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Steelhead Cloud Accelerator (SCA) for Office 365

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Fall 2013

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RIVERBED HELPS YOU TRANSFORM YOUR APPLICATION PERFORMANCE

With Riverbed, you can make users’ apps and data…

While ensuring your data center provides high…

BETTER

FASTER

EASIER

AVAILABILITY

SCALABILITY

SECURITY

WAN or InternetProgrammable Infrastructure

Professional services

Riverbed Performance Platform

SteelheadPerformance

Mgmt.Granite StingrayWhitewater

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Riverbed: the leader in WAN Optimization

Source: Gartner (April 2013) – Joe Skorupa, Mark Fabbi, Bjarne Munch

Gartner “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2013”

We are a leader once again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

With 6 years in a row as a leader in WAN optimization controllers, Riverbed stands alone in the leaders quadrant.

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Businesses are more cloud aware

5

80% Of traffic moves to

WAN by 2014

2.5X Growth in business

network traffic by 2017

$80B Private WAN Services

spend

50% Split between Windows and non-windows apps

$100BCloud IT Services

spend - 2016

58% Of business traffic will

be Video in 2017

Changing IT Spend

Changing NetworkEnvironment

Changing Apps Environment

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From: Research Report: 2013 Public Cloud Computing Trends. Source: Enterprise Strategy GroupCreated for Bob Laliberte, ESG. IP Address: (Unknown) © 2013 Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Cloud SaaS usage is increasing

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DATA CENTERS / CLOUDBRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS

WAN

Cloud Services/SaaS creates new challenges

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Users are further away from the data centers

Tokyo

SaaS DATA CENTER

Sydney

SaaS DATA CENTER

London

SaaS DATA CENTER

Herndon

SaaS DATA CENTER

Los Angeles

SaaS DATA CENTER

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Paris

Lexington (US)

St Louis (US)

30ms

110ms

???msInternational

WAN

EMEAWAN

North AmericaWAN

Domesticnetwork

Traversing the Internet introduces performance challenges for SaaS apps

InternetIP VPN

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Performance impacted by network latency

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140

Application Access

2 sec

120 sec

Local Access

Cloud Access

Accessing a 10 MB PPT Document on Office 365

60x SLOWER

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Microsoft Office 365 – a dominant enterprise workload

*Office 365 previously called Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)

Offerings• Multi-Tenant – Shared infrastructure for multiple customers• Dedicated – Separate hosting infrastructure for each

customer

Software and Services included:• Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online• Access to full version of MS Office Applications (Word,

PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Publisher, etc.)

Subscription-based online Office product suiteOffers access to various services and software built around the Microsoft Office platform

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Steelhead Cloud Accelerator for Office 365 for multi-tenant cloud services

Supporting and enhancing powerful Office 365 applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds, decreasing bandwidth and latency and increasing app performance and delivery speed

BRANCH OFFICE WELL CONNECTED HEADQUARTERS

Steelhead appliances provide Riverbed’s unrivaled deduplication, transport optimization, and compression

• Ensures fastest path to application

• WAN and Internet optimization

• Up to 30X better application performance

• More than 97% bandwidth reduction

WAN

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Riverbed Solutions for Office 365 Acceleration

Optimized Internet

Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

Steelhead in Microsoft DC

Steelhead in Customer DC Close to the Provider Cloud

Internet

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Steelhead Cloud Accelerator delivers Office 365 performance benefitsfor for Office 365

30+ Customers use Steelhead Cloud Accelerator for Office 365 multi-tenant cloud services

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Customer Use Case – Large Retailer

● Business Challenge– Migrating 26,000 users from

Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office 365

– Upgrading networks for all global locations not an option due to costs

– Network group mandated to support Office 365 over already saturated links in 100 global locations

● Riverbed Solution– Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

to optimize Office 365 traffic

● Competitive Advantage– Ease of deployment. Great

results in both Exchange and SkyDrive Optimization

– Riverbed only solution to accelerate Office 365 and work with existing saturated network

● Retailer Business Benefit – Delivers accelerated Office

365 performance without upgrading network

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Key Features

30x faster application performance

Dynamic scale and cloud-based subscription Licensing (per user)

Simple deployment and easy management

Steelhead Cloud Accelerator delivers value to Office 365

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● Pay for Steelhead Capacity in the cloud– Service/SaaS-like pricing - number of Users– Service sized by connections & bandwidth

● Enterprise Steelheads– Enable as many as needed

● 12, 24 and 36 month terms– Paid upfront

Subscription Licensing Per User

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Steelhead Cloud Accelerator with Microsoft Office 365 – A Strong Partnership

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2690045

● Riverbed solutions work seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications

● WAN devices are a choice for customers to boost performance under conditions of high latency or low bandwidth

● Microsoft and Riverbed individually support any customer using their respective products. Respective support teams can escalate customer issues to each other

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Customer experience

● Buy Steelhead Cloud Accelerator through Riverbed

● Integration is transparent to the end user

● Simple deployment

● No technical or business interactions needed with the SaaS vendor

● Easily upgrade to Steelhead Cloud Accelerator enhanced RiOS

IT’S AS EASY AS

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Summary

● Cloud services/SaaS are growing fast

● Office 365 is a dominant workload

● Industry-First WAN and Internet Optimization for Office

365 for multi-tenant cloud services

Steelhead Cloud Acceleratorhttp://www.riverbed.com/products-solutions/products/wan-optimization-steelhead/cloud-

wan-optimization/SaaS-Optimization.html

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Next Steps

• Request a demo of Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

• Engage in a Proof of Concept provided by Riverbed

• Work with Riverbed Account Team and Preferred Partner to deploy

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Customer Resources

Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization 2013

Forrester: End-To-End Application Acceleration Technologies Overcome SaaS Challenges

Video – Steelhead Cloud Accelerator and Office 365

Video – IT Performance is strategic for Data Center Transformation – Cloud Computing

Fast Facts – Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

Performance Brief – Steelhead Cloud Accelerator and Office 365

Case Study – Schneider Electric – Cloud Computing

White Paper – Can Cloud and High Performance Co-Exist?

ESG Analyst Paper – Overcoming Application Challenges

ESG: Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization

ESG: What's Needed For Cloud Computing

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