WANop Bounces Back and Blasts Off

The year started off with a resounding thud for the WAN optimization market, with a 20% falloff in sales in the first quarter. While that big a drop was a surprise to Sam Barnett, directing analyst for data center and cloud at Infonetics Research, he said his company had been predicting that WANop, especially for [...]

WANop: Dying to be Different

The latest market research on SAN and data center network equipment shows that bigger, faster pipes are driving the biggest growth, but in many respects, it can be characterized as business as usual, says Sam Barnett, directing analyst for data center and cloud at Infonetics Research. But there are a number of trends emerging that [...]

No Blarney! Silver Peak WANop Comes to Emerald Isles

One IT distributor in the Emerald Isles appears to embrace the phrase “Erin go Bragh” – Ireland is Forever – as a charge for progressive technology as it prepares to make available to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland an award-winning WAN optimization solution from the United States. Commtech, one of Ireland’s leading IT [...]

Silver Peak Sways Finding in UK Law Firm’s Move to Cloud

In the court of technological success, cloud initiatives are highly dependent on underlying WAN infrastructure. But whereas WANs are often plagued by bandwidth limitations, latency, and packet loss, in the case of the Cloud vs. Thomson Snell & Passmore, Silver Peak’s data center class WAN optimization has swayed the decision in favor of the U.K.-based [...]