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Solution Brief

Application-Ready Branches with BlueCat™ & Riverbed To support today’s rapid business and technological transformation, an enterprise’s infrastructure must be designed and architected for change. Increasingly controlled by applications, the network must be highly adaptable to meet real-time business demands. The integration of BlueCat DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) software with Riverbed solutions provides enterprises unprecedented standardization of and control over their network and security as well as the flexibility to deliver core network services on-demand, locally or centrally, to ensure an exceptional user experience.

Business gets done at the Branch According to research firm IDC, the average business runs 55 branch or remote offices for every datacenter which means the branch is where a majority of business gets done. Additionally, as businesses increase their reliance on an increasing number of applications, branches are getting smarter, more flexible, and becoming a platform of engagement by enabling new ways for you to connect staff with customers, employees with applications, and data with decision makers.

Given the increasing importance of applications in the branch, these remote locations have become mission-critical to the business and application access and user experience consistency are table-stakes – wherever your users and applications are, whatever they need to perform their duties. The challenge for many IT organizations, however, is how to enable these remote applications without adding costly infrastructure, IT resources, and overhead within the braches themselves.

Branch Transformation with SteelFusion Riverbed® SteelFusion™ is the first and only hyperconverged infrastructure that delivers local performance while enabling data centralization, instant recovery, and lower TCO. SteelFusion converges server, storage, and network infrastructure into a single branch appliance minimizing the footprint needed to run branch applications while centralizing data. SteelFusion eliminates the headache of remote office/branch office (ROBO) IT by consolidating storage to the datacenter

DDI Solutions from BlueCat BlueCat IP Address Management, DNS and DHCP solutions (DDI) provide the foundation for flexible, open and adaptive networks that are designed and architected for change. BlueCat unifies traditional data center and cloud compute to meet the demands of today’s

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increasingly heterogeneous infrastructures, offering the flexibility to automatically scale and rapidly deliver core network services – without compromise.

Together, Riverbed SteelFusion and BlueCat DDI solutions enable to IT organizations to centralize applications and data while making these resources

instantly available to all branch and remote offices. IT organizations can now standardize on a single operating environment and extend data center best practices to remote locations without requiring costly and complex infrastructure or IT personnel in these locations.

Unprecedented business agility with Riverbed and BlueCat The integrated Riverbed SteelFusion / BlueCat DDI solution delivers an autonomous, centrally managed hyper-converged branch that allows you to effortlessly and reliably onboard users and automatically accommodates changes to your business applications, without the need to distribute dedicated IT resources across your locations.

BlueCat’s software approach to DDI empowers you and your organization with

• Local DHCP services that provide you with the confidence that devices and applications can consistently and reliably connect to your network

• Local DNS services that allow you to control application access and user experience

• Open, API driven central IP Address Management platform that ensures efficient and secure operations fully integrated into your business processes, audited changes and seamless adaptability without the need for distributed IT skills

As branches expand and compress to accommodate the needs of your business and other external factors, your IT team can seamlessly deploy local DNS/DHCP services managed centrally and update configurations to accommodate operational changes using BlueCat’s IP Address Management software.

Local DNS / DHCP + WAN & Remote Office Acceleration + VDI Access + Remote Office

Servers [Option]

Redundant local DNS / DHCP + WAN & Remote Office

Acceleration + VDI Access + Remote Office Servers [Option]

VirtualizedStorage

Other BusinessApplications

VirtualizedCompute

DNS / DHCPSoftware

DNS / DHCPSoftware

DNS / DHCPSoftware

DNS / DHCPSoftware

Centralized IP Address Management

Data CenterRemote Branches(High Availability)

Remote Branches

DNS / DHCPSoftware

DNS / DHCPSoftware

EdgeCore

Edge

DNS / DHCPSoftware

Edge

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Key Benefits • Increases the operational capability, efficiency

and flexibility of your business, allowing you to quickly deliver, control, and optimize ROBO IT without the need for local specialized skills.

• Aligns your branch strategy to your cloud strategy while optimizing user experience and ensuring consistent user productivity and performance.

• Delivers datacenter-class reliability, business continuity, and data security.

• Provides proactive visibility and insight, enabling you to quickly detect and fix problems before

they impact performance.

• Integrates IP Address Management, global and local DNS/DHCP service delivery with your business processes – everywhere, at any time.

The integrated Riverbed SteelFusion/BlueCat DDI solution empowers your organization to transform your branches into platforms of engagement for your staff and customers while controlling costs through central management, automation, and the ability to deploy software wherever and whenever your business requires it.

About BlueCat BlueCat delivers software-based DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) solutions enabling our customers to successfully and efficiently manage their business transformations.

Cloud, virtualization, the Internet of Things and software-defined networking require organizations to build and manage a complex network infrastructure designed to meet the rapid pace of change in their business. Challenged by complexity, scale and flexibility, the largest and most successful global enterprises turn to BlueCat’s software-based DDI solutions. We offer peace of mind that their mission-critical infrastructure is scalable, stable, secure and always available to their business.

With offices around the globe, leading enterprises trust BlueCat. Learn more at bluecatnetworks.com

About Riverbed Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in application performance infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility. Riverbed’s 26,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at http://www.riverbed.com/products/steelfusion.html

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