There’s no shortage of interest around moving enterprise data and applications to the cloud. The big question is the rate of adoption. What’s really keeping enterprises from diving into the cloud full-force? The answer is not so profound, and has been right in front of all us for quite some time. It’s the wide area [...]
Buzz at EMC World
May 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When it comes to “buzz” in the tech industry, you don’t get much bigger than the Cloud and “Big Data.” Since surveys show a third or more of companies are already working with cloud providers and analysts predict data storage could reach nearly 2.5 zettabytes (that’s 2.5 billion terabytes) this year, that buzz seems to [...]
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 [...]
Serenity Now!
Apr 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes is the one in which Frank Costanza yells, “Serenity Now!” every time his blood pressure was in danger of rising. Clearly, he was using this “technique” to relieve his stress. Unfortunately, Frank’s method of relaxation drove everyone else crazy. While data centers and WAN infrastructures continue to grow in [...]
Why My Mama Runs Faster Than Your App
Apr 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You know the drill. The request comes down to run XYZ app between offices. You run it on the LAN and, of course it all looks fine, but when you put it on the WAN, performance drops about as fast Rich Eisen on the 40. Now you need to explain the problem to your users [...]
I’ll Have Some WANop with That
Mar 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Good service is the core of good business, so it came as little surprise during the last decade that companies in the technology industry began moving toward service models to enhance their ability to serve their customers…and they all came with “catchy” acronyms. It began with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and then moved to Software [...]
Too Good To Be True? Nope!
Mar 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Have you ever heard of something that sounded so good, it must be “too good to be true”? So you checked it out, and sure enough, it was as good, or even better, than you expected. Can you imagine getting cool, new technology that could cost tens-of-thousands of dollars – for free? This same technology could [...]
Look! On the Internet! It’s a Phone! It’s an iPad! It’s a Laptop!
Mar 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
No… It’s all of them! OK, the title is a poor attempt to play off the Superman theme. Hopefully, it was enough to get your attention. And it is relevant for today’s network computing environment for virtually any enterprise. Not only are employees accessing applications and downloading files from these devices and others, they are [...]
Optimizing Satellite WANs for Armed Forces in Afghanistan
Mar 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Global telecom service providers that rely on satellite wide area networks (WANs) face challenges from high-latency and packet errors. Telecommunications provider Carrier to Carrier Telecom B.V. (C2C) faced these problems while providing satellite connectivity services to various armed forces in Afghanistan. C2C found the solution with Silver Peak virtual WAN optimizers, and now benefits from [...]
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