Riverbed Technology emphasizes the importance of SharePoint performance for enhancing customer service and employee productivity, advocating for location-independent computing to optimize app and data hosting. The adoption of Office 365 significantly improves performance, evidenced by reduced loading times and improved user experience, while Riverbed's application performance platform identifies and resolves issues efficiently. Overall, the platform leads to greater productivity, lower total cost of ownership, and faster time-to-market for companies leveraging SharePoint.

1. The case for location-independent
SharePoint
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2. Customer service and employee
productivity require SharePoint
performance
“We wanted to streamline that process for our
employees so they could focus less on tracking
down documents and more on their actual work.
At the same time, we wanted to create a better
experience for the clients.”
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3. Adopting Office 365 is
transformational
“The planned transformation was enormous and
included infrastructure upgrades, data center
consolidation, adoption of new applications, and
site expansion – all at the same time.”
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4. SharePoint performance issues slow
user adoption and ROI
“Users in Johannesburg, South Africa, had to
wait almost a minute for a certain SharePoint
page to load.
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5. SharePoint performance issues can
delay time-to-market
“If we could save our researchers just 10 or 15
minutes per day through faster application
performance, this type of solution would pay for
itself in months.”
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6. Latency
• TCP windowing
SF to NY = 70ms
Result: Uploads / downloads up to 30x slower
• Bandwidth congestion
Complex Sites
• Multiple stylesheets, multiple javascripts
150 elements per page is not uncommon
Result: SharePoint site access up to 4x slower
• More images, bigger images
Geo-replication
Extra hardware, complex administration
• Cost and complexity
Result: $90K for additional farm
• Global search architecture
Custom Code
Inherited code, developer turnover
• Troubleshooting in production
Result: hours reviewing log files to fix
• QA in development
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7. Location-independent computing
Turns distance and location into a
competitive advantage by allowing IT to
have the flexibility to host apps and data in
optimal locations while ensuring flawless
delivery and best user experiences
• higher people productivity
• better leverage of global
skills/resources
• radically reduced TCO
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8. Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform
Riverbed Performance
Management™
Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™
Combines user experience,
application, and network
visibility to detect
SharePoint issues before
• SharePoint performs as expected
end users notice
• Data is always available when
needed
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• Performance issues are detected
and fixed before end users even
notice
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9. Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform
Steelhead
Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™
The #1 WAN optimization
for up to 30x faster
SharePoint and Office 365,
with 90% less traffic over
• SharePoint performs as expected
hybrid networks
• Data is always available when
needed
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• Performance issues are detected
and fixed before end users even
notice
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10. Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform
Granite
Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™
The only branch converged
infrastructure that delivers
local performance while
enabling data centralization,
• SharePoint performs as expected
instant recovery, and lower
• Data is always available when
needed
TCO.
• Performance issues are detected
and fixed before end users even
notice
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11. Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform
Stingray
Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™
The #1 virtual application
delivery controller (ADC)
for scalable, secure, and
elastic delivery of
• SharePoint performs as expected
SharePoint
• Data is always available when
needed
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• Performance issues are detected
and fixed before end users even
notice
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12. Branch Offices
AppInternals
Primary Data Center
Steelhead Cloud Accelerator
Steelhead
Stingray App
Delivery
(w/Aptimizer)
Steelhead
Skipware
Custom
IT Portal
Cascade
Profiler
SharePoint
AppResponse
Mobile Workers
WAN or Internet
Public Clouds
Steelhead Mobile
Cloud
Steelhead
Stingray
Traffic Manager
External Users
Steelhead Cloud
Accelerator
BrowserMetrix
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13. Customer service
“[Clients] get a consistent experience
whenever they visit the portal […] With
Riverbed, we have a solid, robust platform that
we don’t have to babysit.”
– IT manager, professional services consulting firm
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14. Adopting Office 365
“It was just amazing how much better Office 365
was with Steelhead: 300% performance
improvement in some cases, sub-second response
times now for anything – you wouldn’t know it was
in Singapore.” – Branko Ceran, CIO, MTC Australia
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15. User adoption
“Although the primary benefit of Aptimizer is
performance improvement, another is that it has
improved the adoption of the intranet in those
areas where performance originally lagged.”
– Greg Stimson, financial and program manager, Golder Associates
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16. Global collaboration
“By accelerating previously slow and frustrating
tasks like accessing data at other research
centers, we are actually accelerating our
product development cycle.”
– Bernd Schwenk, Vice President of Information Management, ADVA
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