Riverbed Products & Solutions

1. Riverbed Products & Solutions

2. Welcome Welcome to the Riverbed Products & Solutions online training course. After completing this course, you will be able to: • Describe three ways that Riverbed drives IT performance • Name Riverbed’s key family of products • Describe Riverbed Steelhead solutions • Describe Riverbed Whitewater solutions • Describe Riverbed Cascade solutions • Describe Riverbed Stingray solutions Virtual Instructor photo

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4. Riverbed – The IT Performance Platform UNDERSTAND OPTIMIZE CONSOLIDATE The Total Picture The ROI from IT Investments Private / Public Cloud and Branches • Spotlight current pain • Identify potential • Leverage unique application intelligence • Accelerate time-to-market • Accelerate apps • Optimize disaster recovery • Cut bandwidth costs • Eliminate costly remote infrastructure • Simplify virtualization • Experience local-like performance

5. Riverbed Product Families WAN Optimization Private & Public Clouds Cloud StorageOptimization Visibility, Packet Capture & Analysis Stingray Web Content Optimization Application Delivery Controllers

6. 6 Comprehensive Riverbed Product Deployment PUBLIC CLOUD VM VMDK BRANCH OFFICES Cloud Steelhead Riverbed Services Platform Skipware Stingray ADC Steelhead Appliance Virtual Steelhead Whitewater WAN MOBILE WORKERS Steelhead Mobile Interceptor Stingray ADC Clustered Steelhead Appliances Mobile Controller Central Mgmt. Console Cascade Stingray Aptimizer Steelhead Appliance Stingray ADC PRIMARY DATA CENTER SECONDARY DATA CENTER

8. Distribution of IT More DistanceMore Sites More Datain More Places More Demandson IT

9. A Clear Swing in the Pendulum

10. Key Applications Perform Well on LANs…

11. …But Perform Poorly on WANs

12. A Steelhead for Every Need Wherever your business leads and wherever your data go, Riverbed has a Steelhead solution to accelerate your business • Steelhead Appliances • 1 Mb/s–12 Gb/s • 30–1 Million TCP conn. • Host up to 5 VMs • Virtual Steelhead • ESX / ESXi Based • VMWaremgmttools • Cloud Steelhead • Subscription Model • Pay as you grow scaling • Steelhead Mobile • Per Connection Licensing • Branch Site DR Steelhead Platforms Interceptor RSP Mobile Controller BRANCH OFFICE CMC WAN DATA CENTER MOBILE WORKERS vSH cSH PUBLIC CLOUD SECONDARY DATA CENTER

13. Data Riverbed’s Patented Technology Advantage NETWORK USERS DATA CENTER DE-DUPLICATE DATA OPTIMIZE TCP • VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE APPLICATION LATENCY

14. Application Optimizations

15. Key Initiatives Driving Riverbed Adoption Relative Importance of IT initiatives to Organization’s Business Initiatives for 2010 Improve RTO and RPO by up to 90% 73% Share gigabytes of data globally in just seconds 73% Proactively reduce mean time to find performance issues by 85% 70% Move virtual machines up to 50x faster 69% Make private and public clouds feel local to remote users 66% Enable 10x, 25x, 50x faster applications over the WAN 65% Eliminate or virtualize remote servers and infrastructure 60% Cut WAN traffic up to 95% - keep WAN costs flat 59% % of time mentioned as critical or high priority to the organization Source: Wedbush : Wave Q4 2009—Dec 21 2009

16. Steelhead Family of WAN Optimization Products Steelhead Appliance Steelhead products deliver comprehensive market-leading WAN optimization • Accelerate application performance for increased worker productivity and collaboration • Enable server virtualization and consolidation to the data center without compromising performance • Reduce bandwidth requirements and offer QoS to avoid network upgrades • Enhance DR capabilities to replicate or back up more data, more often, and recover faster on the current network • Differentiate on speed, scale, and simplicity Virtual Steelhead Steelhead Mobile Cloud Steelhead • Virtual appliance for deployments with specialized physical requirements; e.g., ruggedized, space limitations, etc. • Software package on PC and Mac laptops to ensure consistent performance regardless of location • Virtual appliance for use in Amazon Web Service EC2 Public Cloud • Physical appliance for desktop, branch office, or data centers

17. Virtual Steelhead • No hardware virtual appliance • Built on RiOS, virtualized on VMWare ESX/ESXi • Identical features for WAN optimization as Steelhead appliances • Requires WCCP / PBR for traffic redirection • Retains all current technology advantages over the competition Appliances Software Virtual

18. Cloud Steelhead Public cloud provider Riverbed Cloud Portal • Licensing & Billing • Discovery • Deployment • Upgrades • Configuration • Contract Management Customer A CustomerB CustomerB • Extend acceleration to Public cloud • Subscription/up-front Pricing Models • Tight integration into Cloud systems • Quick customer spin-up times • Simplified ongoing management

