1 Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Optimization for SaaS Applications in the hybrid cloud Joe Ghory Sr. Product Marketing Manager; Riverbed Mike Cucchi - Director, Product Marketing; Akamai
The Cloud is Primarily SaaS 2 The Cloud Is Full of SaaS! Source Forrester Research Inc.
What Makes the Public Cloud Attractive 3 ELASTIC CAPACITY OPEX VS CAPEX FASTER TIME TO MARKET COST EFFECTIVE UPTIME RELIABILITY SOMEONE ELSES PROBLEM
Clouds Come in Many Flavors 4
Largest SaaS Players 5
6 So What is the Problem?
SaaS Creates New Problems 7 WAN BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS DATA CENTERS / CLOUD
Why 8
Distance Gap Between Data Centers and Users 9 SaaS DATA CENTER Los Angeles SaaS DATA CENTER Herndon SaaS DATA CENTER London SaaS DATA CENTER Tokyo SaaS DATA CENTER Sydney
Distance Gap Between Data Centers and Users 10 SaaS DATA CENTER Los Angeles SaaS DATA CENTER Herndon SaaS DATA CENTER London SaaS DATA CENTER Tokyo SaaS DATA CENTER Sydney
Distance Gap Made Worse by Backhaul WAN Topology 11 Internet SaaS DATA CENTER Boston CORPORATE DATA CENTER Los Angeles Back Haul 80% of Enterprises Back Haul Internet inefficiencies impact performance and availability Optimization cannot extend to SaaS data center BRANCH OFFICE Miami
SaaS Application Performance Problems 12 Potential performance consequences of SaaS migration Accessing a 10 MB PPT Document on Office 365 Application Access 60x SLOWER 120 sec 2 sec 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Cloud Access Local Access
Riverbed + Akamai Combining Fast with Fast 13 Footprint Unique Technology Expertise Footprint Unique Technology Expertise
Optimization Everywhere Steelhead Cloud Accelerator 14 WAN BRANCHES / MOBILE WORKER / CUSTOMERS DATA CENTERS / CLOUD
15 Key Features Fast End User Performance / Productivity High Availability and Bandwidth Optimization Easy Light Touch Deployment & Management
Results 16
Customer Results 17 World s largest ball bearing manufacturer 46,000 Employees SaaS App: Microsoft Office 365 Users in China, Singapore, India, and Sweden All users access Office 365 DC in Dublin (IRL) Up to 52x Faster
18 Customer Results Global Energy Company Annual turnover 20 Billion (EUR) SaaS App: Salesforce Users in Europe and United States Salesforce Data Center in Virginia (USA) Up to 24x Faster
Summary 19 SaaS is the heart of Cloud and growing fast In global deployments, performance is a problem Industry Leaders in WAN and Internet performance combine fast with fast Result: Industry 1 st - Global SaaS with Local Performance Unleash Cloud Performance
Thank You 20