JLL, an InformationWeek Elite 100 honoree, uses
SteelHead to ensure superior online performance of live video and
SaaS apps worldwide
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance
infrastructure, today announced that leading global commercial real
estate company, JLL, is using Riverbed® SteelHead™ as the
foundation for its next-generation, hybrid network. An
InformationWeek Elite 100 company, JLL uses leading technology to
deliver value to its commercial real estate owner, investor and
corporate clients in more than 80 countries. Underlying much of
JLL’s technology are Riverbed’s SteelHead solutions. SteelHead
ensures superior application performance over networks, supporting
intense traffic from bandwidth-intensive applications like live
video, and both cloud-based and SaaS applications.
JLL—a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $5.4 billion—is
a professional services firm that specializes in commercial real
estate services and investment management.
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The company’s IT team supports 58,000 employees across 230
corporate offices in more than 80 countries, and is tasked with
ensuring rapid access to centralized, business-critical
applications. It also supports the firm’s industry-leading
technology platforms such as RED, a comprehensive corporate data
and analytics platform; 3D remote site selection tool Blackbird,
smart building platform IntelliCommand℠, and an award-winning suite
of property marketing technology-based tools.
JLL’s IT environment is constantly evolving to meet the
company’s needs as cost-effectively as possible while maintaining
its position as a technology innovator in the commercial real
estate industry. For example, its network is becoming increasingly
hybrid as the company moves more applications and services to the
cloud. Also, the company is in the process of replacing its MPLS
network with dual high-speed Internet links at each office, to
provide more bandwidth at a better price. Meanwhile JLL has adopted
new practices such as video town hall meetings and internal
webcasts that require large amounts of bandwidth.
As an early Riverbed customer, JLL originally deployed SteelHead
appliances as a way to avoid buying bandwidth at all of its global
locations, “back when bandwidth was super expensive,” explained Joe
Ryan, JLL chief technology officer, Americas. Even with the higher
amounts of bandwidth available today, JLL continues to rely on
SteelHead to ensure fast data access and superior application
performance over the network. “Our professionals push our bandwidth
to the limit; our clients expect rapid insights from us, and that
means high performance. Even with 100 mbps connections, without the
SteelHead appliances, people would be screaming about poor
application performance,” says Ryan.
JLL has an ever-increasing number of network connections, due to
increased adoption of internet-based application use within its
hybrid network. To support this increasingly tech-savvy workforce,
JLL continues to invest in its Riverbed implementation, allowing
the company to improve agility and efficiency and lower operational
costs, all while ensuring exceptional application performance for
users globally, even as the number of users expands. “Delivering
business-critical apps over the Internet saves us millions without
sacrificing performance. Riverbed makes it possible,” says Edward
Wagoner, JLL chief information officer (CIO), Americas.
JLL also uses the built-in virtual platform on SteelHead
appliances to run other services, such as staging software updates.
This use of Riverbed’s technology has made it possible to remove
file servers from branch offices, achieving significant savings in
costs and time. “We've eliminated the cost of the servers as well
as everything else that's associated with them from a management
perspective,” says Ryan. “SteelHead saves the team time because
there are fewer devices to monitor, to patch, and to move when our
offices move. The savings just add up.”
SteelHead also helps ensure high-quality webcasts and
videoconferences, allowing JLL to adopt live video town hall
meetings, and support other data-intensive client platforms such as
its new data and analytics platform, RED, and its 3D remote site
analysis software, Blackbird. To support the video applications,
SteelHead detects when multiple users tune in to a live video
stream, sends only one request for the video, and then splits the
stream locally to serve each individual. This is designed to ensure
flawless video quality while requiring fewer resources and
protecting other applications from performance problems. SteelHead
video stream-splitting has enabled the JLL Americas region to
remove media servers from over 90% of their offices.
Most importantly, Riverbed SteelHead technology helps keep JLL’s
IT innovation at the forefront of the commercial real estate
industry. “When we go out and talk with others in the industry, we
certainly think we're far out in front. The next-generation WAN is
getting a lot of press now,” Ryan says. “We view our investment in
technology as an investment in our people. We're always out there
looking at what's new, what's possible and making sure we're taking
advantage of it. Riverbed is a part of that.”
Riverbed SteelHead and the Riverbed Application Performance
Platform™
The Riverbed Application Performance Platform™ gives CIOs
end-to-end visibility, optimization and control across an entire
enterprise. A key part of the platform, Riverbed SteelHead is the
industry’s #1 optimization solution for accelerated
delivery of all applications across the hybrid enterprise.
SteelHead provides increased visibility into application
performance and end-user experience and the ability to ensure
business performance SLAs through an application-aware approach to
hybrid networking based on centralized business intent-based
policies.
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About Riverbed
Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the
leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the
most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure
applications perform as expected, data is always available when
needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and
resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables
hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a
competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and
leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility.
Riverbed’s 26,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98%
of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.
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About JLL
JLL (NYSE:JLL) is a professional services and
investment management firm offering specialized real estate
services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying
and investing in real estate. With annual fee revenue of $4.7
billion and gross revenue of $5.4 billion, JLL has more than 230
corporate offices, operates in 80 countries and has a global
workforce of approximately 58,000. On behalf of its clients, the
firm provides management and real estate outsourcing services for a
property portfolio of 3.4 billion square feet, or 316 million
square meters, and completed $118 billion in sales, acquisitions
and finance transactions in 2014. Its investment management
business, LaSalle Investment Management, has $56.0 billion of real
estate assets under management. JLL is the brand name, and a
registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For
further information, visit www.jll.com.
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Riverbed TechnologyKim Gengler,
415-527-4170kim.gengler@riverbed.comorJLL AmericasJoanne Bestall,
312-228-2344Joanne.bestall@am.jll.com
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