For a global company connecting multiple remote offices, it means overcoming wide area network (WAN) bandwidth, distance and quality challenges. This was the case for EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of precision systems for processing wafers for the semiconductor, microsystem and nanotechnology sectors. EVG deployed data acceleration software from Silver Peak to accelerate data and [...]
Data Acceleration “Worst” Practices
Feb 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I am constantly getting emails with “Best Practice” advice — for everything from traveling to IT. Well, it got me thinking: why doesn’t anyone provide “Worst Practice” advice? Can’t we all learn from other people’s mistakes? So here goes, this is my top 5 list of misconceptions and things to avoid in the data acceleration [...]
“The Cloud Isn’t Just For Storing Tweets”
Jan 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I love the title above. I saw it in a great article by Derrick Harris in GigaOM where he talks to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood about the symbiotic nature of big data and cloud computing. While Justin Bieber may disagree, those of us in IT know that the implications of Software-as-a-Service, [...]
Data: The Newest Liquid Asset
Oct 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When you think of liquid assets, the first thing that probably comes to mind is cash. But, in today’s Internet-driven world, an enterprise’s biggest liquid asset is data. Vast amounts of highly valuable and extremely prized data flows over public and shared networks. This data is highly mobile; moving across diverse and distributed networks, and [...]
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 [...]
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