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PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed Steelhead Product FamilyRIVERBEDSTEELHEADPRODUCT FAMILYIMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY ANdENABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATIONToday, tens of thousands of organizations rely onWAN optimization as the foundation for deliveringapplication and data transfer performance.With WAN optimization solutions, you can achieveextraordinary application performance gains andlightening-fast data transfer over hybrid networks.You can overcome bandwidth and geographicallimitations, improve productivity, and enable globalcollaboration across consolidated data centers anddistributed branch offices, in virtualized and cloudenvironments, and on the go.Acceleration Everywhere.with IT Visibility andcontrol.Powered by the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS )
PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed Steelhead Product FamilyCENTRALIZE AND REDUCE OPERATIONAL OVERHEADWHILE IMPROVING END-USER SATISFACTIONOur award winning Steelhead WAN optimization products have beenproven to dramatically speed up applications in some of the most demandingcustomer environments. Companies of all sizes depend on Riverbed to helpmeet end-user expectations regardless of device, location, or application allwhile enhancing control and visibility over their entire networks.KEY Benefits» Increase performanceon the WAN for TCPapplications up to 100times, and, for specificapps, 100 times or more» Select the best path forapplication accelerationeverywhere, usingdeep packet inspection(DPI)-based applicationawareness to distinguishbetween businesscritical and recreationaltraffic» Cut complexityand improve enduser experience byconsolidating files,email and applicationservers, and storageacross branches» Reduce risk by enablingspeedy, resilient, andsecure replicationand backup over theWAN (often reducingreplication times fromhours to minutes)» Defer costly networkbandwidth upgradesby reducing bandwidthutilization up to 99%» Comply withregulations, such asSOX, HIPAA, and PCIby optimizing SSL trafficwithout compromisingthe end-to-end trustmodel» Gain visibility andcontrol by determiningwhere problems exist,what is causing theproblems, and how bestto solve those problems» Deliver local-qualityperformance to remoteworkers regardless oftheir location“Microsoft SharePoint is vital to our success and Riverbed WANoptimization has played a critical role in enabling our distributedemployees to be productive and collaborative. With the new SharePoint2013 optimization from Riverbed, we will be able to take advantage ofthe new features in SharePoint, which is a strategic part of our continuedsuccess and growth.”- Kurt Anderson, CIO, GeoEngineers2
PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed Steelhead Product FamilyAN INTEGRATED APPROACH TODELIVERING OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCEOur Steelhead solutions help organizations run faster and more efficiently, ensuringconsistent service levels while cutting IT infrastructure costs.IT consolidation:LAN-like performance over the WANVirtualization:The “serverless” branch officeBoomerang Email: 6.4 MB email attachment over T1 WAN –Time to Complete (in seconds)MS Excel, Word, PPT, and EXE File Transfer (25.9 MB Total) over T1 WAN Time to Complete (in seconds)Subsequent Steelhead TransfersSubsequent Steelhead TransfersMore than 63x fasterFirst Steelhead TransferFirst Steelhead TransferWithout SteelheadWithout Steelhead0102030405060708090 100 110 120 130More than 60x faster050100150200250300Boomerang Email — 63 times faster with Steelhead WAN optimization.File Transfers in Seconds Using SMB3 - 60 times faster performance for for subsequent Steelhead transfers withSteelhead WAN Optimization.Consolidated IT infrastructure can simplify management,increase resource utilization, and reduce costs. But it canoften result in diminished application performance and userproductivity, which offsets any cost savings.Moving servers and storage out of the branch and into datacenters — where they can be more efficiently aggregated,managed, and secure — allows you to deliver more cost-effectiveaccess back to end users across the WAN and Internet.With Steelhead, users can access consolidated IT resourceswithout compromising performance.Putting Steelhead appliances in place also can help optimize yourVMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V edge services, such asprinting or security.In these scenarios, with no more complex build-outs or remoteservers to buy, install, and manage, you can set up your branchesmore quickly and efficiently while also lowering overhead andincreasing user productivity.Cloud computing: Moving into the cloudWhether you are creating a private cloudinfrastructure or outsourcing to Software-as-aService providers such as Salesforce.com or Office365, the limitations on network bandwidth andlatency still remain. End users are far away fromthe data and applications they are trying to access,resulting in poor user response and inefficientapplication and data delivery.InternetTMSAASDeploying Steelhead appliances is a great wayto defeat both these problems, while alsosaving money on costly bandwidth upgrades.In short, they can be the driving force toenable consolidation to private or public cloudarchitectures and a faster path from end usersto applications.CloudCloudIAASSteelhead Cloud WAN optimization regardless of location – you decide where the data lives. We’ll make sure it’s optimized.3350
PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed Steelhead Product FamilyMOBILITY AND DISASTER RECOVERYBusiness continuity and disaster recovery:Enhanced data protectionOur mobile WAN optimization solution can help you addressthe inherent problems of a distributed workforce, such ashigh-latency and inconsistent connectivity from changinglocations. This enables you to increase employee productivitywherever employees work. Steelhead appliances will also helpyour organization optimize continuity and recovery across arange of backup, replication, and cloud storage mechanismswithout disrupting your current infrastructure — ensuring theprotection of existing investments.NetApp SnapMirror Network Compression and Riverbed Steelhead WANOptimization over 155 Mbps WAN – Time to Complete (in minutes)27 times fasterFinancial DB (33.4 GB)Mobility and BYOD:Enabling a remote workforce13 times fasterCorporate Email (6.7 GB)SharePoint HTTP File Save: 6.14 MB file via Verizon Wirelessv620 Broadband Card (788Kbps with 200ms RTT latency) –Time to Complete (in seconds)Subsequent Steelhead File Transfers16 times fasterVirtual Machines (6.3 GB)45 times fasterFile Server Data (5 GB)0More than 63x faster100200300400500600First Steelhead File TransferNetApp SnapMirror Steelhead(without SnapMirror network compression)Without Steelhead0102030405060708090NetApp SnapMirror(with SnapMirror network compression)NetApp SnapMirror Data Replication – LAN-like performance with Steelhead WAN Optimization.With Steelhead, you can perform WAN-based backups or datareplication without struggling to finish jobs in a tight backupwindow. It supports leading enterprise storage solutions, includingEMC2, Hitachi Data Systems , as well as NetApp SnapMirror datareplication and disaster recovery solutions.SharePoint HTTP File Save — 63 times faster with Steelhead Mobile.It can be a struggle to support mobile users who need access tocorporate data and applications. In fact, mobile users often haveto accept sub-optimal performance.With accelerated replication — up to 45 times — you can take morefrequent snapshots and dramatically improve your recovery timein the event of a failure. We have advanced features for high-end,data-center-to-data-center disaster recovery, including enhancementsfor optimized throughput, tunable compression, and clusteringfor high availability and scalability. You also can use Steelheadappliances to dynamically adapt to “fill the pipe” for high-bandwidthenvironments, or to adopt higher compression, deduplication,QoS, traffic identification, and path selection to limit the impact onbandwidth for other applications on a shared WAN.Riverbed Steelhead Mobile software extends our award-winningtechnology to any PC or laptop to deliver acceleration whereverusers connect. With Steelhead Mobile, applications run faster,and remote workers have the applications they need anytime,anywhere. Now, bring your own device (BYOD), mobilityinitiatives, and desktop virtualization solutions can be optimizedfor use on the WAN.“Without Riverbed, we would have had to make a substantial investmentin bandwidth. Now, we are saving an average of USD 144,000 per monthand have seen a return on investment within seven months.”Riad Mounir, Director of IT, Zain Group Architectures.4
PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed Steelhead Product FamilyRiOS: THE POWER BEHIND THE FAMILYAll Steelhead products are built on the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS ), which powers theproduct family through a combination of TCP optimization, application-level protocol optimizations,path selection, and patent-pending data reduction. These technologies, along with the RiOSmanagement capabilities, provide a comprehensive solution for enterprise WAN optimization.Hybrid networks: Greater application reliability and performanceWith path selection technology in thelatest version of RiOS (8.5), IT organizationscan deploy and manage hybrid networksthat combine the strengths of a highlyreliable MPLS network with the benefits ofthe Internet — ubiquity, price, and speed.This delivers greater application reliability,performance, and cost savings in datacenters, branch offices, and, private orpublic clouds while retaining IT control andminimizing complexity.Path selection identifies the applicationsusing deep packet inspection (DPI)-basedapplication awareness to distinguishbetween business-critical and recreationaltraffic. You can use it to map applicationsto the appropriate paths available acrossthe WAN and, in the case of performanceissues, dynamically reroute applicationsto ensure no impact to users. It is simpleto configure and can be used with otherperformance management tools thatwe provide without complex and tightlycoupled router configurations.1 Private NetworksCloud2 Internet VPNsSaaSInternet3 Local Internet accessIaaSInternetBranchMPLSData CenterRiverbed Path Selection Technology enables IT organizations to deploy and manage hybrid networks to deliver greater applications reliability,performance, and cost-savings in data centers, branch offices, and clouds while retaining control and minimizing complexity.RiOS: Four streamlining technologies» Data streamlining Reduces bandwidth utilization byup to 99% Industry leading scalability andpatented de-duplication Works with TCP-based protocolsand applications including: filesharing (Windows and NFS),email (Exchange and LotusNotes ), CAD, web-basedHTTP and HTTPS applications,databases (Oracle ), virtualdesktops (Citrix and VMware )and collaboration software(SharePoint). Works with UDP-based filetransfer applications, includingSigniant, Aspera and Symantec’sVeritas Volume replicator» Application streamlining» Transport streamlining Offers the broadest