Major electronics distributor optimizes global ERP access
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 01/31/2011 09:20:40
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Electronics distributor Classic Components is projecting savings of more than 30% in IT costs annually by using Silver Peak's data center class WAN optimization. The company is optimizing global access to its ERP system between offices in Brazil, China, and the US.
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HP pulls data center class WAN optimization into HP AllianceONE
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 01/26/2011 08:59:30
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We’re pleased to now be a member of the HP AllianceOne Technology Program and be part of the Networking Specialty Area. It is great to see HP recognize Silver Peak as a complementary partner to their portfolio, in particular, their networking and storage solutions.
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Finalist for Storage Networking Product of the Year
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 01/14/2011 13:42:58
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Another great milestone...out of more than 200 product submissions, we have been selected Silver as a “Finalist” for the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year awards. Silver Peak and the VX-5000 were distinguished by their innovation, value, and capabilities.
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Asia Pacific expansion continues in Singapore
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- On: 01/13/2011 15:48:21
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Gartner WAN op magic quadrant has Silver Peak as Visionary
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 01/04/2011 08:46:15
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Silver Peak has been positioned in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Gartner 2010 “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers," closing out a banner year for the company that included being named to the Wall Street Journal's list of top 50 venture backed companies!
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Is WAN optimization ready for the virtual data center?
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 11/16/2010 11:20:01
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Survey says - Data Center WAN Optimization is taking center stage
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 10/12/2010 09:09:41
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Silver Peak just finished conducting a survey of over 1,000 medium and large enterprises. We asked several questions pertaining to data center initiatives, like Disaster Recovery and VDI. Some interesting stats are below. For a more detailed report, contact jaaron@silver-peak.com
- 59% of enterprises are doing disaster recovery across the WAN; 18% more are planning to do DR over WAN in the short term. This reinforces the need for a data center WANop solution, like Silver Peak
- 36% of respondents are doing replication over a shared WAN – this move to convergence creates a variety of unique network issues…
- 48.1% of respondents are doing replication over 100 miles (27% over 500 miles). This reinforces the fact that distance is equally as important as bandwidth when it comes to offsite data protection
- Over 25% of respondents are also putting voice, VDI and other real-time traffic over the same WAN as disaster recovery, Over 50% of enterprises deploy file, email, and web over the same shared WAN
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VDI over WAN: It's all about latency
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 10/06/2010 11:30:31
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The Next Inevitable Wave of Convergence
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 10/01/2010 16:21:50
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In the late 1990's something significant happened that forever altered the way we do networking - the Internet Protocol (IP) became the de facto standard for communications. With this convergence came an entire industry of routers and switches, which enabled large, reliable networks (such as the Internet) to be built for anytime, anywhere communications.
It didn't take long after the world standardized on IP for a second wave of convergence to take place. People realized that it can be expensive to maintain separate networks for voice and data traffic, so they began to merge the two (using Voice over IP). Shortly thereafter, IP based videoconferencing and video streaming emerged as well, giving real substance to the whole "unified communications" movement.
Today we are experiencing a third inevitable wave of networking convergence, which is having a very profound impact on businesses throughout the world. It is becoming increasingly difficult to justify a separate IP network for storage traffic as a way of ensuring the performance and reliability of offsite disaster recovery operations. It is simply too expensive - and no longer needed given advances in WAN optimization. As a result, remote backup and data replication traffic is increasingly deployed alongside one another, and in conjunction with file, email, web, VDI, voice, video, and a plethora of other applications that are critical to business operations.
This is a huge transformation within many companies as it affects the most strategic enterprise applications. In addition, it has an enormous impact on costs by enabling enterprises to save over 50% in ongoing IT expenditures. Lastly, this third wave of convergence can break down silos between storage and networking organizations, which is often appealing to CIOs.
Interested in learning more? Here is a great Forrester Research Report entitled, "Evaluating the Performance of Shared WANs for Data Center Backup and Disaster Recovery".
Is mobile WAN optimization worth the cost?
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 09/01/2010 12:54:20
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