We have just received news from the United States District Court regarding our patent dispute with Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD). The Riverbed trial against Silver Peak that was scheduled for September of this year has been removed from the schedule and the judge has ordered: “The dates, if any, for the ‘Riverbed trial’ should be [...]
World’s Fastest Virtual and Hardware WAN Optimization (Video)
Apr 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Silver Peak Makes Storage Replication Easy
Apr 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Prior to being an analyst I held many roles in corporate IT, including being responsible for protecting the company’s information, so I understand the absolute mission-critical nature of backup/restore and disaster recovery. However, I also understand that this is one of the hardest things to get right within corporate IT. I’ve often joked that every [...]
€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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“The Cloud Isn’t Just For Storing Tweets”
Jan 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I love the title above. I saw it in a great article by Derrick Harris in GigaOM where he talks to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood about the symbiotic nature of big data and cloud computing. While Justin Bieber may disagree, those of us in IT know that the implications of Software-as-a-Service, [...]
Sometimes You CAN Have It All…
Jan 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
All too often life requires compromise. If you want dessert, cut back on the main course. If you want functionality, you must sacrifice style. Well, I was looking at Silver Peak’s most recent customer announcement about NCCW and saw something interesting. This organization, which is one of the largest ASPs in the Netherlands, has a [...]
Riverbed Patents Called into Question
Jan 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently reexamined two Riverbed patents (7,428,573 & 7,849,134) and rejected all of the claims in each patent that Riverbed has accused Silver Peak of infringing. Silver Peak had requested the USPTO reexamine these patents that Riverbed alleges are infringed by Silver Peak. In its Office Action, the [...]
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