Steffian Bradley Architects

Steffian Bradley Architects – Collaboration and Centralized IT Infrastructure

Steffian Bradley Architects, established in 1932 in Boston, MA, works with clients in North America, Europe and Asia. They are experts in architecture, interiors, planning, lighting and urban design and work with clients in the healthcare, education, residential, senior living and corporate and commercial markets. With about 170 professionals worldwide, Steffian Bradley Architects plan and design innovative environments that serve the needs of their clients, their communities and the environment.

When Steffian Bradley first met with Broadleaf, collaboration that was essential to design work was slow across the WAN (wide area network). Spencer Warncke, CIO of Steffian Bradley Architects, needed faster access times and also wanted to limit the amount of IT infrastructure that was necessary in offices abroad. After learning of these needs and goals, the Broadleaf Solutions’ team recommended Riverbed Steelhead appliances to address both the collaboration need and the goals to limit infrastructure in branch offices. The Riverbed solution has enhanced the end user experience for collaboration by allowing for LAN-like access to data across the WAN. Additionally, the Steelhead appliances have allowed IT resources to be centralized at the headquarters office thereby limiting the infrastructure that is needed in the branch offices.

Warncke says, “Over the last five years, Steffian Bradley Architects has rapidly expanded from a Boston institution to having international presence with satellite offices in Connecticut, London, and Barcelona. Broadleaf helped us weave together a WAN solution with Riverbed Steelhead appliances that has enabled us to limit the infrastructure and staff in our satellite offices while transparently sharing resources. Thanks to their innovative solution, our operations are more streamlined and cost effective. Thanks for the support you have given us.”

More Success Stories

RLS2000.com, Inc.

David Oelfke, IT Director at RLS2000 noted that Sami Ventriglia, Broadleaf Solution Specialist on this project was “nothing short of responsive, helpful and level-minded. I cannot imagine him losing his cool in any circumstance; even after hours when we required attention, Sami’s work ethics and personality shined. I had the pleasure of working with a true professional; anxieties that are normally associated with such large projects were non-existent—Sami really pulled everything together. A great asset to a great company.” Oelfke also noted that Broadleaf engineer, Matt Van Wormer, “was awesome…he was up to speed in a few minutes…changes were made really fast. Everyone is very happy with the new servers and storage.”

Boston MedFlight

“…attending Broadleaf’s technology lunch seminars built my confidence in their expertise. I turned to them to improve uptime for an electronic patient care record application and they provided an efficient, cost effective solution that met the uptime needs and allowed for better management and protection of all of BMF’s data and applications as well as a strong DR plan.”

Institution for Savings

“Working with Broadleaf has allowed Institution for Savings to provide LAN-like performance over the WAN. We are seeing up to a 5x improvement in throughput. The Riverbed solution has led to better control over data as well as a better experience for the end user.”

On Target Utility Services

“The Broadleaf team did a great job of listening to our requirements, understanding our environment and keeping our long term goals in mind. We don’t have a large IT team that can dedicate a lot of time to managing the storage platform, so we really needed an easy to use, easy to install solution. The Broadleaf team came onsite and worked with us side by side. We were up and running with the new platform in a day and through their knowledge transfer, we know how to be self sufficient with the system as well. Broadleaf was a great resource throughout this process from initial requirement analysis, right through implementation.”

Steffian Bradley Architects

“After our successful implementation of a WAN optimization solution with Broadleaf, we again turned to their expertise for help with data storage and protection. Their thorough understanding of our environment, needs and goals led them to recommend and implement a server and storage virtualization solution that provides all of the flexibility and protection that we need to run our business effectively and confidently.”

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