The virtual revolution continues at Silver Peak with the introduction of three new virtual WAN optimization product models. Silver Peak extends its software portfolio for smaller sites with the VX-500, while also extending the offerings for data centers, regional offices and disaster recovery (DR) sites with the VX-6000 and VX-7000. The new virtual product models broaden [...]
WANop Turbo Charges Dell DR
May 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Disaster recovery is a bit of a necessary evil in business. It’s one plan that you absolutely must have in place, but hope you never need to use. Inevitably, though, in some way, shape or form, all businesses need to do some measure of disaster recovery at some point. It doesn’t take a tsunami or [...]
Why Software-based Virtual WANop is Taking Off (Video)
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As a pioneer in virtual WAN optimization, we also like to pioneer how you get more quality information about virtual WANop and WANop in general. Taking a slightly different approach, this is the first of a new series of video blogs where I bring you closer to the Silver Peak community of product experts, partners [...]
You can run but you can’t hide from virtual WANop
Apr 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I think the title of this blog sums it up best. With the growing adoption and compelling cost-to-performance ratio, you really can’t hide from virtual WAN optimization (WANop). The Virtual WAN Optimization Marketplace is living proof, today eclipsing 10,000 downloads. This is the latest evidence that the WAN optimization market is undergoing a fundamental transformation. [...]
Big Gifts Come in Small Packages
Jan 30, 2012 by 2 Comments
A user named Mrhoads has created a “demo in a box” to demonstrate a wide range “what-if” scenarios to customers that has some very cool features! His demo works off a single ESXi 5.0 server which hosts two VX-Xpress virtual machines, a WAN emulator and two Windows 7 hosts. The two VMs are configured in [...]
Satisfying the Need for Speed in Brazil
Jan 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the movie, “Top Gun,” satisfying the need for speed saved pilots’ lives. Today, a fast network saves revenue opportunities and people’s jobs. One of Silver Peak’s customers found this out first-hand. A user going by the name “Arles” works at a Brazilian company with one branch office and a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) link [...]
The Epic Rise of WAN Optimization
Jan 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Stick around this industry long enough and you’re bound to hear the “same old-same old” posited as if it’s truly novel. Such is the case with this recent post by Lori MacVittie on the “epic failure” of standalone WAN optimization. It advises that to really improve application performance one needs to fix the applications themselves [...]
VX-Xpress Makes Alvin’s Singapore-based WAN Sizzle
Jan 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Alvinzzq reports in from Singapore with a simple VX-Xpress deployment experience. His company consists of several regional branches that were all working on a slow 1Mbps dedicate fiber or WiMAX VPN tunnel. Even sending a 10MB file through the WAN was a torturous process. However, once he installed VX-Xpress with the company’s existing ESXi servers, [...]
A picture is worth a thousand words with VX-Xpress
Dec 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To stay true to that statement, I’ll try to convey my story in as few words as possible. A few weeks back, we had one of my favorite Silver Peak VX-Xpress (VX-X) “Cool Deployment” posts yet: a VX-X community user by the name “ankit” made a [...]
5,300 Virtual WANop Downloads and Growing
Dec 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Virtual WAN optimization remains an unavoidable and disruptive market force, offering one of the most compelling cost-to-performance benefits in networking and information technology. This is evident today by the Silver Peak VX-Xpress (VX-X) being downloaded more than 5,300 times since it was introduced just three months ago! Silver Peak’s VX-X is a free fully-functional virtual [...]
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