Silver Peak Blog

Major electronics distributor optimizes global ERP access

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:20:40 0000

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.

HP pulls data center class WAN optimization into HP AllianceONE

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:59:30 0000

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.

Finalist for Storage Networking Product of the Year

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:42:58 0000

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.

Asia Pacific expansion continues in Singapore

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:48:21 0000

Silver Peak 's business is continuing to grow rapidly around the world. We have continued our international expansion across Europe, Latin America, and now in Asia Pacific, with have added a new regional headquarters in Singapore that will help support the growing demand for Silver Peak's data center class WAN optimization in the region.

Gartner WAN op magic quadrant has Silver Peak as Visionary

Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:46:15 0000

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!

Is WAN optimization ready for the virtual data center?

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:20:01 0000

It is now! Silver Peak introduces the first true data center class virtual WAN optimization appliance - the VRX. While alternative virtual WAN optimization solutions only scale to 45 Mbps, this device supports a full Gbps of end-to-end throughput - a 20x increase! This paves the way for cost effective replication, data migration, cloud storage and other key data center-to-data center initiatives. To learn more, visit the VRX landing page

Survey says - Data Center WAN Optimization is taking center stage

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:09:41 0000

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

VDI over WAN: It's all about latency

Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:30:31 0000

SearchEnterpriseWAN has a great article today on what it takes to do VDI over the WAN. In it they include some nice data from a survey that Silver Peak conducted with Xiotech at VMworld. http://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/news/2240022913/VDI-over-the-WAN-How-latency-affects-on-virtual-desktop-performance

The Next Inevitable Wave of Convergence

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:21:50 0000

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?

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:54:20 0000

There is a great article in searchstorage addressing concerns with mobile WANop clients. More and more enterprises are realizing the implementation barriers dont outweigh the benefits.

http://searchenterprisewan.techtarget.com/news/2240022330/Mobile-WAN-optimization-Adoption-still-slow-some-barriers-lifted?