MAKE CLOUD APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT A SUCCESS WITH THE IPANEMA NANO

ooking for scalability, manageability and flexibility, enterprises progressively adopt cloud services in SaaS delivery model for standardized applications like CRM

(Salesforce, Sugar), email and collaboration (GoogleApps, Office 365) as well as conferencing systems (Cisco Webex, Microsoft Lync). With market players like Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace, enterprises can also access virtually infinite computing resources. But cloud applications make a big change on the IT architecture and consumption model - and not every project yields the anticipated benefits. These cloud initiatives that might be initially considered as straightforward and cost effective can become progressively difficult for IT, frustrating for the users and expensive for the enterprise.

About IpanemaIpanema provides enterprises with a direct connection between application performance and their business requirements. With Ipanema Technologies, enterprises automatically understand which applications use the network and deliver guaranteed performance to each user. Enterprises can support their strategic IT transformations (like cloud computing and Unified Communications) and control Internet growth while reducing their IT expenses. Ipanema’s customers range from mid-sized companies to enterprises with 1,000s of sites. Enterprises can get Ipanema products through our reseller channels. They can use Ipanema “as a Service” through Managed Service Providers and Telecom Operators’ offerings. SMBs/SMEs can access Ipanema’s benefits thanks to the AppsWork™ service offering.

Challenge 1: Cloud applications are efficient but not cheap. If they are to yield a good ROI and deliver a suitable user experience then their performance must be guaranteed.

Challenge 2: Cloud applications are made up of dynamic traffic that can impact the performance of other business critical traffic during peaks of high demand.

Challenge 3: Cloud applications significantly increase traffic volume, placing a significant strain on the Wide Area Networks (WAN). The WAN now has to manage competition between cloud and on premise applications and to differentiate business and recreational usages.

Ipanema’s nano engine ensures cloud applications deliver the benefits they promise by meeting the challenges they bring to the corporate network. The nano engine provides full application control in a cloud computing environment with an unmatched price/performance ratio.

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“With the nano engine, I can safely embrace cloud-based applications to reduce costs and increase IT agility while guaranteeing business productivity, predictable application performance and end-user experience guarantee.”

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Visible to the IT department so the impact of cloud applications can be fully understood by IT and communicated to business leaders with simple metrics, comprehensive KPIs and quality scores. This is important for CIOs, Application Directors and IT Directors to understand how cloud applications perform across the corporate network.

Controlled effectively so that real-time flows (like voice conferencing) and business critical cloud applications (Office 365, Salesforce) are prioritized above less critical applications like YouTube, Facebook or emails. Conversely the nano prevents large file transfers to expand beyond the levels where they would hurt the other applications, ensuring that critical applications such as SAP or Unified Communications still function to the required SLAs anytime.

Intelligently routed across the appropriate network e.g. Internet or MPLS depending on their availability and performance at that precise moment. This allows for easy and efficient implementation of local Internet breakouts and to provide access to the large bandwidth cloud applications require at a reasonable cost.

How does the nano engine support cloud application deployment?How does the nano engine support cloud application deployment?

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The Ipanema nano engine helps you respond to all cloud application challenges. It is an ultra-compact device able to structure network traffic at small offices with less than 50 employees. The nano allows cloud applications to run without costly bandwidth upgrades and ensures that even rapidly growing intra-branch traffic is:

isk of not deploying the nano – Not deploying Ipanema’s nano in the branch

would jeopardize not only the success of the new cloud application deployment but

also the performance of the other business applications. Unsatisfied users and

business managers will complain, lowering cloud application adoption and forcing IT to

upgrade the WAN at a high cost without being sure of the impact.

lignment with the company’s strategic goals – Guaranteeing the success of its

cloud based email and collaboration project, Ipanema’s nano leverages the

company’s investment to improve its efficiency and productivity through better

collaboration and a more flexible management and licensing model.

Ipanema's nano benefits:

Protect business cloud apps that cost: $60/u/m

Protect other business apps that cost: $260/u/m

Save on IT operations & governance cost: $15/u/m

Save on network cost: $15/u/m

Guaranteeing the quality of Office 365 and SharePoint (an investment of

$60/user/month);

Protecting the performance of the other business critical applications (ERP, CRM, Unified

Communications, file sharing, cloud apps, Internet, etc.) against the resource intensive

Office 365 and SharePoint (an average investment of $320 - $60 = $260/user/month if

we consider the decommissioning of the old email and sharing systems);

The benefits of the nano are:

hat TCO can you expect? –

Enterprises deploying cloud

applications expect to cut their legacy

systems cost, streamline their IT

infrastructure management and gain in

scalability and flexibility. Recent research

about public cloud deployment of Microsoft

Office 365 and SharePoint demonstrates an

average Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of

$60 per user and per month (for a base of 5,000 users) - this without considering the

impact on the WAN.

cenario – Let’s consider a 20 person branch office of a company with 5,000

employees in the Professional Services industry that is deploying the Microsoft

stack. The company has an IT budget aligned to its industry standard, i.e.

$975/user/month (of which $320 is allocated to applications). The TCO of a nano in this

branch will be $3/user/month (including central devices, management opex and

unforeseen project incidents).

Nano and the cloud application business caseNano and the cloud application business case Automatic incident prevention, better helpdesk productivity and IT governance will

save $15/user/month;

Delaying bandwidth upgrades by a few years for an average saving of

$15/user/month;

Optionally enabling the use of a local Internet breakout for direct access to Internet

resources, preventing to load the MPLS network and accessing large resources at

low cost, dividing per 3 or more the cost of incremental Mbps.

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