Riverbed Ensures Peak Performance for the Hybrid Enterprise at Microsoft Ignite 2015

San Francisco—May 04, 2015— Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, will demonstrate the Riverbed Application Performance Platform™, a set of integrated solutions for end-to-end application visibility, optimization, and control in hybrid IT environments, at Microsoft Ignite. Riverbed solutions optimize Microsoft Office 365 and SaaS delivery, and assure Microsoft SharePoint and Azure performance.

When/Where:

Microsoft Ignite
McCormick Place, Chicago
May 4-8, 2015
Booth #261

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What:

With more than three-quarters of organizations having hybrid architectures today, the hybrid enterprise is here to stay. For IT professionals leading Office 365, SharePoint or Azure initiatives, Riverbed provides the visibility, optimization, and control needed to ensure superior application performance. Through their ongoing strategic relationship, Riverbed and Microsoft together enable enterprises to move to cloud and virtualized Microsoft environments without compromising application performance and, in turn, business performance. This results in better end-user productivity and lower infrastructure costs.

DEMONSTRATIONS AND BOOTH PRESENTATIONS (Booth #261)

• Optimize Office 365 and SaaS Delivery: Riverbed® SteelHead™ optimization has been extended to Office 365. As the #1 WAN optimization solution for 8 years, Riverbed's capabilities and benefits span across both the private WAN and the Internet. Riverbed® SteelHead™ SaaS offers secure optimization of SaaS applications for a global workforce - accommodating user, client and application mobility:
  • Delivers as much as 33x better application performance for Office 365
  • Reduces bandwidth use by as much as 97%, eliminating the need to add costly network bandwidth
  • Accelerates the deployment of Office 365 applications
  • Combined MPLS and Internet optimization maximizes the use of all available networks
  • Uniquely ensures optimization for Office 365 mailboxes to users at any location or distance from the cloud for real productivity improvement
  • Assure SharePoint Performance: Improve performance and reduce bandwidth of mission critical SharePoint applications hosted on-premises or in Azure. Riverbed's solution for SharePoint application visibility and optimization helps deliver high-performing SharePoint-enabled applications and business impact, including:
    • Get complete visibility across users, network, apps and infrastructure
    • Diagnose root causes and arm teams with insights to fix issues quickly
    • Accelerate links between offices, partners and customers, out-of-the-box
    • Deploy deep application-level optimization for Microsoft SharePoint
    • Quickly prioritize and protect SharePoint performance with advanced QoS capabilities
• Release high-quality app updates faster with collaboration across development teams
  • Secure SharePoint deployment and interconnected applications
  • Develop and Deliver Applications for Azure: Riverbed SteelHead has been certified for Microsoft Azure, and Riverbed® SteelCentral™ monitors user experience and the end-to-end path of every transaction to expose and diagnose bottlenecks in seconds. These insights help to resolve problems, to measure their impact and to continuously improve performance:
    • Monitor user experience, applications and infrastructure
    • Expose, diagnose and fix code, SQL, remote call or system problems
    • Discover bugs with analytics and fix them before they cause incidents
    • Identify key transactions and quantify business impact of performance
    • Speed the migration to Microsoft Azure and accelerate access for users from virtually any location
    • Quickly prioritize and protect application performance with advanced QoS capabilities

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Improving Office 365 Network and Application Performance
  • When: Tuesday, May 5th, 12:35pm
  • Where: Lounge E        
  • Speaker: Brett Hill, Office 365 MVP
  • Abstract: When you adopt cloud services you must integrate cloud networking as part of your architecture. Users are accustomed to LAN speed for services, but cloud servers can be distant from the users, and traffic is carried over potentially unreliable or saturated links. This session will show how you can deploy Office 365 and significantly improve performance for common workloads while reducing bandwidth.

• Microsoft Azure Team Breakout Session: Understanding Network Virtual Appliances
  • When: Wednesday, May 6th, 9:00am
  • Where: S502
  • Speaker:  Brett Hill, Office 365 MVP
• Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel
  • When:  Thursday, May 7th, 5:00pm
  • Where: E350
  • Speaker:  Brett Hill, Office 365 MVP
  • Abstract: Learn from the Office 365 experts. This session brings together a few Office 365 MVP experts to share and discuss the hot topics they have seen while working with customers. Bring your questions and expect to interact in this session.