Silver Peak Blog

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?

Are your WAN management tools as accurate as you think they are?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:44:51 0000

Recently Apple discovered that customers using iPhones were getting inaccurate measurements of signal strength. AT&T was “stunned” by the news. At first I was amazed by this revelation. How can this type of inaccuracy go undetected for so long?

Upon further reflection, though, I realized that this type of thing isn’t all that unusual. In the world of WAN optimization, for example, there are several areas where end users can easily be “misled” by the monitoring/management tools they have in place, including packet loss and bandwidth utilization measurements. Here's how...

Virtual Insanity - Introducing the VX family

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:18:40 0000

Today we launched our VX family of virtual appliances to much fanfare. Why all the buzz???

A Quality Case for WAN optimization

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:23:58 0000

private line performance over the Internet. Some might call that Nirvana! if you fall into that category, read on...

Transplace talks with Computerworld about their Silver Peak ROI

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:18:29 0000

Transplace talks about how they are getting 28x data reduction with Silver Peak when doing replication, which enabled the company to delay a WAN bandwidth upgrade (from DS-3 to OC-3). Read the interview

Silver Peak selected by Wall St Journal as Top 50 private company

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:10:02 0000

Silver Peak was selected as "the next big thing" by WSJ! The company was selected after an extensive analysis of thousands of VC backed companies. Awesome validation of our product, technology and team!

Get an 8 month ROI with Silver Peak

Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:49:09 0000

Silver Peak recently worked with Forrester to do an ROI report on a global software company. Check out how this recognized market leader used WANop to save millions of dollars per year in bandwidth costs and productivity savings. Download the report here

Lessons Learned from Gartner Data Center Event

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:18:51 0000

Last week Silver Peak was exhibiting at Gartner’s Data Center conference in Vegas. I took this as an opportunity to meet with many of the Gartner analysts who cover projects that benefit from WAN optimization but don’t necessarily cover WAN optimization directly – initiatives like cloud computing, cloud storage, disaster recovery, unified communications, and desktop virtualization. At the same time, I met with quite a few Gartner clients who are in the midst of many of these important projects. Here are my thoughts...

End Users talk about WAN Optimization

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:05:09 0000

Have you seen Silver Peak's new WANtalk section? It is a great way to hear IT professionals discuss - in their own words - what drove them to deploy WAN optimization, and why they chose Silver Peak.

Silver Peak awarded patent for Network Memory

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:43:07 0000

We've been saying all along that our deduplication technology is something special. Now it's official - the US patent office agrees. Congrats to the Silver Peak engineering team!