A small piece of hardware named after a sea-going trout is making smooth sailing for high-volume backups and business continuity planning at a Twin Cities credit union.
The $277 million TopLine FCU in Maple Grove, Minn., is using the Steelhead appliance from Riverbed Technology to boost the connection between its data center and a disaster recovery site at one of the 29,000-member credit union's five branches.
In technical terms, the appliances have provided an 86% reduction in bandwidth utilization that backing up the SQL database and Microsoft Exchange applications – including emails – was using across the MPLS routing and T1 pipe used to link the sites, while sharply reducing the latency a new VMware virtual replication system was experiencing on the credit union's Citrix servers.
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