IP Expo 2009 - Accelerate Business Performance while Cutting IT Costs

Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Paul Griffiths Riverbed - Global Consulting Engineer October 2009

Riverbed - Who are we?
A profitable public technology company
Trusted by over 6,500 customers
54% of the Global 100 already rely on Riverbed
Global 24 x 7 follow-the-sun support and operations
$333 million in annual revenue
$258 million in cash; no debt
Over 950 employees, headquartered in San Francisco
Riverbed is the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage.

Riverbed has customers in all industries Tech/Software Service Providers Retail/Consumer Transportation/Logistics US and International Government Healthcare/Bio/Pharma Energy A/E/C Media/Communications Manufacturing Professional Services Financial Services

And has major partners in every area of technology Storage HW & Applications Virtualization Networking & Management Security A/E/C Applications Enterprise Applications Wireless, Satellite, VoIP and Media Streaming

The top 3 goals of IT organizations
Reduce costs - impact bottom line profits and find budget:
Focus on your TCO, capital and operational expenses
Reduce expenses on monthly network operating
Defer network upgrades
More efficiently use IT resources
Mitigate risk - Protect against unplanned service outages and ensuing loss:
Focus on your cost of downtime and negative impact on reputation
Protect more data in available windows
Eliminate costly and risky backup in all your branches
Enable faster disaster recovery
Increase worker productivity - boost top line revenue and business achievements :
Focus on the ROI and NPV
Speed up applications
Enable collaboration
Let your IT staff be strategic

Consolidation
Problem: How to simplify and cut costs from IT infrastructure by centralizing servers and storage, WITHOUT compromising end user performance.
Solution: WAN optimization for consolidation project success
Accelerated connections to centralized application, email and file servers
Reduced cost in hardware and management of remote sites
Increased efficiency and utilization of IT infrastructure
Reduced risk with data consolidated into secure sites
Improved compliance with industry and government security regulations

Virtualization
Problem: Server and desktop virtualization projects success can suffer from issues of bandwidth, latency, and added load on the WAN.
Solution: Avoid the performance pitfalls of virtualization.
Accelerate application & service delivery to (now remote) end users.
Improve response time and enable QoS for virtual desktops.
Move virtual machines quickly for operational flexibility.
Increase disaster recovery capabilities by swiftly replicating virtual machines.
Do all of the above while saving on networking costs.

Data protection use cases
Problem: How to protect data with an effective DR strategy covering storage growth, network limitations, and many sites.
Solution: Protect more data, recovery faster, and reduce costs with DR specific optimizations.
Centralize backup
Backup over WAN
Eliminate tapes and hardware in branch offices, reduce costs & reduce risk
Consolidate servers and backup within datacenter
Centralize storage operations, without impacting branch user performance
Improve replication
Branch-data center or data center-data center
Defer network bandwidth upgrades, by reducing utilization and overcoming latency
Shorten time required which lets you shorten windows or protect more data
Reduce impact on other WAN applications, by freeing up bandwidth

Customer case studies

Willis Group
Background
Global insurance company (16,000 employees)
Distributed IT environment costly to maintain
Deployed 100+ Steelhead appliances around the world
Results
Consolidated two data centers into one
Consolidated 200 major applications and several thousand small applications into one location (including Microsoft Exchange)
Removed IT infrastructure from many international offices
Key benefits
Projected cost savings of $30 million over five years
Improved employee access to information globally
“ An increasing amount of our international offices no longer need local IT professionals or significant local infrastructure.” - Eoghan Doyle, director of infrastructure and operations

Citigroup
Background
4,000 branches worldwide
Data protection mandate -- backup tapes were lost by tape storage vendor
Eliminate the deployment of branch office servers
Ensure consistent application performance in any location
Results
NetApp SnapMirror backup -- 22.65 hrs to 3.43 hrs
Up to 99% data reduction on SnapMirror replication
Oracle backups completed 5x faster
“ Riverbed was the only vendor who was even capable of integrating their product into our complex environment. We selected Riverbed based on their leading performance, superior manageability, high security and very high responsiveness.” - Network Architect More than 6X faster

Riverbed Steelhead appliance with RiOS

A comprehensive, single platform approach WAN DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICES MOBILE WORKERS Steelhead Appliance SECONDARY DATA CENTER “ Makes 3000 miles feel like 30 feet” Steelhead Mobile Steelhead Appliance Steelhead Appliance All powered by the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS)

