RIVERBED INTRODUCES

NEW PLATFORM FOR

ADC-AS-A-SERVICE

New Stingray Services Controller

Delivers Hyper-Elastic ADC Platform

EXTREME ELASTICITY

INSTANTLY ADAPTIVE

HIGH DENSITY MULTI-TENANCY

Market Launch: May 7th; GA in Q3 2013

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Stingray Services Controller

3

Management / control to enable ADCaaS

Elastic ADC with Stingray “micro” instance

Best of Show Finalist at Interop Las Vegas May 2013

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Data Centers are Becoming More Cloud-Aware

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Legacy Modern

Distributed

Static

Physical

Inefficient

Manual Processes

Inflexible

Time consuming

Silos of Technology

Centralized

Dynamic

Virtual

Efficient

Automated

Flexible

Rapid response

Pools of resources

New Architectures are Required© 2013 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.

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Your applications have virtualized, can you say the same thing for yourinfrastructure?

In the next gen data center, ADCs need to be:

Services Supporting AppsNeed to Change

Right-sized, per-app & per-tenant

Dynamically scalable

Offering services on a per app basis

Virtualized and cloud-ready

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Why: Today’s ADC Architectures are Still a Bottleneck

Cloud-Aware Data Centers

Application Data Flows are Changing

DC Operational Change Timeframes

are Decreasing

ADCBottlenecks

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A New

Architecture

is Required!

What is

ADC-as-a-Service (ADCaaS)?

AN ELASTIC ADC PRODUCT

A CONTROLLER TO PROVISION AND MANAGE ADC SERVICES

POLICY ENABLED SERVICE AUTOMATION FOR APPLICATION DELIVERY

INTEROPERABILITY WITH SDN AND CLOUD ORCHESTRATED TOOLS

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Stingray Services Controller – Key Features

“Micro” ADCsScaling, multi-tenancy, isolation, elasticity, no VM overhead

LicensingFlexible on-demand provisioning of ADC instances

Metering Billing / chargeback, monitoring and reporting

InventoryInstance management (active / inactive)

Deployment Service Implementation roll-out

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Transition to Riverbed Stingray ADCaaS

Riverbed Stingray ADCaaS is the next wave of application delivery solution, designed for any network and application.

• Not natively designed for virtualization and the cloud• Rely on a typical hierarchical data center architecture• Not designed for advanced L7 services

Riverbed Stingray: ADCaaS• Stingray is designed as 64-bit software

• Cloud heritage - many cloud providers deploying Stingray today

• Designed for layer 7 services

• Dynamic provisioning and scaling of ADC resources

• Robust APIs - programmability/easy integration with 3 rd party cloud orchestration and mgmt tools

Traditional ADCs

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