IP Expo 2009 - Accelerate Business Performance while Cutting IT Costs

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Riverbed Steelhead AppliancesPaul GriffithsRiverbed - Global Consulting EngineerOctober 2009

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© 2009 Riverbed Technology. Confidential.

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 Riverbed is the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage.for networks, applications and storage.

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Riverbed has customers in all industries3

Tech/Software Service Providers

Retail/ConsumerTransportation/Logistics

US and International Government

Healthcare/Bio/PharmaEnergy

A/E/CMedia/CommunicationsManufacturingProfessional ServicesFinancial Services

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And has major partners in every area of technology4

Storage HW & Applications Virtualization Networking & Management Security

A/E/C Applications

Enterprise Applications

Wireless, Satellite,VoIP and Media Streaming

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The top 3 goals of IT organizations5

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

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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

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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.

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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

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Customer case studies

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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

“An increasing amount of our international offices no longer need local IT professionals or significant local infrastructure.”

- Eoghan Doyle, director of infrastructure and operations

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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, superiormanageability, high security and very high responsiveness.”

- Network Architect

NetApp SnapMirror Replication

0 5 10 15 20 25

Without Steelhead

With Steelhead

Hours

More than 6X faster

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Riverbed Steelhead appliance with RiOS

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A comprehensive, single platform approach13

WAN

DATA CENTER

BRANCH OFFICES

MOBILE WORKERSSteelhead 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)

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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 WANUp to 100x faster

RiOS addresses WAN problems

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Data

WAN

Data streamlining overcomes bandwidth limitations

ReconstructedFiles & Data

RequestFiles & 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

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WAN

Transport streamlining overcomes TCP limitations

Make TCP payload bigger

16KB to 100KB+

The net effect is a 60-98% reduction in TCP round trips


Repack payload with references

From 100KB+ to Virtual 1MB+

References

New dataData

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Application streamlining overcomes application protocol limitations17

Request

WAN


Optimized WAN Transfer

The net effect is 65-98% reduction in WAN round trips

Steelhead completes transaction locally

Steelhead completes transaction locally

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Application acceleration results

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

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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

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Security

Take advantage of extensive embedded security features for data in motion and data at rest.

IPSEC for connectionsSSL & HTTPS accelerationEncrypted data store Choose up to 256-bit AES encryptionRole-based administrationSMB signing supportEncrypted MAPI supportSteelhead Mobile VPN interoperability

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Comprehensive solutions

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Small Branch Offices

Steelhead Mobile – Deployment and Operation

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

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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

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Riverbed Services Platform

Steelhead ApplianceRSP

Virtualized Environment VMware platform Windows server available Up to five VMDKs

• Windows• Security• Streaming• Monitoring

VMDKVMDKVMDKVMDK VMDK

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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

AnyVMDK

LAN WANRiOS Acceleration

Management Interface

RSP Package

RSP Package

RSP Package

AnyVMDK

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Steelhead appliances are sized for your needs26

1050-L• 6 Mbps optimized throughput• 800 optimized TCP connections

1050-M 8 Mbps optimized throughput 1,300 optimized TCP connections

1050-H 10 Mbps optimized throughput 2,300 optimized TCP connections

2050-L• 45 Mbps optimized throughput• 2,500 optimized TCP connections

2050-M• 45 Mbps optimized throughput• 4,000 optimized TCP connections

2050-H• 45 Mbps optimized throughput• 6,000 optimized TCP connections

Smaller Larger

250-L• 1 Mbps optimized throughput• 30 optimized TCP connections

250-M• 1 Mbps optimized throughput• 125 optimized TCP connections

250-H• 2 Mbps optimized throughput• 200 optimized TCP connections

550-M• 2 Mbps optimized throughput• 300 optimized TCP connections

550-H 4 Mbps optimized throughput 600 optimized TCP connections

5050-M • 90 Mbps optimized throughput• 9,000 optimized TCP connections

5050-H• 155 Mbps optimized throughput• 18,000 optimized TCP connections

6050• 310 Mbps optimized throughput• 50,000 optimized TCP connections

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 WorkerSteelhead 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

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In summary27

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

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Thank you!

Come and see us on Stand 865

Paul [email protected]

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