PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed SteelApp RIVERBED APPLICATION DELIVERY THE FIRST APPLICATION DELIVERY CONTROLLER (ADC) DESIGNED FOR ANY CLOUD OR • Greater flexibility VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT • Layer 7 intelligence • Improved user experience • Cloud readiness GARTNER MAGIC • Developer support QUADRANT RECOGNITION We’re a “Visionary” in the 2012 Magic Quadrant for application performance controllers. PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed SteelApp RIVERBED STEELAPP BETTER FOR DEVELOPMENT, BETTER FOR DEPLOYMENT, AND BETTER FOR DELIVERY Application delivery controllers (ADCs) are an important part of virtualization and cloud portability. As a pure software solution the modern application platform. They provide key functionality intended for the widest variety of deployments, the SteelApp to support applications and valuable tools to support family enables a more flexible application delivery strategy and operations. Their monitoring and debugging capabilities also provides a common delivery and control platform that can help deliver reliable applications with predictable performance. grow with your business. Software-based ADCs that are located close to – or even SteelApp software is designed to load balance traffic globally directly on – servers provide the best application awareness. among servers, manage bandwidth, shape traffic, and monitor service levels. Designed with this in mind, Riverbed® SteelApp™ is a virtual and software-based Layer 7 ADC with integrated web content As compared to traditional hardware load balancers, it delivers optimization (WCO) capability designed to deliver application a faster user experience with more reliable access to public services in the face of these challenges. websites and enterprise applications, regardless if they run in a public or private cloud, or a virtualized environment. SteelApp is a new breed of ADC that is natively designed for THE SOFTWARE ADC ADVANTAGE Traditional load balancers and application delivery controllers (ADCs) simply hand off connections among a few servers to improve uptime. Cloud-ready, software ADCs provide the required availability, scalability, security, and user experience expected for today’s website and business applications. Flexibility: Layer 7 Improved user Cloud-readiness: Developer support: Application owners look intelligence: experience: Traditional load balancers Imagine your developers at ADCs as a key control A Layer 7 ADC allows Software ADCs do more and legacy application running a software ADC point for a distributed for application level than boost data center delivery controllers in their own development application because they operations and efficiency: they go further can’t provide the type environments. At their see every single user optimizations. It can make to ensure that users of diversity, portability, fingertips, they’d have request and response. decisions based on the have a fast, reliable programmability and Layer 7 functionality, However, if the ADC isn’t application, the user, a experience. They tap into granular application- scale, offload, content dynamic and flexible like given page, a particular the application content level control readily optimization, and security the application itself, the kind of response, and and, through automated available with software components all built into app owner is essentially much more. It can even web content optimization ADCs. Software ADCs are one toolset. They’d be able developing with one hand change the behavior of the (WCO), deliver it fast designed to work across integrate and test apps tied behind his back. application if necessary. and consistently every any public or private cloud. while running the ADC With deep application level time. This allows ADCs has part of the application intelligence, ADCs can to give users a better stack. Your developers protect advanced threats experience by reacting to can easily use the ADC to security, including SQL browser platform, user when it’s best suited for injection attacks, cross-side requirements, and even the job. And best of all, scripting (XSS) attacks, and user location and other they can do it for free denial-of-service threats. characteristics. with SteelApp Developer Edition. 1 PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed SteelApp RIVERBED STEELAPP PRODUCT FAMILY SteelApp is designed to make applications faster, reliable, The SteelApp product family includes four tools to automate, and secure. It works within cloud environments and is easily optimize, secure, and accelerate the performance of online integrated into an application stack. It is the industry’s only applications: complete virtual or software-based Layer 7 application delivery 1. SteelApp Traffic Manager controller (ADC) with integrated web content optimization 2. SteelApp Web Accelerator (WCO) capability, freeing applications from the constraints of 3. SteelApp Web App Firewall traditional hardware-based load balancers. 