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Riverbed\'s solution for providing end to end visibility into network and application performanceTRANSCRIPT
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Riverbed CascadeAssess, Accelerate and Adapt
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Agenda
The challenges of network optimizationThe Riverbed solutionHow Cascade addresses your top network challengesCascade product line overviewCascade customer success
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Riverbed is the IT Performance Company
The ROI from Network, Storage and App
Investments
OptimizeIn the private cloud,
public cloud, and at the branch
ConsolidateThe Total Performance
Picture
Understand
SIMPLIFY CONSOLIDATION /
VIRTUALIZATION AND ENABLE LOCAL-LIKE
PERFORMANCE
SPOTLIGHT CURRENT PERFORMANCE PAIN &
POTENTIAL
ACCELERATE APPS,CUT BANDWIDTH COSTS,
ENHANCE BCDR,IMPROVE STAFF PRODUCTIVITY
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Assessing network performance
Which applications do I have on my network, and how many instances?
Are specific applications or users slowing down my network?
Which instances are rarely used and can be consolidated?
Which applications are experiencing outages or slowdowns? What performance is each user getting?
Are service level agreements being met?
Network optimization projects raise questions such as
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Multiple barriers to network assessment still remain
WAN acceleration is changing the game
Higher expectationsfrom the network team
Unsuitable network management tools
New applications
Evolution of networks
Monitor & predict application performance, maintain SLAs, maintain security, manage service providers
Web conferencing, telepresence, social media
Public clouds, private clouds, virtualization, mobile computing, consolidation of branch office services
Tools have often dwindled over the years, andare often expensive to install and maintain
Flow-based tools usually reportincorrect performance information
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The definition of WAN optimization is evolving
AccelerateApplications
Accelerate applications up to 100x
Reduce bandwidth use by 60-95%
Gain visibility into network & application performance
Proactively plan your WAN optimization
Resolve issues before end-users are impacted
Adapt Your Infrastructure
Control and manage performance
Tune settings per site Virtualize & consolidate
AssessContinuously
To deliver IT performance, you need visibility
Cascade
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Where is network & application visibility needed the most?7
Successful IT Consolidation
Reduce costs and risks of IT consolidation Accelerate application discovery and
dependency mapping
Application Performance Management
Monitor application delivery on the network Minimize impact of service outages Resolve issues proactively
Plan for WAN optimization, assess impact of your deployment and quantify benefits
Analyze WAN & LAN traffic to any level of depth
WAN Optimization& Analysis
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Riverbed Cascade: a flow–based solution for visibility
NetFlow rapidly becoming method of choice for network management An industry standard supported by routers, WAN optimization devices, etc. Much easier to implement than agent-based solutions or synthetic transactions
Cascade collects, stores flow records & augments with layer 7 information Advanced analytics proactively alert on performance & security events
Data Center
Web Tier
App Tier
DB TierDNSAD NTP
CascadeSensor
NOC CascadeProfiler &Gateway
Steelhead Steelhead
BranchOffices
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Why Cascade is a better visibility solution
Behavioral Analytics Learns typical network and application behavior patterns and alerts
you to meaningful changes A cost-effective way to monitor your applications
End-to-EndDependency Mapping
Identifies application, server and client dependencies without agents Helps you understand the impact of change on application delivery
Network Drill-Down
Drill down to network performance metrics per application, host, user, and much more
Business-centric view of your infrastructure, with extended troubleshooting capabilities
Riverbed Steelhead Support
Unified, plug-and-play WAN optimization reporting Analyze application performance across optimized and
non-optimized sites
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Plan WAN optimization deployments
Use built-in Cascade reports to plan your WAN optimization budget Optimization candidate analysis: by app performance & business importance Optimization benefit analysis: how much each site & application is benefiting Site capacity analysis: size your Steelhead deployments & plan future growth
Which applications have the worst latency?
How much bandwidth did I save today?
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Drill down to discover problem sources
Example: problem related to high WAN utilization
Let’s find the application
Which user is responsible?
Let’s find the server
We found it’s John Smith
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Get proactive alerts for application performance problems
Alarm conditionNormal behavior
Track many different metrics for applications, servers and users Normal behavior is learned automatically – no need to set thresholds An easy, cost-effective way to monitor a wide variety of applications
Monitoring the network is the first line of defense against application outages
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How behavioral analytics accelerate problem resolution
Find FixCascade analytics
Find FixCompetitive solutions
Find FixManual
MTTR
EVENTS
Cascade analytics can alert you to network & application problems faster than the end user can
Application slows Call to help desk
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How is our application performance management different?
Real time – tells you what your users are feeling right now
Non-intrusive – no server-side agents, no synthetic transactions
Proactive – powerful analytics provide alerts even before users call to complain
Comprehensive - enabled for all environments, both optimized & non-optimized
The only integrated network assessment and acceleration solution
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Reduce costs and risks of IT consolidation
With Cascade network & application visibility, you can significantly simplify the discovery and consolidation process.
Establish and confirm
dependencies
Enact freeze and monitor for violations
Change, move, accelerate &
verify
Discover all systems within
hours
The age of hyper-consolidation is upon us Data center consolidation, server consolidation, cloud computing, virtualization
First step is to know what’s on your network and who’s using it Traditional approaches involve long cycles of staff interviews, scans & manual
updates
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The Cascade product line
Data Center
Web Tier
App Tier
DB TierDNSAD NTP
CascadeSensor
NOC CascadeProfiler &Gateway
CascadeSensor -VE
Profiler• Centralized
reporting & analysis• Behavioral analytics • Collects data from
sensors & gateways• Sized based on flow
per minute capacity
Gateway• Collects flow data from selected
sources• Supports all flow types• Deploy w/profiler or regionally
Sensor• Layer 7 application
classification• End-user experience• Performance metrics• Collects traffic from
SPAN ports or taps• Deployed in data center
Sensor-VE• End-user experience• Performance metrics• Loads as RSP package• Deployed in branch
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What payback can you expect from Cascade?
Source: IDC, 2010
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%
IDC survey found a 3-year ROI of 364%
and a payback period of 5.5 months
Average Annual Benefits of Riverbed Cascade (per 100 users)
Total = $31,679 Source: IDC, 2010
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Customer case study: GlaxoSmithKline
Background• Global pharmaceutical, biological, and
healthcare company • Existing Cascade customer, deployed
on the WAN to manage Bluecoat/Packeteer WAN infrastructure
• Additional visibility was required for a new data center project
Results• Able to deploy a cost-effective solution• 1/5 the number of systems that were
required by the nearest competitor Key benefits
• Cascade provided multi-tier visibility in the data center
“For our new Global Data Center we needed better visibility, Cascade was the most cost efficient and scalable solution.”
Paul Rizzo Director of Application Performance Services
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For further information19
Cascade product page: http://www.riverbed.com/products/cascade/
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