accelerating your connection to the cloud

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Accelerating Cloud Performance

Brent Lees. Senior Product Marketing Manager. EMEA.

December 2012

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©2012 Riverbed Technology. All rights reserved. Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used

herein belong to their respective owners. The trademarks and logos displayed herein may not be used without the prior written consent of Riverbed Technology or their respective owners.

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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Thank You! Questions, Feedback?

Let Brent know!

+44 7779144181 or [email protected]