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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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

©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.

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“Hybrid IT is the new IT, and it is here to stay.” Gartner, Feb. 2012

Usage of the following cloud computing services, by year.
(Percent of respondents)

46%
Software-as-a-service
(SaaS)
34%
2012 (N=614)

2011 (N=611)

27%
Infrastructure-as-a-
service (IaaS)
17%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Source: ESG Feb 2012


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What Makes the Public Cloud Attractive

OPEX
ELASTIC
VS
CAPACITY
CAPEX

FASTER
COST
TIME TO
EFFECTIVE
MARKET

SOMEONE
UPTIME
RELIABILITY
ELSES
PROBLEM


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Choose the right cloud performance partner

Riverbed IMPROVES:

Performance Consistency Control Security Visibility

…of existing and future clouds, whether they are private, public or a mix of both (hybrid)


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Deliver IT Performance Wherever it Lives: Now or in the Future

IaaS
PaaS
SaaS

Hosted
Services

WAN

Branches

Hybrid Private
Cloud Cloud Data Centers


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Riverbed has a set of building blocks for cloud performance

SaaS
…Accelerate Office365, Salesforce, Google Apps

Cloud Backup
…Leverages public cloud storage

Branch Office, Stockholm
Disaster Recovery Site, NYC …Minimizes IT footprint at the branches

…Protects your data faster

Head Office, San Francisco
…Monitors application performance globally
…Ensures consistent user experience with apps

Mobile Worker, Cape Town
…Connects employees to corporate data from anywhere


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How to achieve… Performance regardless of the cloud flavor

• 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:


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How to achieve… Centralized storage, local compute

• 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


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How to achieve… Monitoring of cloud performance

• Cascade Shark gives real-time visibility into all inter-VM traffic crossing virtual switch


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How to achieve… Workloads balanced between different clouds

• Stingray Traffic Manager directs requests between the clouds


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How to achieve… Choice of disaster recovery solutions

• Cloud Steelhead accelerates connection to
recovery site

• Whitewater enables cloud backup


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With Riverbed, Private Cloud is easy

• As the distance between the • Deploy optimization
users and applications grows, everywhere
performance is at risk

• Some applications require local • Consolidate storage without
storage that limits scope of compromising branch
consolidation performance

• How to troubleshoot application • Gain actionable visibility of
performance issues across application performance across
physical and virtual environments physical and virtual networks

• How to account for traffic, • IT grows as fast as your
computing and storage spikes? business

• Choice of disaster recovery • Back up with WAN optimisation
solutions or Cloud Accelerator

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Hybrid Cloud optimal performance… only with Riverbed!

Branch Offices Public Clooud
Riverbed Virtual Services Platform
Cloud Compute SaaS Cloud Storage

Steelhead EX + Granite Appliance

Mobile Workers Primary Data Center
Cascade
Whitewater
Virtual Steelhead Virtual Shark
WAN Stingray
Aptimizer
Steelhead Mobile

Secondary Data Center Clustered Steelhead
Stingray Traffic Manager

Appliances

Granite Core

Stingray Traffic Steelhead CX
Manager Appliance


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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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Solving Common Challenges in Media & Communications

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


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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 brent.lees@riverbed.com

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