I realize we are at the tail-end of the political season, though politics seems to be a never-ending news topic. Personally, I don’t like politics, whether it’s government or state politics, politics in business, or especially when politics worms its way into personal relationships. After watching this election year’s political debates — the third and [...]
Going Green By Increasing Power Consumption
Sep 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This past weekend’s New York Times expose on the environmental dangers posed by data centers downplayed a major challenge facing all “green” initiatives. Data center architects are pushed today to balance reduced carbon footprint against many other factors, namely maintaining user experience. Case in point was a survey last winter of federal CIOs consolidating their [...]
Is data center consolidation causing bloating and congestion?
Jan 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you answered “yes,” well, I’ve got the remedy. If your enterprise is feeling the ill effects of poor WAN performance, you may assume it’s a bandwidth problem. If you invested in more bandwidth and a bigger pipe to ease the pain, and the problem persisted, the problem may be due to packet loss, latency [...]
Top of the Channel
Jan 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
OK, actually we’re among the top when it comes to channel-friendly technology vendors that increase data center efficiency in an environmentally and economically friendly manner. This according to the highly respected channel publication CRN, which today announced Silver Peak is one of the “CRN 2012 Data Center 100.” The growth of ‘big data’, cloud-based infrastructures [...]
Is your WAN caught in a Catch-22?
Oct 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
You may or may not remember “Catch-22,” the novel published in 1961 by Joseph Heller. Since then, Catch-22 has become a term generally used to describe a “no-win situation,” in which there is no positive outcome from any decision you make. Whether due to unavoidable or unforeseeable circumstances — or outside influences — Catch-22 situations [...]
WAN Optimization: Balancing Green with the Need for Speed
Sep 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Ah, data center consolidation: the vehicle by which today’s businesses may achieve “Green” status. The many Green benefits of data center consolidation have been hashed and rehashed, blogged about and discussed, hailed and revered so much so that they are forever burned into our minds to the point where even the government has gone out [...]
Do you have a BSD? Then you need NX-10K!
Jun 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
With the launch of the industry’s highest capacity WAN optimization appliance, the Silver Peak NX-10K, we are occasionally asked – who needs a device with so much capacity? The answer is simple – anyone with a Big Strategic Datacenter (BSD). Do you need to move large volumes of data for business continuity or disaster recovery? [...]
Going Green for Green
Apr 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
It’s April 15 again, and to every adult citizen of the U.S. that means one thing – income tax deadline! This year, individual taxpayers get a reprieve of a few days, until Monday, April 18, to file their taxes because Washington D.C. celebrates Emancipation Day today. Meanwhile, businesses across the country still have a few [...]
Tactics For read more Some Facts For 2013