1 Accelerating Cloud Performance Brent Lees. Senior Product Marketing Manager. EMEA. December 2012
Oct 21, 2014
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Accelerating Cloud Performance
Brent Lees. Senior Product Marketing Manager. EMEA.
December 2012
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Who is Riverbed?
The performance company
A profitable public company (RVBD) • $728 million in revenue (Fiscal 2011) & $199 million Q2 2012
• Global sales and support operations
A trusted IT supplier to over 18,000 customers • Tens of thousands of appliances installed and operating around the
world
The vendor with the best products in the market • Steelhead appliances offer best performance across key applications.
• Cascade offers simple, comprehensive visibility from flow to packet
• Stingray provides data center solutions for scale, performance, and security
• Whitewater enables public cloud storage
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“Hybrid IT is the new IT, and it is here to stay.” Gartner, Feb. 2012
Source: ESG Feb 2012
17%
34%
27%
46%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
Software-as-a-service(SaaS)
Usage of the following cloud computing services, by year. (Percent of respondents)
2012 (N=614)
2011 (N=611)
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What Makes the Public Cloud Attractive
ELASTIC
CAPACITY
OPEX
VS
CAPEX
FASTER
TIME TO
MARKET
COST
EFFECTIVE
UPTIME
RELIABILITY
SOMEONE
ELSES
PROBLEM
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Choose the right cloud performance partner
Riverbed IMPROVES:
…of existing and future clouds, whether they are private, public or a mix of both (hybrid)
Performance Visibility Control Security Consistency
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Deliver IT Performance Wherever it Lives: Now or in the Future
Branches
SaaS PaaS
IaaS
Hosted
Services
Data Centers
WAN
Private
Cloud Hybrid
Cloud
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Head Office, San Francisco
Branch Office, Stockholm
Disaster Recovery Site, NYC
Mobile Worker, Cape Town
…Monitors application performance globally
…Connects employees to corporate data from anywhere
…Minimizes IT footprint at the branches
…Ensures consistent user experience with apps
SaaS
…Accelerate Office365, Salesforce, Google Apps
…Protects your data faster
Cloud Backup
…Leverages public cloud storage
Riverbed has a set of building blocks for cloud performance
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• Cloud Steelhead appliance make your
applications in the cloud feel as if they were
stored locally
• Steelhead Cloud Accelerator gives your users
great experiences with SaaS:
How to achieve… Performance regardless of the cloud flavor
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• Granite decouples storage from server giving you more flexible cloud deployments
• Virtual Services Platform (VSP) on Steelhead virtualizes edge services and runs them
directly on the WAN optimization appliance already deployed to the branch office
How to achieve… Centralized storage, local compute
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• Cascade Shark gives real-time visibility into all inter-VM traffic crossing virtual switch
How to achieve… Monitoring of cloud performance
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• Stingray Traffic Manager directs requests between the clouds
How to achieve… Workloads balanced between different clouds
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• Cloud Steelhead accelerates connection to
recovery site
• Whitewater enables cloud backup
How to achieve… Choice of disaster recovery solutions
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With Riverbed, Private Cloud is easy
• Deploy optimization
everywhere
• Consolidate storage without
compromising branch
performance
• Gain actionable visibility of
application performance across
physical and virtual networks
• IT grows as fast as your
business
• Back up with WAN optimisation
or Cloud Accelerator
• As the distance between the
users and applications grows,
performance is at risk
• Some applications require local
storage that limits scope of
consolidation
• How to troubleshoot application
performance issues across
physical and virtual environments
• How to account for traffic,
computing and storage spikes?
• Choice of disaster recovery
solutions
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Branch Offices
Mobile Workers
Steelhead Mobile
Cloud Storage
Public Clooud
Cloud Compute
Secondary Data Center
Primary Data Center
Virtual Steelhead Whitewater
Stingray Traffic Manager Clustered Steelhead
Appliances
Stingray
Aptimizer
Steelhead CX
Appliance
WAN
Stingray Traffic
Manager
Riverbed Virtual Services Platform
Steelhead EX + Granite Appliance
Granite Core
SaaS
Cascade
Virtual Shark
Hybrid Cloud optimal performance… only with Riverbed!
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Cloud Steelhead
Using AWS to store image and
cad files and host CAD
workstations
using AWS for data analytics
requiring a daily transfer of
~500GB of data
Using AWS and CSH to share
large media files with
subcontractors across the globe
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High-quality access to live and recorded videos worldwide, with no additional hardware required with Steelhead & RSP
Insight into their WAN traffic and a true end-to-end view of the news delivery path from reporters to servers with Cascade
Shorter game development cycles, more collaboration, faster time to market for global project teams with Steelhead
IT infrastructure now reacts very quickly to traffic spikes, application downtime has been eliminated with Stingray
Solving Common Challenges in Media & Communications
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Conclusions and next steps
No matter how complex your hybrid cloud IT infrastructure is,
Riverbed can accelerate it.
Contact your Riverbed sales representative for further
information.
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