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SharePoint Momentum

17K+ Customers, 100M Licenses

Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrants, Forrester WaveTM

Continued Platform and Application Innovation

“SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft’s history... And this is just the beginning: SharePoint continues to grow as customers are just beginning to apply it to a wide array of business issues and processes.”

- AMR RESEARCH, APRIL 22, 2008

4,000+ Partners Today across Collaboration, Content Management and Search

Communities

Search

Sites

Composites

ContentInsights

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SharePoint Sites Engage people across your value chain using one platform

Customers Partners Employees

Internet Extranet Intranet

Publishing standards

(XML, XHTML…)

Accessibility standards

(WCAG 2.0)

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Unified and Optimized Access to the Data Center

DMZ

Utilize existing user directories

Datacenter Resouces

BIG-IP Edge Gateway

• One solution to manage all access policies regardless of access network

• Capacity and performance to secure all user traffic• Optimizes application delivery to remote and mobile users• Improves quality of real-time applications; soft phones and

streaming media

Internetwww.abc.com

ExtranetExtranet.abc.com

Intranet//abc

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Application health and availability

• Traffic management starts with accurate health• Multi-port/protocol monitoring

HTTP Bad

TCP Good

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Transport layer reports health, butusers cannot access SharePoint

User

• Real-time connection tables• Intelligent load-balancing method

Transport

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Configuring persistence profiles in BIG-IP

Cookie Source IP and SSL ID

LocalTrafficProfilesPersistenceCreate

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Site level health

• BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)– Starts with good server level health within 1 site– Includes external link health– Disaster Recovery and Active/Active

Site A

Users

Site B

Global Traffic Manager

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Considerations for application access

• Next generation remote access solution• Converged security and acceleration services

platform• Optimize access for mobile users and remote

offices

BIG-IP EG (Edge Gateway)

• New BIG-IP Solution for the Network Edge– Includes new BIG-IP Edge Client solution– Up to 8 Gbps, 600 log-ins per second, 40,000 users– Mobile devices, notebooks, PCs supported– Redirect for mobile users (SharePoint Mobile View)

Edge Portal

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New BIG-IP Edge Client

• Flexible deployment:– Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad

• Security– End-point security– Protected workspace

• Mobility– Smart Connection roaming– Uninterrupted application

sessions• Acceleration

– Dynamic compression– Client-side cache– Client-side QoS

• FREE

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• Competitor SSL VPN = 211s= 47s

• BIG-IP Edge Gateway = 114s= 16s

Test includes a user logging onto VPN, navigating through SharePoint content, and downloading a 4 MB document

First Time Repeat

Unified Access to SharePoint

Twice as Fast User Downloads

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Considerations for application layer security

SC Magazine's 2010 Reader Trust Award for Best Web Application Security solution

BIG-IP ASM (Application Security Module)

• Security or performance? Fastest layer 7 (application layer) security product

• Compliance regulations PCI DSS, SOX, Basel II, HIPAA compliance

• New malicious behavior Built-in security policy for SharePoint

• Beyond HTTP protection ICSA Web Application Firewall Certification