Transcript SharePoint Momentum

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SharePoint Momentum
17K+ Customers, 100M Licenses
Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrants,
Forrester WaveTM
Continued Platform and Application
Innovation
4,000+ Partners Today across Collaboration,
Content Management and Search
“SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft’s history...
And this is just the beginning: SharePoint continues to grow as
customers are just beginning to apply it to a wide array of business
issues and processes.”
- AMR RESEARCH, APRIL 22, 2008
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Engage people across your value chain using one platform
Customers Employees
Internet
Intranet
Partners
Extranet
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Unified and Optimized Access to the Data Center
BIG-IP Edge Gateway
Internet
www.abc.com
DMZ
Datacenter
Resouces
Intranet
//abc
Extranet
Extranet.abc.com
Utilize existing user directories
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One solution to manage all access policies regardless of access
network
Capacity and performance to secure all user traffic
Optimizes application delivery to remote and mobile users
Improves quality of real-time applications; soft phones and
streaming media
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Application health and availability
• Traffic management starts with accurate health
• Multi-port/protocol monitoring
User 
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HTTP Bad
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Transport layer reports health, but
users cannot access SharePoint
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Transport 
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TCP Good
• Real-time connection tables
• Intelligent load-balancing method
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Configuring persistence profiles in BIG-IP
LocalTrafficProfilesPersistenceCreate
Cookie
Source IP and SSL ID
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Site level health
• BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
– Starts with good server level health within 1 site
– Includes external link health
– Disaster Recovery and Active/Active
Users
 Global Traffic Manager 
Site A
Site B
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Considerations for application access
BIG-IP EG (Edge Gateway)
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Next generation remote access solution
Converged security and acceleration services
platform
Optimize access for mobile users and remote
offices
New BIG-IP Solution for the Network Edge
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Includes new BIG-IP Edge Client solution
Up to 8 Gbps, 600 log-ins per second, 40,000 users
Mobile devices, notebooks, PCs supported
Redirect for mobile users (SharePoint Mobile View)
Edge Portal
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New BIG-IP Edge Client
• Flexible deployment:
– Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad
• Security
– End-point security
– Protected workspace
• Mobility
– Smart Connection roaming
– Uninterrupted application
sessions
• Acceleration
– Dynamic compression
– Client-side cache
– Client-side QoS
• FREE
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Unified Access to SharePoint
Twice as Fast User Downloads
• Competitor SSL VPN
• BIG-IP Edge Gateway
First Time
Repeat
= 211s
= 114s
= 47s
= 16s
Test includes a user logging onto VPN, navigating
through SharePoint content, and downloading a 4 MB document
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Considerations for application layer security
BIG-IP ASM (Application Security Module)
• Security or performance?
Fastest layer 7 (application layer)
security product
• Compliance regulations
PCI DSS, SOX, Basel II, HIPAA
compliance
• New malicious behavior
Built-in security policy for
SharePoint
• Beyond HTTP protection
ICSA Web Application Firewall
Certification
SC Magazine's 2010 Reader Trust Award for Best Web Application Security solution