The document discusses Riverbed Granite, a new architectural approach that enables organizations to consolidate IT infrastructure by pulling data from the edge to the data center. Key benefits include lower costs, reduced risk, improved security, and reliable control. Granite 2.5 extends these benefits by adding Fibre Channel support to connect virtual Granite Cores to storage, expanding snapshot scheduling to simplify data protection management across branches, and integrating with data center backup applications.

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● A new architectural approach to
enable complete IT consolidation
● Pull back data from the edge and
manage it in the data center
– Lower cost
– Reduced risk
– Improved security
– Reliable control
Granite
Riverbed Granite

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What Granite Enables for IT
Consolidate
Servers &
Storage
Centralize
Backup
Operations
Secure Edge
Data
Quickly
Provision &
Recover
Granite
CONTROL
COST SAVINGS
30-50%

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USERS & CUSTOMERS
GRANITE CORE
WAN
GRANITE EDGE
BRANCH DATA CENTER
IT DEPARTMENT
BLOCK-LEVEL
PRE-FETCHDEDUPLICATION
AUTHORITATIVE
BLOCK CACHE
Granite Technology

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Deliver
Greater Edge
Performance
Extend
Consolidation
Reach
Streamline
Protection,
Reduce Risk
Q3 2013 Granite Launch
 Granite 2.5
 EX1360 series appliances

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● New Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) support
– Connects virtual Granite Core to storage via FC in data center
– Opens consolidation opportunity to large enterprise install base
● Expands interoperability to 90% of SAN market
Granite 2.5
Extend Consolidation to More Data Centers
FC
69%
~$10.45Bx
iSCSI
22%
~$3.38B
Gartner Forecast: External Controller-Based Disk Storage, Worldwide, All Countries, 2011-2017

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Fibre Channel Support Details
● Supported on all vGC configurations
● Customer provides ESXi host with FC host bus adapter (HBA)
– Support for ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 5.1
– Leverages VMware qualification of storage arrays and switches
– Projected FC LUNs available as iSCSI disk targets on Granite Edge

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EX1360
Extend Consolidation to More Branches
● Serve high-performance workloads in the branch
– Features more compute resources and faster cache
– Run more demanding applications directly from Granite
(e.g., database apps)
– Consolidate while ensuring edge user productivity
● Consolidate more data
– Provides 10TB useable edge cache capacity

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EX1360
Models & Specs
● Three new models: EX1360G, EX1360L, EX1360M
● Granite license included
● Delivers 1700 IOPS and 10TB edge cache
● Features 8 cores and 64GB RAM for VSP
Model WAN Optimization
Granite
Disk
VSP
Resources
EX1360G N/A – Granite-only 10TB
8-core CPU
64GB RAM
EX1360L
• 50 Mbps
• 4500 connections
• 320GB segstore
10TB
8-core CPU
64GB RAM
EX1360M
• 100 Mbps
• 6000 connections
• 320GB segstore
10TB
8-core CPU
64GB RAM

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Granite 2.5
Streamline Data Protection Management
● Snapshot scheduler simplifies management of branch
application snapshots
– Centrally configure schedules for all branches from a single UI
– Save administrator time and effort
● Reduce risk by ensuring application recoverability
– Capture “application consistent” snapshots of branch applications
on data center storage (EMC, NetApp, Dell EqualLogic)

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Granite 2.5
Simplify Data Center Backup Integration
● Snapshot handling process simplifies backup of branch
data in the data center
– Integrates pre- and post-backup scripts into Granite
– Makes disk snapshots easily available to backup proxy
– Simplifies data protection with data center backup applications
(e.g., Symantec NetBackup)
● Give organizations the assurance that valuable branch
data is protected
Backup
Proxy
Disk
Snapshot
Data Center