support forapplication-specific modulesto provide performanceimprovements on top of thedata and transport streamliningoptimization performed on allTCP traffic Reduces the number of TCPpackets required to transfer databy 65 to 98% Enables the acceleration ofSSL-encrypted traffic throughoutthe enterprise to eliminate thesecurity and performancetrade-off Reduces application protocolchattiness up to 98% Enables greater utilization ofhigh bandwidth links (long fatnetworks, such as OC3, OC12,and metrofiber) for HS-TCP andMX-TCP Minimizes application overheadto provide massive throughputincreases to such applicationsas file sharing (CIFS, SMB2/3,and NFS), collaboration software(Sharepoint), email (Exchange,including Office 365 and MAPI,and Lotus Notes), web (HTTP andHTTPS), database (MS-SQL andOracle), and storage and disasterrecovery (NetApp SnapMirror) Supports satellite optimizationfor TCP links (based on SCPSextensions) over satelliteconnections that tend to be highlatency, dynamic bandwidth, orlossy due to signal-to-noise ratio5» Management streamlining Enables easy deployment throughauto-discovery of peers and autointerception of traffic — with noreconfiguration of clients, servers,or routers Simplifies ongoing managementby providing simple, but powerful,web-based and command-lineinterfaces, in-depth reporting, andreal-time NetFlow export Supports a vast array of networkenvironments and topologies,including but not limited to MPLS,VoIP, video conferencing, QoS,VPN, satellite infrastructure, ATM,frame relay, microwave,and wireless
PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed Steelhead Product FamilyProducts for any environmentand ORGANIZATIONSteelhead AppliancesCloud SteelheadSteelhead MobileAccelerate application performance anddata transfer over the WAN, overcomingbandwidth and geographical limitationsto improve productivity and enable globalcollaboration.Extend subscription-based WANoptimization to infrastructure as a service(IaaS) clouds. Authorized servers redirectconnections to the appropriate cloudappliance to accelerate performance.Improve mobile and remote userproductivity and experience with WANoptimization designed for Windows andMac based laptops.» Scalable for the deployment needs of any size» Supported on Amazon Web Services and VMwareESX-based clouds» Riverbed Granite and VSP capable for full branchoffice consolidation» Accelerate migration and access to the cloud» Deploy in minutes without changes to the existingIT infrastructure» Elastic sizing and easy cloning for the scale-asyou-go infrastructure» Support thousands of users with a deviceSteelhead Cloud AcceleratorInterceptorSimplify WAN optimization integrationinto cloud environments in order to moreefficiently manage the delivery of businesscritical data and content from a public cloudinfrastructure.Easily load balance and scale your networkwide throughput with the RiverbedInterceptor appliance. Cluster up to 25Steelhead appliances to manage 40 GBps ofthroughput.Central Management Console(CMC)Easily configure, monitor, upgrade, andreport on groups of Steelhead, VirtualSteelhead, and Interceptor appliances — allthrough one easy-to-use web interface.Available as a standalone appliance or CMCvirtual edition for deployment flexibility.» Extend WAN optimization to cloud services/Software as a Service (SaaS) to manage businesscritical data and content delivery and ensure peakapplication performance» Improve the performance of SaaS applications,such as Salesforce.com and Office 365 by upto 100x» Benefit from the Akamai deployment footprintand Akamai SureRoute technology to reducedistance, latency and packet loss» Improve remote employee access to files andapplications more than 19 times faster» Easily scale network performance to hundreds ofthousands of remote users» Manage the policies that determine whatoptimizations take place per user or groupsof usersSteelhead Mobile ControllerManage Steelhead Mobile licenses andcontrol the deployment, management,and reporting of Steelhead Mobile clientsoftware. Available in SMC standaloneappliance or SMC virtual edition fordeployment flexibility.» Gain real-time visibility into application andWAN performance» Access a single source for monitoring andlicense management» Receive one-touch software upgrades andhealth alertsVirtual SteelheadExtend WAN optimization and performanceto VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 based virtualenvironments.» Same application performance and data transferbenefits in a virtual appliance» Increase capacity on demandLEARN MOREOur award-winning WAN optimization products strategically enable IT to centralize and reduce operational overhead and expense,while improving end-user satisfaction. Our products have been proven in some of the most demanding and complex networks in the world,with thousands of customer deployments.To learn more about Riverbed Steelhead products, please visit riverbed.com/steelhead. 2013 Riverbed Technology. All rights reserved. Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners.The trademarks and logos displayed herein may not be used without the prior written consent of Riverbed Technology or their respective owners.*Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions ofGartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.CS-SHCX100813
Steelhead Cloud WAN optimization regardless of location - you decide where the data lives. We'll make sure it's optimized. Virtualization: The "serverless" branch office MS Excel, Word, PPT, and EXE File Transfer (25.9 MB Total) over T1 WAN - Time to Complete (in seconds) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 Without Steelhead
