Cloud Accelerator

The state of cloud adoption underscores the criticality of such strategies. As of 2018, 96% of enterprises are using some form of cloud services, while 99% of executives consider the cloud to be vital to their ongoing digital strategies.

Business Challenges

With the combination of digital transformation and recent global events, the complexity of applications, networks, endpoints, and places where business is conducted has reached unprecedented levels. Data centers and branch offices are no longer the focal points of the IT universe. Today’s digital landscape has expanded to multi-cloud, hybrid networks, and work-from-anywhere environments, along with an almost endless array of new cloud-based business applications and workloads traversing networks to widely-distributed users. With this complexity come growing concerns about IT agility, application performance, and cost containment.

Despite the advantages of cloud-based infrastructure, businesses cannot afford excessive downtime when migrating substantial workloads from on-premises to their chosen cloud vendor. Consequently, they are continually seeking ways to minimize these migration timelines.

Solution

Riverbed’s Cloud Accelerator solution extends subscription-based network optimization and application acceleration to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. With support for Microsoft Azure and AWS, the solution is especially effective for cloud migrations, eliminating network obstacles inherent in today’s data-intensive and distributed collaboration environments. It significantly enhances access and reliability for any workload from any location, including:

• Internal Apps: Data Center/proprietary apps, Collaborative, Email, SharePoint
• Line-of-Business Mission-critical Apps: Cross-Site Replication, Disaster Recovery
• Media: Video Streaming
• Tiered Storage: Hot data on premise, Cold data move to public cloud, Web Applications E-Business, Internet-facing web

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Use Case: Move to the Cloud with Greater Agility and Confidence

To fully leverage the flexibility and cost savings of the public cloud, enterprises must address latency and bandwidth limitations imposed by distance and unreliable last-mile networks. With the Riverbed Cloud Accelerator solution, IT and application teams gain the agility to meet business demands for new cloud services while overcoming these inherent performance challenges. During a cloud migration scenario, a virtual form factor of Riverbed® SteelHead™ CX is deployed from the provider’s marketplace. Once paired with an on-premises SteelHead (datacenter or branch), data and application migrations become significantly faster.

Once the migration is completed, traffic generated by IaaS-hosted application data accessed over the public Internet or MPLS circuits is significantly reduced, the adverse effects of high latency are diminished, and a superior end-user experience is achieved. Customers can expect file downloads to improve by up to 33 times and the amount of data traffic to decrease by up to 99%. These capabilities can also be extended to mobile workers, eliminating the unpredictability of dealing with last-mile networks, and ensuring users have fast, secure access to applications, no matter where they need it.

The Power of SteelHead – In the Cloud

With the cloud and a digital culture, we have more options than ever before for deploying enterprise architectures, however, the amount of data being accessed over increasingly complex, hybrid networks, and the distributed nature of workforces only make application reliability more unpredictable and complicated. Riverbed’s Cloud Accelerator removes performance barriers to enterprise-class public cloud deployments by combining market leading Riverbed WAN optimization technology along with a purpose-built cloud portal for manageability.

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Data streamlining

1. Uses patented, scalable, data referencing technology to reduce the bandwidth used to transmit data by up to 99%
2. Provides industry-leading scalability and patented deduplication
3. Works with TCP-based protocols and applications, including file sharing (SMB), Web applications (HTTP and HTTPS), database software (Oracle), and collaboration tools (CAD, SharePoint, email)
4. Works with UDP-based file transfer applications, including Signiant, Aspera, and Symantec’s Veritas Volume Replicator

Transport streamlining

1. Reduces the number of TCP packets required to transfer data by 65-98% • Enables the acceleration of SSL-encrypted traffic to eliminate the security versus performance trade-offs
2. Improves end user experience and reduces traffic over direct Internet connections with a fully embedded, transparent HTTP(S) proxy
3. GD to verify accuracy Supports satellite optimization for TCP links (based on SCPS extensions) over satellite connections that tend to be high latency, dynamic bandwidth, or lossy due to signal-to-noise ratio

Application streamlining

1. Offers the broadest support for application-specific modules to provide performance improvements on top of the data and transport streamlining optimization performed on all TCP traffic
2. Reduces application protocol chattiness up to 98%
3. Minimizes application overhead to provide massive throughput increases to applications such as file sharing (SMB2/3, and NFS), collaboration software (SharePoint), email (Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes), cloud-based SaaS offerings (Office 365 and Salesforce), Web applications (HTTP and HTTPS), database (Oracle), and storage and disaster recovery (NetApp SnapMirror and EMC SRDF/A)

Manageability

1. Web-based portal hosted and maintained by Riverbed
2. The Riverbed Cloud Portal allows organizations to connect to their cloud provider and deploy a SteelHead CX cloud instance in just a few clicks
3. Simplifies deployment, management, licensing, and allows for instant upgrades

Flexibility

1. Allows for fast, reliable consumption of application workloads residing in Azure and AWS clouds with any required endpoint location: data center, branch, alternate cloud, and mobile client