Location-independent SharePoint

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© RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY 1 The case for location- independent SharePoint
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User adoption. Geo-replication. Slow performance. Custom-code troubleshooting. Office 365 migration. These are some of the challenges you face with your SharePoint environment, but did you know that they all have something in common? Application performance infrastructure is essential to delivering the best SharePoint user experience, regardless of where and how SharePoint is deployed.

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The case for location-independent

SharePoint

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“We wanted to streamline that process for our employees so they could focus less on tracking down documents and more on their actual work. At the same time, we wanted to create a better experience for the clients.”

Customer service and employee productivity require SharePoint performance

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“The planned transformation was enormous and included infrastructure upgrades, data center consolidation, adoption of new applications, and site expansion – all at the same time.”

Adopting Office 365 is transformational

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“Users in Johannesburg, South Africa, had to wait almost a minute for a certain SharePoint page to load.

SharePoint performance issues slow user adoption and ROI

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“If we could save our researchers just 10 or 15 minutes per day through faster application performance, this type of solution would pay for itself in months.”

SharePoint performance issues can delay time-to-market

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• TCP windowing• Bandwidth congestionSF to NY = 70msResult: Uploads / downloads up to 30x slowerLatency

• Multiple stylesheets, multiple javascripts• More images, bigger images

• Cost and complexity• Global search architecture

• Troubleshooting in production• QA in development

150 elements per page is not uncommonResult: SharePoint site access up to 4x slowerComplex Sites

Extra hardware, complex administrationResult: $90K for additional farmGeo-replication

Inherited code, developer turnoverResult: hours reviewing log files to fixCustom Code

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Location-independent computing

Turns distance and location into a competitive advantage by allowing IT to have the flexibility to host apps and data in optimal locations while ensuring flawless delivery and best user experiences

• higher people productivity

• better leverage of global skills/resources

• radically reduced TCO

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Combines user experience,

application, and network

visibility to detect

SharePoint issues before

end users notice

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Riverbed Performance Management™

• SharePoint performs as expected

• Data is always available when needed

• Performance issues are detected and fixed before end users even notice

OPEN APIs

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™

Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform

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The #1 WAN optimization

for up to 30x faster

SharePoint and Office 365,

with 90% less traffic over

hybrid networks

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Steelhead

• SharePoint performs as expected

• Data is always available when needed

• Performance issues are detected and fixed before end users even notice

OPEN APIs

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™

Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform

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The only branch converged

infrastructure that delivers

local performance while

enabling data centralization,

instant recovery, and lower

TCO.

Granite

• SharePoint performs as expected

• Data is always available when needed

• Performance issues are detected and fixed before end users even notice

OPEN APIs

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™

Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform

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The #1 virtual application

delivery controller (ADC)

for scalable, secure, and

elastic delivery of

SharePoint

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Stingray

• SharePoint performs as expected

• Data is always available when needed

• Performance issues are detected and fixed before end users even notice

OPEN APIs

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Riverbed® Application Performance Platform™

Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform

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Primary Data Center

Steelhead

CascadeProfiler

AppInternals

AppResponse

Stingray App Delivery (w/Aptimizer)

Mobile Workers

Branch Offices

Steelhead Mobile Stingray Traffic Manager

Cloud Steelhead

Public Clouds

External Users

Steelhead

Skipware

Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

BrowserMetrix

WAN or Internet

CustomIT Portal

SharePoint

Steelhead Cloud Accelerator

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“[Clients] get a consistent experience whenever they visit the portal […] With Riverbed, we have a solid, robust platform that we don’t have to babysit.” – IT manager, professional services consulting firm

Customer service

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“It was just amazing how much better Office 365 was with Steelhead: 300% performance improvement in some cases, sub-second response times now for anything – you wouldn’t know it was in Singapore.” – Branko Ceran, CIO, MTC Australia

Adopting Office 365

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“Although the primary benefit of Aptimizer is performance improvement, another is that it has improved the adoption of the intranet in those areas where performance originally lagged.”– Greg Stimson, financial and program manager, Golder Associates

User adoption

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“By accelerating previously slow and frustrating tasks like accessing data at other research centers, we are actually accelerating our product development cycle.”– Bernd Schwenk, Vice President of Information Management, ADVA

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