bt global services & riverbed: command performance
DESCRIPTION
In today’s world of network interconnects, internet exchanges and cloud services it’s vital to the health of businesses to get the performance necessary to drive innovation and growth. BT Global Services and Riverbed are partners who understand that you command that performance. Attend this session to learn why it’s critical to your business to understand your traffic, identify hotspots, accelerate performance and strategically solve systemic application and networking issues in today’s complex environments. Join us and build a strong technology roadmap to drive your business.TRANSCRIPT
Presenter: Scott Cain, BT Global Services
Connect Applications
BT and Riverbed: Command Performance
IT and business changes putting demand on the network
Which of the following are likely to be your toptechnology priorities over the next 12 months?
Source: Forrester Research Inc.
... the answer isn’t always more bandwidth
Consolidation 75%
Disaster recovery 65%
Mobility 60%
Rich media / video 50%
Cloud 42%
Performance management 40%
Offshoring 38%
It is all about USER
EXPERIENCE!
Network Management Lifecycle
3. Control • Application optimisation• Protect critical applications• Smart path: Internet breakout
1. • Application landscape• Specific application performance • Web performance • Via a simple Dashboard
Understand
2. Accelerate• Faster users x200 • Faster applications • Reduced bandwidth 60%+• ROI within 7months
Connect Acceleration
Key points
• 100+ company implementations of acceleration• 4,000 managed endpoints in 90 countries • 1,000 BT experts• Only service provider that has an independent test and development facility to compare,
contrast and decide on the right optimisation solution • First and only service provider to test and prototype Wan optimisation virtual appliances for
use with virtual data centre and cloud solutions • First service provider to test and demo video streaming with WAN acceleration – as a software
only solution running on a virtualised platform• First and only to create an optimisation database showing results industry to help customer
benchmarking• First service provider launch fully managed Riverbed based service
Accelerate• Faster users x200 • Faster applications • Reduced bandwidth 60%+• ROI within 7months
BT Connect Acceleration is based on Riverbed
BT Connect Acceleration –based on Riverbed Steelhead
• Accelerate applications by up to 100x
• Cut bandwidth utilization by 65-95%
• Enable consolidation, cloud, and more effective DR
• Also impacts virtualisation, application rollouts, and mobility
Faster Sharepoint
20x faster response times
Transactions reduced from 60 sec to 3 secs
63% reduction in bandwidth
Accelerate: Acceleration of application performance
Server Consolidation
Support data centre consolidation
76% reduction in bandwidth
6-month payback
Customer service
Improve performance and address customer service issues
Saved €000’s in costs and potential loss business
Reduce bandwidth
Increased transactions by 20 seconds and reduce bandwidth by 65%
7
Application Streamlining Review
• Application Streamlining aims to overcome application protocol limitations
Typical application inefficiency
Open
FID
Read 1
Read 2
WAN
Data Center Branch Office
WAN
Network Management Lifecycle
3. Control • Application optimisation• Protect critical applications• Smart path: Internet breakout
1. • Application landscape• Specific application performance • Web performance • Via a simple Dashboard
Understand
2. Accelerate• Faster users x200 • Faster applications • Reduced bandwidth 60%+• ROI within 7months
9
WAN
Request
• Transaction times x100 faster
• ROI within 7 months
• 40-60% reduction
Data Center Branch Office
Data reductionA
Comprehensive Riverbed product deployment
WANDATA
CENTER
BRANCH OFFICES
MOBILE WORKERS
Steelhead Appliances(Clustered)
SECONDARY DATA CENTER
Steelhead Mobile
Steelhead Appliance &Riverbed Services Platform
Steelhead Appliance
Steelhead Mobile Controller
Interceptor
VM VMDK
Management and support
CMC
BT and Riverbed partnership
BT Connect Applications portfolio provides unrivaled global experience • More customers: 600 company implementations
• More managed customers in more countries: 6,000 managedendpoints in 90 countries
BT and Riverbed growth• BT awarded by Riverbed fastest growing service provider and
largest service provider in Europe
Richer managed service wrap
• Design consultancy, project managed installation, global coverage, 24*7 Helpdesk, Proactive Fault Management and incident investigation,Service Management and Reporting Service, Dedicated Analyst, monthly consultancy and recommendations, Online Dashboard reporting
• 1,000 BT staff trained – 40 RSCP accredited
First to innovate • Only service provider that has an independent test and development facility
to enable customers to compare, contrast and decide on the right optimisation solution
• First and only service provider to test and prototype Acceleration virtual appliances for use with virtual data centre and cloud solutions
• First service provider to test and demo video streaming with WAN acceleration – as a software only solution running on a virtualised platform
• First and only to create an optimisation database showing results by industry to help customer benchmarking
BT won Best IT Service Global Telecoms Business Awards 2010
Top Tier
Won best Corporate innovation for Connect Acceleration, IET Awards 2010
12
Before: 70 GB
After: 615MB !
