Why you need visibility and control more than ever to monitor, manage and accelerate enterprise applications.

1. Cascade 10.5: Visibility & Control
Why you need it more than ever
to monitor, manage and
accelerate enterprise applications
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2. Introducing Cascade 10.5 –
Integrating Visibility & Control
Application Visibility Anywhere
Delivers deep application intelligence and network visibility required
to prioritize business-critical applications over less-critical
applications
Responsiveness & Control
Real-time application visibility to guarantee the quality of service
across the WAN optimized environment and to control network and
IT resources with business and application priorities
Accelerate Business
A single solution that allows customers to do more with their
existing Steelhead investment by delivering application
acceleration anywhere while enhancing end-user experience and
visibility
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3. It’s a Challenge to Manage and Control
Performance in Face of Complexity
Social
Mobile
Big Data
Cloud
I need to make sure that no matter
where my users are accessing the applications –
mobile, cloud, and remote offices or corporate sites,
the performance is consistent
and if problems do occur, I have answers, fast!
User
Experience
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4. Business Suffers with Poor Application
Performance
Significant Financial Loss
Downtime costs $100k/hour…or more
Forrester, Managing The Performance Of Critical Applications, October 2010
Pervasive Problem
75% of businesses
suffer from slow apps, slow networks, slow websites
IT Decision Makers, IDG Research Services, January 2013
No Simple Solution
70% lack ability to stay ahead of problems
IT Decision Makers, IDG Research Services, January 2013
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5. There is a Growing Tidal Wave of Web
Applications
by 2014
48% of apps
will be web-based
9% will be
mobile apps
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Source: Forrester, Feb 2012
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6. Today’s Network – It “ain’t” Simple!
Cloud, SaaS &
3rd Party Apps
Hybrid Networks
INTERNET
End-User Devices
WAN
Branches
QoS
Multi-Tier
Applications
Unified
Communications
Data Center
Data Center
Data Center
Data Center
Virtualization & Consolidation
Data Center
Optimization & ADCs
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7. The Foundation
Application & Network Visibility
End-User
End-User Experience
What Are
End-Users Actually
Experiencing?
How Are Application
Transactions Impacting Users?
How Well is the Network
Delivering Applications?
Seconds to Minutes
Transactions
Application Transactions
Seconds
Packet
Network Flow
Milliseconds
Network
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8. Visibility is Required
Visibility is the glue
that empowers both the
business and the IT teams
with the insight they need to
make effective resourcing
decisions and to resolve
problems faster.
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9. What Does App Visibility Look Like?
Traditional NPM
Riverbed Cascade
(Limited visibility)
(Deep application visibility)
Exchange
Facebook
Port 443
YouTube
Port 80
SharePoint
Port 1494
Video
UDP
Citrix
Voice
• Both Cascade Shark and Steelhead now have deep packet
inspection (DPI) built-in
• Recognize 1000+ business and recreational applications
• Automatically classify any custom web applications
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10. New – Application Intelligence via DPI
Application level visibility
anywhere - the WAN and
the hybrid network
• Detect which applications are
traversing the network
• Recognize popular business and
recreational apps
• Gain insight into app type, usage who used it, when, from where
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11. New - VoIP Call Quality Visibility
● Troubleshoot important
VoIP applications quickly
● Gain insight into branch
to branch or peer to peer
traffic
● See at-a-glance:
– % real time packet
(RTP) loss
– Jitter
– MOS (mean opinion
score)
– R Factor
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12. New - Extended QoS “Shaping” and
Visibility
● Understand whether QoS settings in Steelhead by application are meeting
expectations with new shaping and enforcement reporting in Cascade
● Identify traffic flow per class/user- drill into areas that matter
(applications/users/IPs per class drilldown)
● Detect under or over provisioned rules
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13. New – Continuous Packet Capture at the
Branch
● Continuous packet capture in
Steelhead EX eliminates branch
office blind spot
Shark on Steelhead EX
● Introduces visibility into many
important applications which
bypass the data center
– VoIP, Video, SaaS, Direct-toNet, IP VPN
● No need to deploy additional
probes or remote office hardware
Customers can do more with their
Steelhead investment
Use existing Steelhead footprint for
proactive troubleshooting
Cascade is the only NPM solution
built-into Steelhead!
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14. New Milestone Integrates Application
Aware NPM and WAN Optimization
App Visibility Anywhere
●
Deep packet inspection (DPI) of over 1000
applications now in Cascade Shark and Steelhead.
●
Real-time collaboration and unified communication
visibility and monitoring for enhanced branch-tobranch monitoring via Cascade Profiler
New Integration
Steelhead
RiOS 8.5
Cascade
10.5
Responsiveness & Control
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Centralized monitoring of Steelhead QoS policies
with reporting in Cascade Profiler to visualize under
or over-provisioning of bandwidth
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Path selection technology leverages application
visibility to help prioritize and control delivery of
business-critical applications over faster networks
Accelerate Business
●
Manage, Monitor, Accelerate
Applications Anywhere, to
Anyone, On One Platform
All in one solution to do more with existing
Steelhead footprint at the branch with addition of
continuous packet capture
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