Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and increasing the performance of a full range of business applications including e-mail, ERP, CRM, backup, and file sharing. This ESG Lab Validation examines Riverbed`s WAN optimization and Virtual Services Platform (VSP) as well as the Riverbed Granite edge virtual server infrastructure that enables organizations to consolidate storage considered impossible to consolidate due to the response time requirements of branch-bound applications that rely on local storage.