Retail Drakes Supermarkets reduces downtime and simplifies backup and recovery for more than 50 retail stores with Riverbed ® SteelFusion TM When extended downtime resulting from recurring network outages at its chain of over 50 grocery stores threatened to impact sales as well as customer satisfaction, Drakes Supermarkets, an independent Australian grocery retailer, moved to modernize its communications infrastructure. Riverbed SteelFusion, which removes branch IT from stores and centralises it in the data centre, coupled with a communications network upgrade from BDSL to fibre, has enabled Drakes to dramatically reduce downtime and deliver instant recovery for its retail branches. The operational cost of store outages can be significant, and in Drakes’ case, the ability

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