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 [...]
Yes, Size Does Matter (Especially When It Comes To ADC Performance)
Apr 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’m not sure why this happens, but it seems that every few years, this industry likes to debate the death of certain markets. Application Delivery Controllers, particularly the tried-and-true hardware platforms, have been under attack before and seem to be again. To me, the concept that you could just build ADC functionality into another product [...]
EV Group Gets Über WAN Performance
Apr 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
€200,000 in IT Savings Buys Silver Peak a Sweet Trophy
Apr 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Hardware Refresh Backlash Reaches Boiling Point (Video)
Mar 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Perception Versus Reality (& Why Network Performance Matters)
Feb 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A new study from InformationWeek reports that there is a disconnect between the perceptions of end users and IT departments. While more than half (60%) of IT respondents said IT was integral, only 43% of non-IT participants concurred, and only half of business users reported being “moderately,” “very” or “completely” satisfied with the performance of [...]
Get Ready For The Year Of Solid-State Storage
Feb 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If this year’s CES in Las Vegas is anything to go by, 2013 is shaping up to be the year of professional solid-state storage. That might sound like a matter just for your storage team, but like so many other technology innovations before it, it will trigger changes right across IT from servers to the [...]
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 [...]
Should We KISS Workload Management Goodbye?
Nov 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I am always surprised at how IT goes around continually revisiting problems from the past. For example, in the 1990s, the constant refrain seemed to be around homogeneity — the search for the universal system that could run any workload that was thrown at it. Organizations eventually figured that there was a need for specialist [...]
Data Center Appliances See Virtual Growth
Nov 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Is there anything currently server-based that will not be virtualized in the future? It is starting to look as if the answer is “Not a lot”, with analysts reporting that one of the last hold-outs for actual physical hardware – the market for data center load balancers and WAN optimizers – is starting to make [...]
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