Modernizing Edge IT with Riverbed SteelFusion

Alison Conigliaro Hubbard Senior Director of Product Marketing, Riverbed, SteelFusion

SteelFusion Modernizing Edge IT

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55 remote IT facilities for every large datacenter Edge is Where Business Gets Done

Source: IDC 2013. Enhancing Business Value with an Edge-Optimized Virtual Server and Storage Delivery Solution


Poor User Experience Cost-Inefficient

Edge IT Challenges

At Risk

nearly half of all employees work in branch offices

50% data resides outside

the data center branch offices represent roughly half of IT budget

High Complexity, Lack of Agility Lack of Performance Security Risk and Downtime

50% 50% $

Source: Riverbed Feb, 2015. DATA CENTER AND BRANCH OFFICE RESILIENCY


Edge Legacy

Datacenter Innovation


ü  No servers. No storage. No backup.

ü  Instant provisioning. Instant recovery.

ü  Complete data security. Full visibility.

ü  Apps that simply work.


Modernizing Edge IT with a Software-Defined Edge

Simplify edge infrastructure

Consolidate infrastructure at the edge

Make edges stateless Centralize data from the edges

to the datacenter

Software-define the edge Control the

personality of the edge in software


Infrastructure Business

Modern Edge IT Investment Considerations

§  Compute §  Storage §  Backup §  WAN Optimization §  Encryption §  Hybrid Networking

§  ROBO Provisioning §  ROBO Recovery §  Data Security §  Data Protection §  Storage Management §  Cloud Adoption

§  User Productivity §  Site Productivity §  High Application Uptime §  Application Performance §  Business Continuity §  Business Agility

Operations


Modernizing Edge IT Major Government Agency Social Media Giant

§ 85 Remote Locations and 2 Data Centers

§ Fixed Failed VDI Deployment § Data Security § Disaster Recovery

§ Substantial operational cost reduction

§ Centralized ROBO operations § Business Continuity § Compliance, Security


User Productivity

Security & Performance

Operational Agility

Business Continuity

100% data secured in the data center and encrypted end-to-end.

Local performance & availability at the branch.

30x faster deployment of branch services & sites.1

100% centralized management.

100x faster recovery time (RTO).1

Milliseconds or seconds of data loss vs. hours or days (RPO).1

Up to 100x increase in branch application performance.

On-premises & cloud.

1Source: Taneja Group: April, 2014. CONVERGING BRANCH IT INFRASTRUCTURE THE RIGHT WAY

A Better Solution for Edge IT

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END-TO-END VISIBILITY

APP-DEFINED NETWORKING

SOFTWARE-DEFINED EDGE

RIVERBED APPLICATION PERFORMANCE PLATFORM™

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