Does HTML5 mean the end of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) as we know it today? In part five of this video series on 2013 IT trends, Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes discusses how more applications will be based on HTML5 and how HTML5 gets the application onto all different kinds of endpoints without [...]
Faster Access to the Amazon Cloud (Video)
Feb 28, 2013 by 1 Comment
Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers can be hundreds-to-thousands of miles away for a company’s core data center. And accessing those cloud data centers over lower-quality Internet connections can result in poor application performance and slow data transfers to the cloud. This video is a demonstration of Silver Peak software deployed as an Amazon Machine [...]
72% of IT Pros Want More Offsite Data Replication
Feb 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
An explosion of data being stored by businesses and the need to protect that data in the wake of recent natural disasters has 72% of organizations wanting to do more off-site data replication. This is according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Silver Peak. So what’s keeping today’s IT organizations [...]
Leading Tech Analyst Zeus Kerravala Joins WAN Speak
Feb 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’m excited to announce that respected information technology (IT) analyst and networking pundit Zeus Kerravala has joined the WAN Speak stable of contributing writers. Kerravala is one of the most frequently-quoted technology experts in business and technology trade press. He writes the “Network Intelligence” column for Network World and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as [...]
Wide Area Network Bottlenecks Persist (Video)
Feb 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Whether it’s increasing data volumes, expanding data replication requirements, or the overall growth of traffic on the Internet, there is no denying that the wide area network (WAN) bottleneck is more of a problem today than ever before. In fact, the increase in traffic and data traversing enterprise networks is outpacing the level of innovation [...]
Hyper-V goes Multi-Gigabit over the WAN (Video)
Feb 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The performance of hypervisors has reached a new level of intense competition. This video demonstrates the industry’s first and only multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) WAN acceleration solution for Windows Server Hyper-V environments. Silver Peak’s virtual offering for Windows Server Hyper-V now extends from small remote offices to large data centers, giving Microsoft Corp.’s hypervisor customers a highly [...]
Offsite Data Replication Becoming Mainstream (Video)
Jan 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Beyond the day-to-day mobility of data between data centers, branch offices and the cloud, it is also crucial that data be protected and kept secure. This means you need to replicate your data to another site or the cloud. If you look at recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Sandy or the Japan Tsunami and resulting [...]
Silver Peak Named to CRN Infrastructure 20
Jan 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
CRN has just released its annual Data Center 100 list, which highlights channel-friendly technology vendors that are powering, supporting and protecting today’s data center. As part of that list, CRN highlights the top infrastructure providers in what it calls the “Infrastructure 20.” The CRN Infrastructure 20 is a who’s-who list of the top technology infrastructure [...]
Virtualization Driving Shifts in IT Roles (Video)
Jan 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Virtualization is having more than just a technological impact, it is also driving shifts in the way companies organize their information technology (IT) departments. In part two of this video series featuring Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes, Dr. Hughes discusses how virtualization is driving organizational change within IT departments and how the traditional [...]
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) — Hype or Reality? (Video)
Jan 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Is Software-Defined Networking (SDN) real, or just PowerPoint? Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes talks about what’s real and what’s not when it comes to SDN. Hughes highlights that certain hypervisor-centric network elements will be deployed as software in the enterprise, citing the cost and simplicity benefits. Watch this video to learn more and [...]
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