$250M in Riverbed Steelhead Refresh Targeted by Silver Peak

According to an April 2013 report by Baird Equity Research, “[Riverbed] management has cited a $250 million install base of 20 series product that goes end-of-life early next year. We see this as important product refresh opportunity for the company in its core market.” Silver Peak also recognizes this as a critical opportunity and has [...]

Learn Replication Acceleration at EMC World

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 [...]

Analysts: Silver Peak Fastest Growing Virtual WANop Vendor

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 [...]

World’s Fastest Virtual and Hardware WAN Optimization (Video)

Silver Peak continues to raise the bar for WAN optimization performance, featuring the highest-capacity virtual and hardware products. In this video, Silver Peak VP of product management Damon Ennis highlights Silver Peak’s performance leadership in delivering the fastest WAN optimization software and hardware appliances. This includes multi-gigabit virtual WAN accelerators, and the industry’s first and [...]

EV Group Gets Über WAN Performance

For a global company connecting multiple remote offices, it means overcoming wide area network (WAN) bandwidth, distance and quality challenges. This was the case for EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of precision systems for processing wafers for the semiconductor, microsystem and nanotechnology sectors. EVG deployed data acceleration software from Silver Peak to accelerate data and [...]

SMTC Keeps Global Data Flowing

SMTC (Nasdaq: SMTX) is a global electronics manufacturing services provider that has more than 2,000 employees who rely on a variety of centrally-hosted applications including ERP, Windows-based file sharing, and remote desktop (RDP) connections. Like many other companies similar in size to SMTC, increasing data volumes and a congested MPLS network were impeding the company’s long-distance [...]

Storage Pros Get DIY Replication Acceleration

Most storage professionals understand the importance of offsite data replication, but until now, have been handcuffed by the network when attempting to extend the distance of their replication workloads. In fact, a recent study confirmed that 72% of organizations want to replicate more data to an offsite location, but among those, 66% acknowledge being limited [...]

Pushing Citrix XenServer to Multi-Gig WAN Speeds

Hypervisor competition continues to intensify, and today, it reaches a new crest on Citrix XenServer. This video demonstrates the industry’s first and only multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) data acceleration solution for Citrix XenServer environments. Silver Peak’s virtual software for Citrix XenServer now extends across small remote offices and large data centers, giving Citrix hypervisor customers a highly [...]

Arista, Brocade, Silver Peak talk SDN

The excitement and interest around software defined networking (SDN) continues to grow, with new webinars, white papers, press releases, and conference presentations being published every day. Today, at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference being held at the Le Parker Meridien hotel in New York, Silver Peak joins Arista and Brocade for a powerhouse [...]

Hardware Refresh Backlash Reaches Boiling Point (Video)

Part six of a video series on 2013 IT trends features Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes talking about the vendor-imposed hardware refresh cycle. Hughes highlights which networking and data center functions will remain hardware and which will move to software. Watch part 1: Software Defined Networking (SDN) – Hype or Reality? Watch part 2: Virtualization [...]