Customers and employees complaining about poor network performance or application delays? Want to put an end to the whining? Learn how combining visibility with WAN optimization delivers optimal performance for customers and employees regardless of location by watching this webinar from Riverbed. http://rvbd.ly/1OVbaQw

1. Today’s Speakers
Andre Kindness
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
Gillian Power
CIO
Lathrop & Gage LLP
Hansang Bae
CTO
Riverbed Technology

2. Detect & Fix Performance Problems Fast
Speed and customer experience are the top design parameters
Andre Kindness
Principal Analyst

3. Branch is where the work gets done, and it is 1000X more complex
than DataCenters Hospital

4. The WAN interweaves back-end systems with front-end systems of
engagement
Source: Forrester Research

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Finally, information and visibility are business imperatives

6. Where do we waste time, energy and resources?
MTTI MTTK MTTF MTTV
MTTR
Mean Time To Repair
Mean time to identify
Mean time to know
Mean time to fix
Mean time to validate

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Network
Visibility
-­‐
Realized
Gillian
M.
Power,
CIO

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About
Lathrop
&
Gage
LLP
§ Full-­‐Service
Law
Firm
§ 320
lawyers;
10
offices
in
the
US;
naGonally-­‐recognized
client
service
§ ConGnually
operaGng
for
more
than
140
years
§ IT
Environment
§ 10
offices
and
datacenter
private
cloud
connected
with
10GB
DWDM
circuits;
dual
MPLS
and
internet
connecGons
§ CriGcal
ApplicaGons
§ All
applicaGons
are
centralized
to
private
cloud
with
some
public
cloud
applicaGons
§ Long
tail
of
criGcal
applicaGons
e.g.
§ iManage,
Exchange,
Office,
SharePoint,
Thomson
Reuters
Elite
§ PracGce
specific
applicaGons
§ Cisco
UC
Manager
VoIP
and
video
conferencing

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Challenges:
The
CIO’s
PerspecBve
§ High-­‐touch,
high-­‐demand
customers
§ High
availability
of
centralized
infrastructure
§ Right-­‐sizing
WAN
links
§ Ge]ng
quick,
qualitaGve
understanding
of
“what’s
going
on”
§ Avoid
“chasing
network
phantoms”
and
losing
expensive
FTE’s
for
days
of
troubleshooGng
–
reduce
MTTR

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Riverbed
Improves
SLAs,
Confidence
§ SteelHead
with
QoS
and
Path
SelecGon
§ Changed
acGve-­‐passive
network
configuraGon
to
an
acGve-­‐acGve
one
§ Reduced
failover
Gme
to
5
seconds
(from
90)
§ 200%
to
300%
increase
in
network
capacity
§ Enhanced
performance
on
bandwidth-­‐intensive
apps
§ SteelCentral
performance
management
§ Real-­‐Gme
and
historical
visibility
excises
“network
phantoms”
and
shortens
MTTR
§ Enables
long-­‐range
capacity
planning

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Summary
§ Riverbed
investment
has
allowed
us
to
gain
mastery
in
running
our
own
private
cloud
§ Planning
for
increased
cloud
uGlizaGon
in
future
§ Impossible
to
consider
using
more
cloud
and
foregoing
the
elegance
and
luxury
of
Riverbed-­‐enabled
telemetry

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Detect & Fix in a Hybrid World
(as if troubleshooting isn’t hard enough!)

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The Enterprise IT footprint
as we know it…
Internet
Data Center
Branch
MPLS
Branch Branch
2014

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Internet
is evolving as the opportunity
to consolidate increases…
Internet
Data Center
MPLS
SaaS
Commoditized
application
workloads are
migrated to the
cloud
Branch Branch Branch
Cloud
Branch
storage is
consolidated
to the private
datacenter
Lower cost
broadband facilities
Direct-To-Internet
Branch
2015

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The Enterprise is adopting
SD-WAN (hybrid networking)
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Cloud
Data Center
MPLS
SD-XYZ
emerges…
Branch Branch Branch
SD-WAN emerges
as the flexible WAN
design of choice
Internet
Some custom
workloads are
migrated to the
Cloud
Branch network
functions are
offloaded to the
cloud
… and starts
to extend into
the branch 2016

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The branch needs to support
3 core types of workloads
MPLS
Internet
Data Center
Branch Branch Branch
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Cloud

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Enable hybrid cloud and
SD-WAN workloads
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Cloud
Data Center
MPLS
Branch Branch Branch
Internet
2016+

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Riverbed Application Performance Platform™
Platform for the Hybrid Enterprise/SD-WAN
Broad, diverse ecosystem of partners deliver a range of implementation,
integration, and value-added services
SteelScript™
SteelFusion™SteelHead™
SteelCentral™
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES

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Detect and Fix performance problems fast,
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