Location Independent Computing for Office 365

Application Performance
and Office 365
Dormain Drewitz
Director, Platform Product Marketing
@dormaindrewitz
Getting contracts approved is a time-consuming process that
involves pushing large amounts of data to our central office in
Orlando... Since it wasnt possible to duplicate our main business
systems and processes in our Japanese offices, it was taking up to
30 minutes to complete the IT portion of the contracts process.
Users, apps, and data are everywhere

4
62%
Source: Forrester, Provisioning a
Flexible Workplace Pushes the
Boundaries of IT and Drives a Search
for Outside Help, June 2012
of employees work
in multiple locations
51%
Source: Forrester, Think Youve
Mastered Application Performance?
Think Again, July 2013
Say application
complexity is their
primary challenge
52%
Source: Forrester, Successfully
Consolidating Branch-Office
Infrastructure in the Face of More
Users, Services, and Devices, October
2011
Have over 50% of
their corporate
data outside the
data center
The Promise
of Location-
Independent
Computing
Provide a great customer
experience for users accessing
their applications and data,
regardless of where they are
connecting from or where they
are connecting to.




Network Conditions impact
application performance
EMEA
WAN
INTERNATIONAL
WAN
N. AMERICA
WAN
Domestic
Network
Internet
IP VPN
30 ms
Paris
Lexington (US) St. Louis (US)
110 ms ??? ms
A broad, diverse ecosystem of partners that extend the value of our
platform and deliver a range of implementation, integration, and value-
added services.

Riverbed Application Performance Platform

Enhanced Visibility & Control
1%
Volume
Exchange
DB-1
Home-1
Video-1
Reports Optimization
VISIBILITY
Show real time bandwidth consumption and application flow statistics
Report application specific performance
Intelligently tune QoS and plan upgrades
CONTROL
Application based inbound and outbound QoS
Accurate classification with AppFlow Engine and DPI
Policy-based path selection on Hybrid Networks
Application layer policy, routing and control

Home
Directory
Data
Training
Videos
ERP
Data
Email
Data
Medium Priority

High Priority

LowPriority

Data & Transport Streamlining

Transport Streamlining

Bandwidth & Latency Optimization
DE-DUPLICATE DATA
Data
USERS
CLOUD
WAN
VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE APPLICATION LATENCY
USERS
WAN
CLOUD
Architecture
Data Center
Cloud
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Internet
MPLS
Branch
SteelCentral
Changing ADC Requirements
Close proximity of ADC to App
Static environment
Monolithic in nature
ADC
Web Tier App Tier DB Tier
App
Traffic
Old Architecture Apps, Data Location Dependent
App/Data broken into pieces
Distributed in nature
Dynamic environment
Object reuse and scale necessary
ADC must be near objects, deployed per object
User access from anywhere on any device
Todays Architecture Apps, Data Location Independent
App Traffic
Data Center 1 Data Center 2
App Object
Cloud Service
Architecture
Data Center
Cloud
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Internet
MPLS
Branch
SteelCentral
Branch
Lots of users
Limited IT staff
Minimal infrastructure

E C
Branch converged infrastructure
What makes converged infrastructure different for branch offices?
Data Center
Minimal users
Lots of IT staff
Optimized infrastructure

Architecture
Data Center
Cloud
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Internet
MPLS
Branch
SteelCentral
Data protection in the cloud
Enterprise
Vault
Glacier
S3
Backup Server
Atmos
Database Server
File Server
Archive
Files
Architecture
Data Center
Cloud
Internet
SaaS
IaaS
Internet
MPLS
Branch
SteelCentral
Programmable infrastructure
APIs Python modules
A broad, diverse ecosystem of partners that extend the value of our
platform and deliver a range of implementation, integration, and value-
added services.

Riverbed Application Performance Platform

With Riverbed, we can provide senior management with
information on the IT infrastructure that can help them make
better business decisions that save money, resources and
efficiencies. This has elevated our IT group from just
providing a utility to contributing meaningfully to the
business.
- Christophe Duprat, IT director, International Herald Tribune
Location Independent Computing for Office 365
Australia
Singapore (4,000 miles)
Riverbed SteelHead
boosts performance of
Office 365
Easy deployment for Office 365 acceleration
WAN and Internet optimization
Up to 30X better application performance
Up to 97% bandwidth reduction
Optimizes Exchange, SharePoint
and OneDrive Pro online
WAN
123.9
54.7
3.8
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Office 365
23.38
11.87
0.54
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Office 365
Optimized- 2nd and Subsequent transfers Optimized- 1st Transfer No Optimization
Office 365 sees performance benefitsand more
25
TIME REQUIRED: Seconds to download a 20.8MB file from SharePoint Online
Bandwidth: MBs used to download a 20.8MB file from SharePoint Online
33X FASTER
MORE THAN
A 97% DATA
REDUCTION
Consulting Solutions for Office 365
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Launching a complete portfolio of professional services that support enterprise
customers throughout the migration process from planning into production and
beyond.
Migration Planning
and Readiness Service
Mailbox Migration
Optimization Service
Performance Monitoring
and Troubleshooting Service
End-User Performance
Optimization Service
Riverbed SteelHead benefits for Office 365

IMPROVED EXCHANGE & SHAREPOINT RESPONSE TIMES
Up to 30 times faster

MAILBOX MIGRATION
Quantify the time needed for mailbox migration
Design a process for timely migration
NETWORK PERFORMANCE
Avoid network bandwidth upgrades
QoS & Path Selection can prioritize business-critical applications
Appflow engine provides application visibility via deep packet inspection
Summary
Office 365 drives business impact with a rich set
of capabilities
Riverbed offers the most complete, holistic
approach to application performance
You can accelerate Office 365 migrations and
ongoing performance with Riverbed






Learn More here: www.riverbed.com/office365
THANK YOU
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