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 [...]
In the Cloud, Many Enterprises Overlook the Most Critical Component
Feb 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
It seems that everyone today is talking about “the cloud,” but most of the discussion seems to be about putting a bunch of machines in one place to achieve elastic compute capabilities. What hasn’t received as much attention are the “networking” aspects of cloud deployments. And if there is any attention to networking, it tends [...]
Liberating WAN optimization
Feb 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Today’s IT initiatives, such as data center consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery share a common notion — all presume a well-performing WAN. Unfortunately, the growing use of these services are being limited by WAN infrastructure burdened with bandwidth limitations, latency, and unreliable packet delivery. Applications running across these networks often under-perform, aggravating customers and raising [...]
Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
Nov 16, 2011 by 1 Comment
One of the most spectacular effects of a cloudy sky following a storm is the rainbow that often appears. While rainbows are often preceded by violent storms that might otherwise make us cold, wet, and uncomfortable, looking up afterward to see an incredibly colorful arch in the sky somehow makes us feel better. As children, [...]
In Cleveland? Let’s talk WANOp Over Lunch!
Nov 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Happy Holidays to all IT and networking professionals in the Cleveland area! Start your December off in a festive way by joining Silver Peak and Avaya at our special lunch, where you will not only enjoy a fabulous meal, but also scintillating conversation about the latest developments in WAN optimization and replication technology–and how they [...]
Bringing “WANop Anywhere,” Everywhere
Oct 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Silver Peak continues “spanning the globe” to share the benefits of data center class “WAN optimization Anywhere.” Two weeks ago, it was VMworld Copenhagen, Gartner Symposium in Orlando, IP Expo in London, and the vForum in Sydney. This week, the tour continues with events in the U.S., Germany, and Indonesia. Here’s a round-up of the [...]
Silver Peak Joins Open Virtualization Alliance
Sep 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
As the leader in data center class WAN optimization, Silver Peak is committed to developing and delivering a full range of virtual solutions that are easily deployed in all enterprise locations and on any platform or hypervisor — from the smallest branch office to the largest data center. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a key [...]
The Skinny on Fat Pipes (Part 2)
Sep 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This is part two of our “The Skinny on Fat Pipes” discussion. In part one, we talked about how WAN deduplication plays a role in optimizing high-capacity WANs. Now, let’s discuss how to overcome packet loss and out of order packets in fat pipes. We will also touch on how to support large data center [...]
Virtual open architecture for WAN optimization anywhere
Aug 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
WAN optimization is now vital to all aspects of a distributed network. Gone are the days when WAN optimization was only required to address the issues of a handful of problem WAN connections. Today, major IT initiatives such as data center consolidation, cloud computing, virtualization, and disaster recovery share a common theme — and a [...]
Video: WAN Optimization for Next-Gen Data Centers
Jun 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Here is a great video of Silver Peak vice president of product management Damon Ennis talking about the new NX-10K appliance, the industry’s first multi-Gigabit WAN optimization appliance for next generation data centers and the industy’s highest-capacity WAN optimization appliance. This will be instrumental in helping customers “future-proof” the WAN for cloud and virtualization architectures [...]
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