4. SteelCentral Services Controller for SteelApp While traditional ADCs deliver scalability and reliability for enterprise and web applications within the data center, SteelApp software goes further to deliver high performance and availability and accelerating applications, including those based in virtual and cloud platforms. 1. SteelApp Traffic Manager STEELAPP TRAFFIC MANAGER WEB AND SteelApp Traffic Manager provides APPLICATION unprecedented scale and flexibility to PROCESSING PROCESSING SERVERS REQUEST REQUEST These are the servers that provide deliver applications across the widest - SSL Decryption - Load Balancing the service - Service Protection 3 ways to create - Session Persistence WEB SERVERS range of environments, from physical - TCP Offload REQUEST RULES - Bandwidth Shaping - Rate Shaping RuleBuilder - SSL Encryption APPLICATION and virtual data centers to public and - Application Firewall TrafficScript - HTTP Multiplexing SERVERS Java hybrid clouds. It can increase server - Web Content Optimization - Concurrency Control DATABASE - Application Auto-Scaling SERVERS efficiency by up to 3x and boost the throughput of application servers by VIRTUAL SERVER POOL SERVER Manages connection Manages connection up to 50%, while at the same time to remote client to back-end nodes reducing response times through PROCESSING dynamic caching, and both local RESPONSE and global load balancing. It reduces - TCP Offload - HTTP Caching 3 ways to create MONITORS Probe application servers to test the strain placed on application - Content Compression RESPONSE RULES - Service Level Monitoring RuleBuilder availability and optimal response infrastructure with network-level - Bandwidth Shaping TrafficScript - Transaction Logging Java buffering, protocol optimizations, and - Application Firewall - Web Content Optimization application-specific measures such as dynamic compression and caching. Figure 1: SteelApp Traffic Manager inspects and processes application traffic, with full payload inspection and streaming, and applies a range of optimization techniques to ensure that incoming requests are presented in the most appropriate manner to the web and application servers. Responses from the application can be compressed, cached, and returned to the client at optimum speed, while freeing up resources on the server. 2 PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed SteelApp STEELAPP TRAFFIC MANAGER DELIVERS: Improved reliability and scalability Application performance Health and performance monitors balance client requests across Offload compute-intensive tasks while integrating HTTP content the fastest servers. Seamless application scaling protects against caching for reduced load on your infrastructure. TCP offload, traffic compound failures at all levels. buffering, and concurrency control let applications run at peak performance. Increased security Integration and control Protect applications with server isolation, request and response Implement traffic management policies with SteelApp RuleBuilder™ scrubbing, request validation, and protective traffic shaping. Also and SteelApp TrafficScript™ language, or create Java™ extensions defend against direct attacks, invalid or malformed requests, and for complex business rules. Integrate SteelApp Traffic Manager within malicious or incidental flash floods. existing application management and orchestration infrastructure with REST APIs or Riverbed SteelScript™. 2. SteelApp Web Accelerator INSTALL WEB ACCELERATOR AS: SteelApp™ Web Accelerator software extends ADC scalability and reliability for enterprise and web applications to end users. It accelerates page load times up to 4x for public websites and applications, and improves the business results from a WEB ACCELERATOR huge range of web-based services including Microsoft SharePoint, public websites, intranet portals, and cloud applications. It dynamically groups activities for fewer long distance round trips, compresses images INSTANT RESULTS: to reduce bandwidth required, increases caching for faster repeat visits, and prioritizes actions to give the best possible response time for loading a web page on any browser. SteelApp Web Accelerator can be deployed as a standalone software proxy appliance, Figure 3: How SteelApp Web Accelerator works. as a licensed add-on to SteelApp Traffic Manager, or as a web-server extension on Microsoft SharePoint or IIS/ASP.NET. 3 PRODUCT FAMILY BROCHURE: Riverbed SteelApp 3. SteelApp Web App Firewall SteelApp™ Web App Firewall is scalable and application-aware, offering the highest ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS protection and performance in Web and Security policies