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Accelerating your Business

The Riverbed Performance Platform
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Why People Want Performance

USERS IT BUSINESS

“I want to go faster, “I need to create “I have to do more

from the office, the control for less,
road, my tablet, and by consolidating with greater
my phone. And I infrastructure, productivity, faster
want it now.” cutting costs, and changes, and faster
reducing data risks.” revenue growth.”

Businesses Want Performance Everywhere

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Why People Want Performance

USERS IT BUSINESS

16,000+ Customers Use Riverbed

for Performance Optimization
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The World is Complex

MOBILE WORKER CUSTOMERS CLOUD

USERS DATA CENTERS

DATA CENTERS / PRIVATE CLOUD

BRANCHES

USERS IT BUSINESS
Speed Control Productivity
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The Riverbed Unified Performance Platform

ANALYZE The Total Picture

STEELHEAD GRANITE STINGRAY
• Spotlight current pain • CASCADE
Map dependencies WHITEWATER
WAN Edge Virtual Server Application Delivery Network Performance Cloud Storage
Optimization •
Infrastructure Identify potential
Controller • Slash diagnosis time
Management Gateway

ACCELERATE The ROI from IT Investments

• Accelerate time-to-market • Optimize disaster recovery
• Accelerate apps • Cut bandwidth costs

CONTROL Private
“Think fast” “Virtual Edge of / Public Cloud and Branches
“Intelligent “Google for your “Cloud data at
your data center” application
• Consolidate IT delivery” • Protect
network” your fingertips”
applications & data
• Prioritize traffic • Leverage cloud

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Aligning for Peak Performance

“Only performance is reality.”
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Today’s Top Five IT Priorities*

“Which of the following initiatives are likely to be your IT

organization’s top technology priorities over the next 12 months?”

IMPROVE DISASTER RECOVERY 30%

SERVER VIRTUALIZATION 30%

MAJOR APPLICATION ROLLOUTS 29%

INCREASE DATA & APP SECURITY 27%

CONSOLIDATION 24%

SOURCE: ESG, 2012 (Note: Respondents can choose more than one answer)

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How You Can Take Advantage of the

Performance Platform
Accelerated User Flow
 Anytime, anywhere access to applications and information
 Faster collaboration, workflow, and time to market

Fluid Data Center

 High performance consolidation
 Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud flexibility
 Cost-effective, real time disaster recovery

Faster Business
 Faster ROI for technology investments
 Least risk in technology decisions
 Cut costs
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Accelerated User Flow

BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS DATA CENTERS / CLOUD

USERS DATA CENTER

• Productive Employees & Happy Customers • Global Intelligence
• Latency Issues • Peak Traffic Management
• Bandwidth Constraints • Disaster Recovery
• Tight Application SLAs • Cut Infrastructure Cost

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Accelerating User Flow with Riverbed

BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS DATA CENTERS / CLOUD

STEELHEAD STINGRAY
• Accelerate Applications up to 100x • Accelerate Applications Over the Internet
• Cut WAN Bandwidth 65-95% • Optimize Web Content for Greater Speed
• Improve Employee Productivity • Scale Applications
• Deploy in Branch, Data Center, Cloud • Improve App Resiliency
and Mobile Workers
• Leverage Cloud

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Accelerating User Flow with Riverbed

BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS DATA CENTERS / CLOUD

STEELHEAD STINGRAY

CASCADE
Real-time visibility to monitor, troubleshoot, and fine-tune end-to-end performance

USE THESE TECHNOLOGIES STAND-ALONE OR IN COMBINATION

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New: SaaS Optimization from Riverbed + Akamai

SAAS

50X FASTER
SaaS
Applications

WAN

BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS DATA CENTERS / CLOUD

 Akamai optimizes the internet

 Riverbed optimizes the applications
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CHALLENGE RESULT
• $3B revenue
• Cascade identified key
• 58 hospitals in 18 States bottlenecks in connectivity
• Poor performance across and application performance
clinical applications • Steelhead implemented at 50
• Thick Client & VDI locations for acceleration

“Riverbed not only helped us identify the problem, but solved the performance
problem so that remote apps feel local”

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Creating the Fluid Data Center

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without
strategy is the noise before defeat.”
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Simplify IT Operations While Accelerating Performance

Cascade
End-to-End Performance Monitoring

WebServer

Forms Server OracleDB 11g

WebServer
BRANCH PUBLIC CLOUDOracle ApplicationDATA CENTER / PRIVATE CLOUD
Server 12i
Forms Server
OracleDB 11g

WebServer

Instantly Understand Your IT

Dependencies

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Simplify IT Operations While Accelerating Performance