19. Steelhead Mobile - Complete Mobile Solution SMC – Appliance • Designed for large deployments and rapidly growing organizations • Standalone appliance deployed in the data center. • Supports up to 4,000 concurrent active Mobile clients • Clusters for scale SMC – Virtual Edition • Enterprise grade acceleration for SMB or smaller strategic mobile deployments • Virtual package deployed in the Riverbed Services Platform on Steelhead Appliance • Supports up to 100 concurrent active Mobile clients Mobile Workers

20. WAN/VPN Scale Your Environment with Interceptor The Riverbed Interceptor provides intelligent load balancing for Optimization in the data center. • Data Center Load Balancing that is • Steelhead Aware • Peer Aware • Up to 12 Gb/s Optimized • Up to 1 Million TCP Conn. • Up to 10 Gb InPath cards • Hardware Bypass Capabilities • Connection Forwarding to support asymmetric networks • EtherChannel & VLAN support • QoS Transparency • Serial and Parallel clustering options available Interceptor 9350 Interceptor L3 Switch Router L3 Switch Router Interceptor Steelhead Appliances

21. Steelhead Central Management Console Optional CMC provides an easy to use mechanism to standardize RiOS Images, Steelhead configurations, RSP Images, and reporting • Available as appliance or VM • Touchless configuration of Steelhead appliances • Flexible & consistent group policy management • Scheduled software upgrades • Health monitoring • Aggregated reporting • Notification by email • Integrates with common systems and network management tools • Manage up to 2000 Steelheads CMC 8150 / CMC-VE

22. Check Your Knowledge! Which of the following IT trends have created a need for Steelhead? • Security and cost measures require IT to move from distributed to centralized • Enterprises have offices in more far away places than ever before • Most applications that enterprises typically deploy are designed and built for LANs • All of the above Answer: D Steelhead applicances optimize WANs by….Select all that apply. • De-duplication data • Adding more servers and bandwidth • Optimizing TCP • Eliminating latency Answer: A, C, and D True or False: Steelhead cannot solve all application throughput problems in the data center. Answer: True

24. Technologies of 1928

25. Tape Pain Points Reliability Time • Backup • Restore • DR is its own disaster • 10-50% of tape restores fail, 77% see tape backup failure1 • Technology changes COST Security Storage • Loss, theft • In-house (where?) or 3rd party? • Lengthy retention? 1Gartner

26. Moving to the Cloud • Elastic • Lower cost • Outsourced firefighting • Simple DR & HA Cloud Storage Media Server • Performance • Security issues • Change processes • Rewrite apps Cloud Service Provider Data Center

27. Whitewater Optimizes Cloud Storage • Faster • Easier • Lower cost • More secure Cloud Storage Riverbed Whitewater Media Server Service Provider Data Center Only Public Cloud Gateway Optimized for Data Protection

28. Data Protection Scorecard TapeDiskWhitewater/Cloud Hard cost Refresh cost Soft cost Speed Security Complexity Data access DR

29. Whitewater: Industry’s Broadest Ecosystem New New New New New New New New NetWorker Atmos NetBackup Backup Exec ~85% Share Whitewater

30. Whitewater Product Family 1.3 *VMware limits to 2TB useable

31. Modernizing Data Protection • Time to jettison tape • Century-old technology • Cost: Time, Reliability, Storage, Security • Pain in the disk • Hard and soft costs don’t ever stop • Complexity (deployment and management) • Best of both worlds: Whitewater & Cloud • No tape! • 30% - 50% cheaper than tape alternatives • Drop-in DR • High speed, reliability • No vaulting, technology refresh • Instant, infinite scalability • Set and forget Tape

32. Check Your Knowledge! True or False: The pay as you go cloud storage model is a more expensive cost platform for data protection? Answer :False True or False: Whitewater and cloud storage provide better and more cost effective data protection than using tape or disk. Answer: True True or False: Steelhead cannot solve all application throughput problems in the data center. Answer: True

34. Riverbed – The IT Performance Platform UNDERSTAND OPTIMIZE CONSOLIDATE • The Total Picture • The ROI from IT Investments • Private / Public Cloud and Branches • Spotlight current pain • Identify potential • Leverage unique application intelligence • Accelerate time-to-market • Accelerate apps • Optimize disaster recovery • Cut bandwidth costs • Eliminate costly remote infrastructure • Simplify virtualization • Experience local-like performance

35. Today’s Challenges: IT reacts to a deluge of help desk calls no way to be more proactive. Without end-to-end visibility, problems can linger  MTTR is counted in days/weeks. Point solutions provide too much data not enough actionable information. Triage is difficult across technology domains  lots of finger pointing. Inability to plan / prioritize app delivery  unpredictable performance of key apps Does your IT team experience any of these problems?