Total reduction in Infrastructure traffic =
90%
Results
Use less Resources
Faster backup of critical data
Eating your own dog food...
BT Connect Acceleration benchmark database
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Reduction %
Government Retail Pharma Finance Finance 2 Pharma Retail ManufacturingYour
company
Month 1 Month 2
Range of improvement by application
*a selection of 21 commonapps from total of 95 measured
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20
40
60
80
100
120
(blackjack)
(CIF
S:N
etBIO
S)
(CIF
S:T
CP
)
(Citrix_C
lient)
(citriximaclient)
(FT
P)
(HT
TP
)
(HT
TP
_Web)
(ica)
(imap)
(kerberos)
(ldap)
(Lotus Notes)
(Mail E
xchange)
(MA
PI)
(Oracle)
(Proxy T
raffic)
(SQ
L:TD
S)
(Squid_C
ache)
(webcache)
(Window
s Update S
erver WS
US
)% reduction by application Sept-Dec 2010*
average of reduction % max of reduction %
Summary
BT Connect Applications unrivalled track record and credentials
BT Connect Acceleration– one stop shop
Ideal combination of technology and service
Strong security credentials compliant to BTSECS
Maximise investment inWAN (ROI in 7months, IDC)
It is all about USER
EXPERIENCE!
Vendors here havebetter capabilityto govern WAN Performance e.g.Application Level QoS
Vendors here havehigh performing
Network transport acceleration
Vendors here havesupport for awide range of
applicationAcceleration
features
Vendors here havea wide range of
Virtualisation andDeployment options
e.g. mobile client, virtual appliance,
router module
Ipanema
Riverbed
Cisco
Bluecoat SG
BluecoatPacketshaper
Juniper
BT Acceleration vendor assessments
ApplicationAcceleration
WAN Governance Transport Acceleration
Product Range / Deployment Modes /Ease of deployment
Vendors here havebetter capabilityto govern WAN Performance e.g.Application Level QoS
Vendors here havehigh performing
Network transport acceleration
Vendors here havesupport for awide range of
applicationAcceleration
features
Vendors here havea wide range of
Virtualisation andDeployment options
e.g. mobile client, virtual appliance,
router module
Vendors here havehigh performing
Network transport acceleration
Riverbed
Best in ClassRiverbed
Best in ClassRiverbed
ApplicationAcceleration
WAN Governance Transport Acceleration
Product Range / Deployment Modes /Ease of deployment
Ipanema
Riverbed
Cisco
Bluecoat SG
BluecoatPacketshaper
Juniper
Vendors here havebetter capabilityto govern WAN Performance e.g.Application Level QoS
Vendors here havehigh performing
Network transport acceleration
Vendors here havesupport for awide range of
applicationAcceleration
features
Vendors here havea wide range of
Virtualisation andDeployment options
e.g. mobile client, virtual appliance,
router module
Ipanema
ApplicationAcceleration
WAN Governance Transport Acceleration
Product Range / Deployment Modes /Ease of deployment
Ipanema
Riverbed
Cisco
Bluecoat SG
BluecoatPacketshaper
Juniper
Best in ClassIpanema
Vendors here havebetter capabilityto govern WAN Performance e.g.Application Level QoS
Vendors here havehigh performing
Network transport acceleration
Vendors here havesupport for awide range of
applicationAcceleration
features
Vendors here havea wide range of
Virtualisation andDeployment options
e.g. mobile client, virtual appliance,
router module
Vendors here havehigh performing
Network transport acceleration
Complementary portfolio
ApplicationAcceleration
WAN Governance Transport Acceleration
Product Range / Deployment Modes /Ease of deployment
Ipanema
Riverbed
Cisco
Bluecoat SG
BluecoatPacketshaper
Juniper
Best in ClassRiverbed
Best in ClassRiverbed
Best in ClassIpanema