Orange Business Services Technology Partner of Riverbed

Orange Business Services has standardized Riverbed Technology as a technology partner for its Enterprise Application Management service, a fully managed service that delivers application acceleration and WAN optimization with the option of a completely opex-based pricing model.

"Based on their business objectives and optimization requirements, Enterprise Application Management customers can choose from technology partners BlueCoat, Juniper and Riverbed, a recognized leader in WAN optimization and our partner since 2005 for custom-based solutions," said Richard Heaps, head of Product Management, Consulting & Solutions Integration, Orange Business Services. "Our customers are already benefiting: Avago achieved a 31 percent reduction in total data traffic over its network thanks to Riverbed-based Enterprise Application Management, and Lenovo experienced a 50 percent increase in employee productivity."

With applications at the heart of companies’ performance and a trend toward data center consolidation to save cost, the network is a critical enabler to deliver application performance and support overall business performance. Enterprise Application Management from Orange Business Services, part of the Business Acceleration solution, includes key valuable features:

• business-driven technology selection assessment: Consultants from Orange Business Services analyze the customer application profile to determine the most effective solution removing business risk in deploying the technology. Then, the solution is fully implemented and managed by Orange Business Services, helping to align business and IT needs and enabling rapid deployment and optimized resources which result in higher end-user productivity, faster return on investment and a lower total cost of ownership.
• flexible service model: Enterprise Application Management from Orange Business Services is based on a highly flexible service model, from equipment resale to a fully managed service based on customer preference.
• opex-based pricing option: Orange Business Services can provide a fully managed service with an opex-based pricing model option for customers restricted by capex spending cuts, in addition to the traditional way of providing equipment resale and professional services with Enterprise Application Management.

According to Heaps, "The move to cloud computing, when applications are provided from data centers outside a company’s premises, will further accelerate the criticality of the network and the importance of implementing the right tools to ensure the performance of business essential applications is maintained at all times."