Bandwidth Limitations Transport Chattiness and Latency Application Chattiness and Latency Root Cause Management Streamlining Data Streamlining Transport Streamlining Application Streamlining Solution
Optimize WAN bandwidth utilization
Prioritize applications’ bandwidth use
Accelerate large-scale disaster recovery jobs
Eliminate transport protocol inefficiencies
Support secure traffic acceleration (SSL)
Optimize application WAN performance
Reduce protocol chatiness
Enable transparent deployment
Provide additional best-of-breed services
Facilitate central management and reporting
Eliminate bandwidth constraints 5x more bandwidth, no additional network costs Make it simple to deploy and manage 15 minutes for basic set up Accelerate applications over the WAN Up to 100x faster RiOS addresses WAN problems

Data streamlining overcomes bandwidth limitations Files & Data
Steelhead auto-intercepts response, and segments data
“ De-dupes” data so only new bytes compressed & sent over the WAN
Requests go directly from the client to the server
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
16-Byte references represent megabytes of warm data
Remote Steelhead reconstructs data and delivers it to the client
Works bi-directionally, cross-protocol and across applications
Data WAN Reconstructed Files & Data Request

Transport streamlining overcomes TCP limitations The net effect is a 60-98% reduction in TCP round trips DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE WAN Make TCP payload bigger 16KB to 100KB+ Repack payload with references From 100KB+ to Virtual 1MB+ References New data Data

Application streamlining overcomes application protocol limitations Request DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE Optimized WAN Transfer The net effect is 65-98% reduction in WAN round trips WAN Steelhead completes transaction locally Steelhead completes transaction locally

Application acceleration results *Some application-specific features not yet available for Steelhead Mobile

Data protection features
Adaptive Data Streamlining
SDR-M
SDR-Adaptive
Network integration and management
QoS, HS-TCP, MX-TCP
CPU offload for higher throughput
Multi-core balancing
Adaptive compression
Tunable LZ
Faster backup and replication end-to-end across the network
Compatible with all major vendor hardware and software DR products
Up to 1 Gbps LAN-side speed per appliance, maximum optimization for WAN
WAN DATACENTER 1 DATACENTER 2

Security
Take advantage of extensive embedded security features for data in motion and data at rest.
IPSEC for connections
SSL & HTTPS acceleration
Encrypted data store
Choose up to 256-bit AES encryption
Role-based administration
SMB signing support
Encrypted MAPI support
Steelhead Mobile VPN interoperability

Comprehensive solutions

Steelhead Mobile – Deployment and Operation Small Branch Offices DATA CENTER 1. Steelhead Mobile Controller deployed in the data center 3. Once connected, Steelhead Mobile first gets policy and license from the Controller 2. Client establishes a WAN / VPN connection as they usually do Home Users Mobile Users Steelhead Mobile Controller Steelhead Appliance 4. Steelhead Mobile then connects to the Steelhead appliance & begins accelerating data transfers WAN or Internet VPN DMZ

Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)
Enhanced Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) enables server-less branch offices
With WAN optimization many applications can be consolidated back to the datacenter
Now “edge” local applications can also be virtualized and run on the Steelhead appliance
WAN BRANCH OFFICE DATACENTER Print Servers v DNS/DHCP Server v Any VMDK AD/DC UTM & Web Proxy Streaming DNS, DHCP, IPAM Application Sensor Print RSP

Riverbed Services Platform RSP
Virtualized Environment
VMware platform
Windows server available
Up to five VMDKs
Windows
Security
Streaming
Monitoring
Steelhead Appliance VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK

RSP Architecture – RiOS 5.5
VMware-based platform enables up to 5 packages to run at once
Innovative LAN & WAN taps allow for bi-directional traffic and interaction
Full rules management interface
Any VMDK LAN WAN RiOS Acceleration Management Interface RSP Package RSP Package RSP Package Any VMDK

Steelhead appliances are sized for your needs
1050-L
6 Mbps optimized throughput
800 optimized TCP connections
1050-M
1,300 optimized TCP connections
1050-H
2050-L
2050-M
2050-H
Smaller Larger
250-L
250-M
250-H
550-M
550-H
5050-M
5050-H
6050
2050, 5050, 6050 offer up to 1 Gbps throughput in High-speed set up
Cluster for scale & HA
Interceptor 9350
12 Gbps optimized throughput
1,000,000 optimized TCP connections
Mobile Worker
Steelhead Mobile Software
Installed on end-user machine
Central Management Console
Manages and monitors hundreds of appliances at once
Steelhead Mobile Controller
Required for Steelhead Mobile
Manage up to 2,000 concurrent users.
Management & Reporting
License & field upgradeable models within families give “Pay as you grow” flexibility to scale

In summary
Comprehensive WAN optimization technology
Speed – best performance, up to 100x faster
Scale – support 100s of sites & massive datacenter to datacenter transfer
Simplicity – plug & play deployment with auto-discovery & easy central management
Upgradeable models to fit any need: budget today, growth tomorrow
Application, data, transport, & management streamlining
Riverbed Services Platform - with VMware virtualization

Thank you! Come and see us on Stand 865 Paul Griffiths [email_address]

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