Over the last few months, I have moderated three software-defined networking (SDN) seminars that were produced by Network World. In each seminar a number of speakers spoke at length about the potential for SDN to automate the vast majority of configuration changes that are now done in a largely manual fashion, and in every session [...]
$250M in Riverbed Steelhead Refresh Targeted by Silver Peak
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
According to an April 2013 report by Baird Equity Research, “[Riverbed] management has cited a $250 million install base of 20 series product that goes end-of-life early next year. We see this as important product refresh opportunity for the company in its core market.” Silver Peak also recognizes this as a critical opportunity and has [...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDDC But…
May 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Analysts: Silver Peak Fastest Growing Virtual WANop Vendor
May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Recently published reports from top industry analyst firms IDC and Dell’Oro Group reveal that the market for virtual wide area network (WAN) optimization products, which are now broken-out and tracked separately from hardware, is identified as the fastest growing segment of the WAN optimization market. Moreover, analysis shows that Silver Peak is a key leader [...]
Virtual Dilemmas: Why Virtual Optimization May Be Bad for Your Branch
Apr 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Just about every month I hear about why another company has adopted WAN optimization software. Some like virtual software’s lower costs (well, all like the lower cost), while others focus on how they were able to download and deploy the software in just a matter of hours. All agree that virtual software changes how we [...]
Business Thrives When Applications Become Services
Apr 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
With a basic web application, the user sends a request over the network to a server that returns the application or content to the user’s browser. The browser simply renders and displays the information from the formatted pages sent from the server. However, many of today’s web applications are much more complex with a lot [...]
SDN, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Software-Defined Everything
Apr 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As someone who actually practiced atomic bomb drills at public school — “bend over, put your head between your knees and kiss your @$$ goodbye” — ‘Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb‘ was not only a rollicking good black comedy, but a very alarming and cautionary tale. I’m [...]
Pushing Citrix XenServer to Multi-Gig WAN Speeds
Mar 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Hypervisor competition continues to intensify, and today, it reaches a new crest on Citrix XenServer. This video demonstrates the industry’s first and only multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) data acceleration solution for Citrix XenServer environments. Silver Peak’s virtual software for Citrix XenServer now extends across small remote offices and large data centers, giving Citrix hypervisor customers a highly [...]
The Cloud Redefines Corporate WAN Strategies
Mar 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The cloud is everywhere today and has become one of the biggest — if not the biggest — topics of conversation in the tech industry. I recently did a CIO roundtable where we discussed the cloud, and the big topics of conversation revolve around security and deployment strategies. This makes sense, based on where we [...]
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 [...]
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