36. Cascade Bridges the Gap Performance Management Gap Cascade Application-Aware Network Performance Management Application Performance Management • Focused on software stack & application transactions Network Performance Management • Focused on device & interface health • End-to-end visibility into application delivery over the network • Deep packet capture & analysis

37. Performance Management with Riverbed Cascade Monitoring UNDERSTAND • The Total Picture Troubleshooting Discovery & Dependency Mapping • Spotlight current pain • Identify potential • Leverage unique application intelligence WAN Analysis & Optimization Security & Compliance Packet Capture & Analysis

38. Cascade Products End-to-End Visibility Packet Capture & Analysis Gateway (collects flow data) Shark (packet capture hardware) Sensor (classifies applications) Pilot (packet analysis software) Profiler (analyzes performance) Wireshark (open source software) Remote Site Visibility Steelhead (Collects flow & packet data; captures packets)

39. What Payback Can You Expect from Cascade? IDC survey found a 3-year ROI of 364% and a payback periodof 5.5 months • Average MTTR reduced from 12.8 hours down to 2.1 hours • Average volume of help desk calls reduced by 87% • $53,431 average annual savings on server purchases • $123,449 average annual savings on tool purchases • 34% fewer downtime incidents per month; average incident duration cut by 51% Average Annual Benefits of Riverbed Cascade (per 100 users) Total = $31,679 Source: IDC, 2010 Source: IDC, 2010

40. The News – Announcing… Riverbed launches “Stingray” Product Line • Asymmetric Optimization Strategy (ADC & WCO) • Based on Zeus & Aptimize Acquisitions (July) • Simplified pricing & packaging, subscription model, and security integration highlights

41. Solve different challenges with the right tools APPLICATION PAGE COMPOSITION NETWORK & PROTOCOLS Application protocol acceleration, deduplication, network optimization WOC - Steelhead Image, Browser, Script, and HTML Optimization WCO – Stingray Aptimizer Optimization, Offload,, Availability, Security, and Intelligent Control ADC – Stingray Traffic Manager USE THESE TECHNOLOGIES STAND-ALONE OR IN COMBINATION

42. What makes an application slow? Stingray Traffic Manager Steelhead

43. Steelhead accelerates applications on the network DE-DUPLICATE DATA OPTIMIZE TCP • VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE APPLICATION LATENCY But Steelhead cannot solve all application throughput problems in the datacenter

44. Take a closer look at the application… Steelhead can help by reducing application chatter and de-duplicate data over the WAN, but it can not make the application servers: • Respond faster • Increase capacity • Recover from failure • Manage traffic surges • Secure against L7 application attack

45. Check Your Knowledge! True or False: Riverbed believes that customers achieve the greatest value and return on investment from deploying the entire Cascade family of products? Answer :True Stingray Traffic Manager protects applications and accelerates application response time by • Using rules to give priority to important requests or loyal customers • Routing traffic around failing systems • Caching duplicate requests and reducing the number of connections and resources needed to manage customer transactions • Identifying and protecting against external vulnerabilities and attacks • All over the above Answer: E

46. How does Stingray Traffic Manager Work? Stingray Traffic Manager Optimizes the user experience Web and Application Servers Optimize and Accelerate – ... to improve performance and increase capacity Differentiate and Prioritize – ... to give users the level of experience they require Inspect and Secure – ... to block attackers ? ? ? Stingray

47. Stingray Aptimizer: Web Content Optimization (WCO) BEFORE AFTER • FILE MERGING: • Merge JavaScript • Merge Stylesheets • Image Spriting • Background image inlining • Page Component Optimization • Merge JavaScript • Merge Stylesheets • Image Spriting • Background image inlining • Dynamic Layout Streamlining: • JavaScript re-ordering • Asynchronous JavaScript Opt • On-demand image loading • Device + browser aware optimizations Result: Enterprise Web apps and public web sites up to 4x faster

48. Differentiation • Designed from the ground up for virtualization • Leading scale & performance • Redefine acceleration capability of ADCs with Aptimizer • Gain more application control with TrafficScript • Best in class price-performance

49. Check Your Knowledge! For practice, click and drag the appropriate Riverbed product on the left that should be deployed to resolve the network optimization or performance management challenge on the right. <Answers are in brackets>

50. Thank You! Thank you for taking the Riverbed Products & Solutions online training course. You should now be able to: • Describe three ways that Riverbed drives IT performance • Name Riverbed’s key family of products • Describe Riverbed Steelhead solutions • Describe Riverbed Whitewater solutions • Describe Riverbed Cascade solutions • Describe Riverbed Stingray solutions Click Next to take a short quiz to test your knowledge about Riverbed products and solutions. Virtual Instructor photo