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
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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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