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 [...]
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 [...]
SMTC Keeps Global Data Flowing
Apr 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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
Mar 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Big Data — a Job For a Logistics Company?
Mar 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
There was a thread going round on Facebook a while back discussing the “fact” that FedEx had more bandwidth for dealing with big data than the internet itself had. OK — it sounds strange, but if all of FedEx’s vehicles were stuffed to the max with disks full of data, it could move more data [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Your WAN Ready for the Next Generation of Backup and Recovery?
Jan 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So what did Santa bring your IT department this winter? If it was a shiny new disk-to-disk backup box to help protect your growing data storage estate, as it may have been for many organizations away from the bleeding edge, it is time to sort out how well this is going to fit with the [...]
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