I remember when my parents took me to the Franklin Institute of Science, where I was astounded by the museum’s wild and weird Rube Goldberg-like contraption. I’d shoot away at that pool ball, watching it roll through a maze of tubes and conduits, spinning wheels and gears, all just see it pour a cup of [...]
The Best Hardware Refresh is NO Hardware Refresh At All
Feb 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
What would you do if Toyota made you buy a new car every three years? Say, on the third anniversay of your purchase, a letter arrives in the mail saying, “The Toyota Camry you purchased is no longer supported. If you’d like to keep driving, please contact us about buying a new model.” Would you [...]
Is data center consolidation causing bloating and congestion?
Jan 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you answered “yes,” well, I’ve got the remedy. If your enterprise is feeling the ill effects of poor WAN performance, you may assume it’s a bandwidth problem. If you invested in more bandwidth and a bigger pipe to ease the pain, and the problem persisted, the problem may be due to packet loss, latency [...]
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 [...]
Just Because You Don’t See It, Doesn’t Mean It’s Not There
Jan 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.” Shawn Fanning, Napster Founder Planning to support data center growth with reliable and sustainable network infrastructure is in some ways like [...]
Is “Big Iron” Needed to Move “Big Data”?
Jan 25, 2012 by 3 Comments
While there have been plenty of articles and buzz of late about the power of big data and even how WAN optimization will benefit big data, there’s been surprisingly little about what exactly constitutes a “Big Data” WAN optimizer. Yes, extreme scalability and resiliency are critical, but perhaps equally important is the use of off-the-shelf [...]
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 [...]
Silver Peak CTO and Founder, Dr. David Hughes, in the Big Apple
Jan 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You’ve read about David Hughes’ technology visions — now you can see him present in person! Join us in Manhattan for lunch and an interactive discussion about how WAN optimization has changed over the last year — and how you can derive even more from the technology. Learn how today’s demanding applications can benefit (reducing [...]
VX-Xpress Makes Alvin’s Singapore-based WAN Sizzle
Jan 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Alvinzzq reports in from Singapore with a simple VX-Xpress deployment experience. His company consists of several regional branches that were all working on a slow 1Mbps dedicate fiber or WiMAX VPN tunnel. Even sending a 10MB file through the WAN was a torturous process. However, once he installed VX-Xpress with the company’s existing ESXi servers, [...]
VMworld Survey Reveals Virtual’s Reality
Sep 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We’ve been busy at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas the last few days, introducing our new free, fully functional VX-Xpress WAN optimization solution, and the world’s highest capacity virtual WAN optimization appliance, the VRX-8. Throngs of show attendees flooded our booth, and while we had a captive audience, we conducted a little survey around the [...]
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