More great news from the UK… Silver Peak has won the prestigious “Network Project of the Year – Private Sector” award from Network Computing magazine for our deployment at United Drug. Silver Peak, in conjunction with our local reseller, Comsys, helped United Drug with a major data center consolidation project, which included a substantial overhaul [...]
Silver Peak Project Wins Computer Weekly European User Award
Mar 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Great news from across the pond as it has been announced that Silver Peak’s project with silicon and software platform provider, CSR, has won the “Private Sector Project Award” in the UK Computer Weekly European User Awards! It’s great to be recognized by one of the UK’s most respectable IT publications, and this award is [...]
Data Acceleration “Worst” Practices
Feb 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I am constantly getting emails with “Best Practice” advice — for everything from traveling to IT. Well, it got me thinking: why doesn’t anyone provide “Worst Practice” advice? Can’t we all learn from other people’s mistakes? So here goes, this is my top 5 list of misconceptions and things to avoid in the data acceleration [...]
“The Cloud Isn’t Just For Storing Tweets”
Jan 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I love the title above. I saw it in a great article by Derrick Harris in GigaOM where he talks to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood about the symbiotic nature of big data and cloud computing. While Justin Bieber may disagree, those of us in IT know that the implications of Software-as-a-Service, [...]
Sometimes You CAN Have It All…
Jan 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
All too often life requires compromise. If you want dessert, cut back on the main course. If you want functionality, you must sacrifice style. Well, I was looking at Silver Peak’s most recent customer announcement about NCCW and saw something interesting. This organization, which is one of the largest ASPs in the Netherlands, has a [...]
Giving Thanks for the Future of SDDC
Nov 22, 2012 by 1 Comment
When I come back from an industry conference, I always like to see what members of the press have had to say about it. It’s interesting to compare the writer’s take to my own and see if we agree or differ on some of the prime messaging that occurred at the show. One synopsis of [...]
Ding Dong, The Physical Chassis is Dead
Oct 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We at Silver Peak spend a good deal of time and effort touting the benefits of virtual WAN optimization. It is often more cost-effective than a physical solution. It can be downloaded and deployed in minutes from our marketplace. It reduces space and environmental costs in the branch office and data center. And you can [...]
Velocity Already Shortlisted for Awards
Sep 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Well, Velocity is barely out the door and it is already a crowd favorite. In the UK, Silver Peak’s Velocity solution has been shortlisted for two SVC awards: “Storage Networking Product of the Year” and “Storage Software of the Year.” I guess fast replication performance, fast deployment, and very attractive pricing resonates with our friends [...]
Will Performance and Security Standards Emerge in the Cloud?
Sep 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I was recently chatting with an analyst who brought up the issue of “standards” as they pertain to cloud. He felt that the notion of “cloud” brings flexibility, scale and cost savings to the enterprise, but pitfalls lurk in area of performance and security. He wondered if standards could evolve to help on those fronts, [...]
How Revolutionary is IT?
Jul 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The word “revolution” has two interesting yet somewhat contradictory definitions. One the one hand, it means “a sudden, complete or marked change in something.” On the other hand, it means “a procedure or course that goes back to a starting point.” The first definition implies something groundbreaking and new. The American revolution, which is being [...]
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