Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

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Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

Optimization for SaaS Applications in the hybrid cloud

Joe Ghory – Sr. Product Marketing Manager;

Riverbed

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The Cloud Is

Full of SaaS!

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What Makes the Public Cloud Attractive

ELASTIC

CAPACITY

OPEX

VS

CAPEX

FASTER

TIME TO

MARKET

COST

EFFECTIVE

UPTIME

RELIABILITY

SOMEONE

ELSES

PROBLEM

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DATA CENTERS / CLOUD

BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS

WAN

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Distance Gap Between Data Centers and Users

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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Distance Gap Between Data Centers and Users

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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Distance Gap Made Worse by Backhaul WAN Topology

• 80% of Enterprises Back Haul

• Internet inefficiencies impact performance and availability

• Optimization

cannot

extend to SaaS data center

SaaS DATA CENTER

Boston

CORPORATE DATA CENTER

Los Angeles

BRANCH OFFICE

Miami

Back Haul

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SaaS Application Performance Problems

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140 Application Access

2 sec

120 sec

Accessing a 10 MB PPT Document on Office 365

60x SLOWER

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Riverbed + Akamai – Combining Fast with Fast

• Footprint

• Unique Technology

• Expertise

• Footprint

• Unique Technology

• Expertise

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WAN

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Key Features

Fast End User Performance / Productivity

High Availability and Bandwidth Optimization

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Customer Results

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World’s largest ball bearing manufacturer

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46,000 Employees

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SaaS App: Microsoft Office 365

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Users in China, Singapore, India,

and Sweden

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All users access Office 365 DC in Dublin

(IRL)

Up to 52x

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Up to 24x

Faster



Annual turnover – €20 Billion (EUR)

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SaaS App: Salesforce

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Users in Europe and United States

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Salesforce Data Center in Virginia (USA)

Customer Results

Global Energy

Company

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Summary

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SaaS is the heart of Cloud and growing fast

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In global deployments, performance is a problem

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Industry Leaders in WAN and Internet performance

combine fast with fast

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Result: Industry 1

st

_{- Global SaaS with Local Performance}

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