Earlier this month VMWare held its quarterly call with financial analysts to go over its most recent numbers. The results for the recently-closed December 2012 quarter were fine — in fact, more than fine, as they slightly beat the expectations of Wall Street. However, its guidance for the upcoming quarter, and for the upcoming full [...]
OpenStack Ready for Primetime?
Nov 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As a strong supporter and an active contributor to software defined networking (SDN), Silver Peak wouldn’t have missed the OpenStack Summit in San Diego. This year’s OpenStack Summit offered a forum both for engineering design discussions and user/partner experience exchanges. It was loaded with sessions in multiple categories and at all levels, and aimed to [...]
Virtual as Good or Better than Physical
Nov 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Silver Peak just finished a record fiscal year in July. Our total sales were up over 30%, and sales to new customers were up almost 50%. We truly are gaining momentum in the marketplace with our product leadership and we remain bullish on the market opportunity for virtual WAN acceleration deployments. Virtualization has been a [...]
Will SDN + SDS + SDDC = SDC?
Oct 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As I go round the event circuit, there is always the buzz around the latest topic de jour. Vendors love something new – it gives them a relatively blank sheet to start a new marketing campaign against, and a chance to try and take the high ground against the competition. The obvious ones over the [...]
The Software-Defined Data Center
Sep 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
VMware hosted its US-based user conference in San Francisco last week. Entitled VMworld, the conference had roughly 20,000 attendees and over 280 vendors set up booths in the exhibit hall, making it one of the largest vendor conferences in the IT industry. In addition to its sheer scale, the conference was interesting both in terms [...]
The New Convergence: Storage and Virtualization
Aug 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This past week, EMC announced several new solutions to support virtual environments: the VNXe3150 and, more interestingly, according to CRN, plans to bundle Avamar Virtual Edition into VCenter. Now that the VMWorld Conference is in full swing here San Francisco this week, I thought I would share some observations on how the worlds of storage [...]
Point-and-Click VM Acceleration (Video)
Aug 20, 2012 by 1 Comment
Watch this video to see how Silver Peak is continuing to revolutionize and simplify WAN optimization for a broader audience. Today we unveiled the first point-and-click solution for accelerating individual workloads directly from VMware vCenter and other virtual infrastructure management consoles. This is part of Silver Peak’s new “Agility” technology initiative that focuses on improving [...]
Virtualization 101
Aug 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Many folks that work in high-tech have a tendency to get so absorbed in their own technology or work (a.k.a. “the Kool-Aid”) that they often leave the rest of the world behind in day-to-day conversations. We at Silver Peak were even called out for this in a front page San Jose Mercury News article back in [...]
If You Want Agility, Virtualize the Network
Aug 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In my last blog, I discussed how there is pressure on IT organizations to become increasingly agile and to move away from an organizational culture in which seemingly every project takes at least six to nine months to complete. Part of the stress that IT organizations are feeling comes from the fact that most businesses [...]
VMware-Nicira: The Impact of Virtualization on Networking (Video)
Aug 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
VMware’s acquisition of Nicira made waves across the industry. Watch this video of Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley commenting on the VMware acquisition of Nicira, and the impact virtualization will have on networking.
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