG is an integrated IT practice, designing, deploying and operating IT solutions for its customers.

As a managed services provider BSG specialises in the management and support of Infrastructure Solutions for a range of clients. BSG provides an end to end solution for its customers including technical support via its call centre (ITIL accredited IT maintenance and 24x7x365 call centre operations providing 1st and 2nd line telephone support), as well as a fully hosted managed service meeting the standards required by ISO27001. This means that customers that work with BSG are able to leverage the knowledge and expertise of an organisation that designs, deploys, and operates Infrastructure Solutions on a daily basis, even should you wish to manage the final solution yourself.

The BSG approach provides organisations a framework and a set of deliverables to adapt to inevitable changing requirements throughout any project lifecycle. By adhering to methodologies that it has developed through experience gained from similar engagements.

^ Back up 

If you are interested in learning more about how BSG can help resolve the many Application Acceleration issues businesses face today, simply contact BSG.