IBM vs Riverbed

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IBM
Based on 2916 reviews.
Riverbed
Based on 90 reviews.
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Overview
International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.
Riverbed Technology, Inc. is an American company founded in 2002 with the goal of reducing the latency and bandwidth constraints in delivering applications via wide area networks to multiple locations across long distances. Riverbed is known primarily for pioneering WAN Optimization with Riverbed SteelHead, which first shipped in 2004 and continues to lead the market with over 50% market share. As information technology has evolved over the past decade and begun to move to the cloud, Riverbed has also evolved: Businesses increasingly rely on applications and data that run both in on-premises data centers as well as in the cloud, delivered to users over a mix of private networks and public networks. This is the hybrid enterprise, and Riverbed offers a platform to give enterprises visibility to deliver, control, and optimize IT resources across this hybrid enterprise.
Sample Customers
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager
Michelin Tire Corp
IBM Application Performance Management
Mibtree, EatDrinkDeals.com, IT Performance Advisor
IBM Tivoli Network Manager
immixGroup, Yamato Financial Co. Ltd., United Rentals, Komsomolskaya Pravda, i-Virtualize, Alpha Modus, CLOUD M, Apptimate AB, Senet Inc., Redexis Gas, Cablevision, Zumidian, pixx.io GmbH
IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM)
ATOS, Devereux, Spark New Zealand, Access4, Rogers Communication, Lumen (formerly known as CenturyLink)
IBM Cloud Monitoring
1. Coca-Cola 2. American Express 3. General Motors 4. Delta Airlines 5. Verizon 6. Citigroup 7. Ford Motor Company 8. AT&T 9. Procter & Gamble 10. Boeing 11. Walmart 12. General Electric 13. IBM itself 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. Microsoft 16. Amazon 17. Intel 18. Cisco Systems 19. Oracle 20. Adobe 21. Accenture 22. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 23. Dell Technologies 24. Siemens 25. BMW 26. Toyota 27. Samsung 28. Sony 29. ExxonMobil 30. Chevron 31. BP 32. Shell
Alluvio AppResponse
N11.com, OneMain Financial, China Bank, Halkbank, Kaust
Alluvio Aternity
Maersk, SwissRe, Travis Perkins, Michelin, National Instruments, Simmons & Simmons, Lighthouse Guild
Alluvio NetProfiler
Lathrop & Gage, Australian State Government Agency, BDO Canada LLP
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Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
17%
Educational Organization
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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