Steelhead
Comprehensive Wan Optimization

BRANCH PUBLIC CLOUD DATA CENTER / PRIVATE CLOUD

Consolidate & Migrate at Will

Backup & Replicate Up to 10x Faster
Cut Bandwidth by 65-95%

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Simplify IT Operations While Accelerating Performance

Granite
Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure

BRANCH PUBLIC CLOUD DATA CENTER / PRIVATE CLOUD

Consolidate Storage with Local Performance

“Project” Data Center to New Locations

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Simplify IT Operations While Accelerating Performance

Stingray
Application Delivery Controller

BRANCH PUBLIC CLOUD DATA CENTER / PRIVATE CLOUD

Load Balance Across Private & Public Cloud

Scale Application Infrastructure
Secure Applications

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Simplify IT Operations While Accelerating Performance

Whitewater
Cloud Storage Gateway

BRANCH PUBLIC CLOUD DATA CENTER / PRIVATE CLOUD

Protect Data Up to 20x Faster

Reduce Storage Costs by Up to 50%

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Simplify IT Operations While Accelerating Performance

Cascade
End-to-end Performance Monitoring

BRANCH PUBLIC CLOUD DATA CENTER / PRIVATE CLOUD

A Unified
Prove Approach to the
Performance Performance
Business

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Faster Business = Faster ROI

Investment, Benefit, and Cash Flow
Over Time per 100 Users
$180,000
$160,000
$140,000
$151,945
$120,000
$100,000
Average 6.9
$80,000
$60,218 $60,253 $60,855 Month
$60,000 Payback1
$40,000
$20,000 $12,691
$5,564 $5,564 $5,564
$0
-$20,000
-$40,000
Initial deployment Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

Annual benefit Annual Investment Cumulative Cash flow

Source: IDC, November 2009

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CHALLENGE RESULT
• Distributed IT expensive, • Windows & Exchange
hard to maintain consolidated to 2 data centers
• Performance issues for both with Steelhead
employees and customers • Online properties optimized
by Stingray

After an intensive evaluation covering the market, Walt Disney chose Riverbed based on its
performance, scalability and unmatched CUSTOMER references.

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Riverbed – Best Positioned for Performance

Technology Stability Support

5 1600+ 24

5 Years – InfoWeek 1600+ Employees 24/7 Global Support

Technology of the Year Global 18 Languages
4 Years – Gartner Profitable 4-Hour Parts
MQ Leader
Public (RVBD) Award-winning service

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Riverbed: Performance Today and Tomorrow

CLOUD
MOBILE WORKER CUSTOMERS

Performance Unique
Singular
Matters Approach
Vision
Productivity Proven Results Unified Performance
DATA CENTERS / PRIVATE CLOUD
Cost Cutting Great Products Platform
Control Unmatched Support Simple Yet
Customizable

BRANCHES

CUSTOMERS IT BUSINESS
What Challenges Should We Tackle First with You?
Speed Control Productivity
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The Riverbed Unified Performance Platform

The Total Picture
ANALYZE STEELHEAD
• Spotlight current pain
WAN Optimization
• Identify potential
• Map dependencies
CASCADE
• Slash diagnosis time Network Performance
Management

ACCELERATE The ROI from IT Investments

• Accelerate time-to-market WHITEWATER
• Accelerate apps Cloud Storage
Gateway
• Optimize disaster recovery
• Cut bandwidth costs
STINGRAY
Application Delivery
CONTROL Controller
Private / Public Cloud and Branches
• Consolidate IT • Cloud Balance
GRANITE
• Prioritize Traffic • Cloud Burst Edge Virtual Server
Infrastructure

DRIVE PERFORMANCE and CUT COSTS across your entire infrastructure

with a unified approach to performance

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
 Media/
Financial Services Professional Services Manufacturing A/E/C
Communications

Riverbed Solves Challenges for Companies

of all Types and Sizes

Energy

Healthcare/ Retail/Consumer
Service Providers US and Intl. Gov.
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Bio/Pharma Trans./Logistics
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Partnering for Channel Success

A World-class Channel for Sales Leverage

Service Providers System Integrators Distributors National VARs

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Aligning with Technology Leaders

Strategic Alliances for Greater Impact

DATA SYSTEMS

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How Riverbed can Help you Achieve This

ANALYZE • Executive Dashboards

• Behavioral Analytics
• Integrated Flow->Packet
• No stand-alone branch probes needed
• Leverage WAN Optimization Devices

ACCELERATE • Deduplication
Unique
•
•
Protocol Acceleration
Global Load Balancing
Technology
• Web Content Optimization
Capabilities

CONTROL • Consolidation
• (DC, Cloud, or branch)
• QoS
• Integrated App Firewall
• Burst & Scale on-demand

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and Cascade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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