ABCD's of WAN Optimization
- 1. ABCD’s of WAN Optimization
- 2. Today’s workplace reality More Distance More Sites More Data in More Places More Demands on IT
- 3. Top IT Spending Priorities Cost reduction Disaster Recovery / Business Continuance Planning Server Virtualization Server Consolidation Datacenter Consolidation . . . 10 WAN Optimization / Application Acceleration Source: Goldman Sachs “IT Spending Survey: Downturn takes its toll”, US Technology Strategy: Independent Insight, Goldman Sachs, 3/9/2009, exhibit 17.
- 4. Brief into to Riverbed The pioneer and market leader in WAN Optimization A profitable public company (RVBD) Over $394 million in revenue in 2009 Global sales and support operations A trusted IT supplier to over 7000 enterprise customers More than 80,000 appliances shipped around the world >55% of the global 100 have deployed Riverbed The vendor with the best products in the market. Steelhead appliances offer best performance across key applications. They are the most scalable solutions on the market And the easiest to deploy and manage 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- 5. Understanding Riverbed’s Value is as Easy as ABCD Bandwidth Optimization Reduce WAN traffic by 65-95% Defer bandwidth upgrades Do more with less Consolidation/Cloud Consolidate servers from branch to datacenter Consolidate servers at branch LAN-like performance access Disaster Recovery Backup (and recover) in less time Little impact to WAN Achieve RTO and RPO objectives Application Acceleration Dramatically faster response times Improved user productivity Hundreds of apps from Citrix to SharePoint
- 7. Key Applications Perform Well on LANs Typical LAN Throughput 100Mbps 1.5Mbps 100ms RTT Hundreds of TCP apps Citrix / RDP SharePoint (HTTP) Exchange (MAPI) MS-Office (CIFS) Application ~25Mbps 5Mbps 70Mbps 25Mbps 40Mbps
- 8. But Perform Poorly Over WANs Typical LAN Throughput Typical WAN Throughput 100Mbps 1.5Mbps 100ms RTT Hundreds of TCP apps Citrix / RDP SharePoint (HTTP) Exchange (MAPI) MS-Office (CIFS) Application ~25Mbps 5Mbps 70Mbps 25Mbps 40Mbps ~1Mbps 100Kbps 1Mbps 500Kbps 200Kbps 200 times slower! 50 times slower! 70 times slower! 50 times slower! 25 times slower!
- 9. Riverbed’s Industry-leading Performance Riverbed’s formula for LAN-like Performance for Key Applications Layer-7 protocol optimization + WAN data deduplication + TCP acceleration CIFS CIFS signed CIFS print Mac CIFS MAPI MAPI 2K3 MAPI 2K7 MAPI crypto MAPI prepop Lotus Notes HTTP SSL Oracle Forms ICA NFS Riverbed
- 10. Customer Proof Point – Application Acceleration Background A top 200 law firm in the U.S. Need to enable inter-office collaboration Key applications - LexisNexis Interaction CRM, Hummingbird DOCS Open Results Eliminated more than 20 non-billable hours per attorney working in remote offices $980,000 in productivity gains by eliminating long downloads Download of litigation case files -- 22 minutes to 8 seconds Key Benefits Centalized CRM made client information accessible at all times Avoided costly bandwidth upgrades Attorneys more productive and able to collaborate “ Riverbed is ahead of the competition in its ability to support all of our critical protocols. This was our winning solution.” Frank Gillman, Director of Technology
- 12. Reduce Bandwidth Costs with Steelhead Appliances and Mobile Cut bandwidth utilization 60% - 95% Riverbed patented technology Optimize connections from branches and mobile workers Avoid bandwidth upgrades Effectively increase WAN capacity up to 5x WAN DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE MOBILE WORKERS Interceptor (Optional) Steelhead Appliance (Optional out-of-path deployment) Steelhead Appliance (In-path deployment) Steelhead Mobile (Software deployment)
- 13. Customer Proof Point – Reducing Bandwidth Costs Background Global telecom equipment manufacturer 3,000 offices worldwide, 79,000 employees Results IT Administrators managing between 30 - 60 servers each Over 250 sites already deployed, scaling to 700 Key benefits $600,000 in annual bandwidth savings $4,500 productivity annual savings per user
- 15. Enabling Successful Consolidate IT to the Data Center Branch Office Consolidation Most branches still have many local servers Steelhead products enable consolidation of many of these servers to the data centers / private cloud Enables customers to cut IT costs and save money WAN File Servers Mail Servers Web Servers Storage DATA CENTER File Servers Mail Servers Filers Tape Backup Filers Tape Backup MOBILE WORKERS BRANCH OFFICE
- 16. Customer Proof Point - Consolidation Background Global insurance company (16,000 employees) Distributed IT environment costly to maintain Deployed 100+ Steelhead appliances around the world Results Consolidated two data centers into one Consolidated 200 major applications and several thousand small applications into one location (including Microsoft Exchange) Removed IT infrastructure from many international offices Key benefits Projected cost savings of $30 million over five years Improved employee access to information globally “ An increasing amount of our international offices no longer need local IT professionals or significant local infrastructure.” Eoghan Doyle, Director of Infrastructure and Operations
- 18. Backup and DR: Where Riverbed Fits PRIMARY DATA CENTER File Servers Mail Servers Tape Backup Web Servers Storage DISASTER RECOVERY SITE Steelhead Appliance Disaster Recovery Acceleration High-Speed TCP (Optional) Max-Speed TCP (Optional) Storage BRANCH OFFICE Servers Filers WAN-based Backup 5x - 50x improvement in WAN-based backups Compress backups from 24 to 4 hours Behavioral Traffic Recognition for DR Applies to backups, replication, and large-scale data transfer MOBILE WORKFORCE Steelhead Appliance WAN/VPN Steelhead Appliance
- 19. Background Enterprise software firm developing business service management solutions Improve data protection by ensuring the shortest possible backup windows over the WAN Results Backup windows reduced from 24 to 6 hours Development cycles cut from 4 days to 1.5 days 90% reduction in bandwidth utilization Key benefits from deploying Riverbed Greater data security in the event of a loss Improved response times for employees in remote offices Customer Proof Point – Disaster Recovery “ Backup and replication was one of our top priority applications. Backup of remote Filers now takes roughly 6 to 8 hours, instead of 24 hours.” Pete Kinkead, Director of IT
- 20. Summary Understanding the value of WAN Optimization is as easy as ABCD Application Acceleration Bandwidth Optimization Consolidation / Cloud Disaster Recovery Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WAN optimization
Editor's Notes
- #3: Riverbed views the current business technology landscape being impacted in three critical ways: First I’d guess that you have more offices in more far away places than ever before – globalization, mergers, acquisitions, out-sourcing and off-shoring all contribute to a general trend that data is moving over longer and longer distances. Second, I’d guess that you have more data in more places than ever before. Over the last five or ten years, most of our customers have built regional or local data centers all over the world to support their operations. Once you have a data center, guess what – data begins to accumulate there in file servers, storage systems and application servers – once the data exists, it needs to be managed, backed up, moved and manipulated. And third, with all the data and applications being rolled out all around the world, and with all of the new regulations being imposed, I’d guess that the demands on your IT organizations have never been higher.