Good Marketing or Product U-Turn?

Riverbed’s announcement of a new “Packet Mode Optimization” feature in RiOS 7 is puzzling. In many ways, it seems like more of a marketing ploy than a serious technology focus. Speaking of technology, I can’t help but be amused at Riverbed’s brand new tunnel-based architecture. Aside from the fact that a new architecture that hasn’t [...]

Silver Peak Continues Tour with EMC

Still basking in its joint announcement at EMC World in May around Silver Peak’s WAN Optimization (WANop) solution supporting EMC’s VPLEX Geo storage federation technology, Silver Peak will continue its tour with EMC when the EMC Forum events continue in Long Beach today. The EMC Forum events give IT personnel a chance to meet representatives [...]

Virtual Machine Migration with EMC VPLEX Geo

Check out this demonstration of the Silver Peak WAN optimization integration with EMC VPLEX Geo to accelerate a virtual machine (VM) migration over a long-distance, cross-country WAN.

EMC storage president Brian Gallagher on VPLEX Geo and Silver Peak

EMC president of enterprise storage Brian Gallagher talks about the integration of EMC VPLEX Geo with Silver Peak data center class WAN optimization for accelerating private clouds and the benefits of Silver Peak WAN optimization.