Want to see how storage customers are now achieving 20x faster offsite replication in 20 minutes or less? Now is your chance. This week at EMC World in Las Vegas, Silver Peak is demonstrating the power of replication acceleration software, which allows storage customers to overcome common network challenges that hamper replication between data centers. By [...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDDC But…
May 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In the 1972 film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask), Woody Allen offered his take on seven questions that included sheep, Woolite, and some of Gene Wilder’s best-ever work. There is no sex (or humor) involved in the just-completed four-part series on the software-defined data center by Torsten [...]
Broadband – A Game of Leap Frog, or Just A Squashed Toad?
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Being old and gnarly, I remember the way that I, as a Brit, could look down my nose at the Yanks during the late 1990s as our fully integrated mobile telephone system, stretching across the whole of the European continent was so modern. It made the US’ approach — having to tell a provider that [...]
Riverbed Patent Lawsuit Update
May 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We have just received news from the United States District Court regarding our patent dispute with Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD). The Riverbed trial against Silver Peak that was scheduled for September of this year has been removed from the schedule and the judge has ordered: “The dates, if any, for the ‘Riverbed trial’ should be [...]
Analysts: Silver Peak Fastest Growing Virtual WANop Vendor
May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Recently published reports from top industry analyst firms IDC and Dell’Oro Group reveal that the market for virtual wide area network (WAN) optimization products, which are now broken-out and tracked separately from hardware, is identified as the fastest growing segment of the WAN optimization market. Moreover, analysis shows that Silver Peak is a key leader [...]
Virtual Dilemmas: Why Virtual Optimization May Be Bad for Your Branch
Apr 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Just about every month I hear about why another company has adopted WAN optimization software. Some like virtual software’s lower costs (well, all like the lower cost), while others focus on how they were able to download and deploy the software in just a matter of hours. All agree that virtual software changes how we [...]
The Amazing Network Chameleon
Apr 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’ve always thought chameleons were cool. I actually had one when I was younger, and was fascinated by its ability to adapt to different surroundings by changing color. The networks of today are becoming technology chameleons that are adapting to meet the unique and ever-changing needs of their data centers and application workloads. No matter [...]
9 Technology Trends Driving The Adoption Of SDN
Apr 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Mike Fratto, my former editor at Network Computing, now a consultant at Current Analysis, recently wrote a blog entry that tried to cut through the 3 Hs of SDN — Hype, Hoopla and Hysteria — by posing what some consider the essential question of life (unless you’re a Monty Python or galactic hitchhiker fan, in [...]
Big Data Follows The Darkness
Apr 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
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