For the third consecutive year, Silver Peak has been recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. This has been a tremendous year for Silver Peak and we believe being one of only two companies to be positioned as […]
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We’re two for two! This week Gartner published its 2019 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, and I’m proud to report that once again Silver Peak has been positioned in the Leader’s quadrant. Last year Gartner published the inaugural 2018 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge […]
For the past three years, the software-defined WAN or SD-WAN, has been one of the most talked about technology trends. By some estimations there are 60+ vendors, all marketing their products around the concept of SD-WAN, each vying to carve out a piece of this […]
As more than 100,000 attendees from around the world descend on Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona this week, there will be many new and exciting communications technologies on display, ranging from IoT to 5G to augmented reality to artificial intelligence, machine learning and SD-WAN […]
Many service providers today are offering managed SD-WAN services that provide basic network connectivity and network-centric features such as WAN optimization, network monitoring, and some level of application performance management. Managing a new mix of network providers and service types for each customer location has […]
Most service providers are continuing to invest significant capital and operational resources in selecting, on-boarding, testing and integrating various vendor-specific virtualized network functions (VNFs) as part of a long-term network functions virtualization (NFV) strategy. On-boarding VNFs is the process by which a VNF is made […]
We are excited to announce today that Silver Peak has joined MEF. With 130+ members, MEF’s new SD-WAN initiatives are intended to address implementation challenges and help service providers to accelerate managed SD-WAN service deployments. Some of this work involves defining SD-WAN use cases, and […]
A recent article identified what Gartner considers to be the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2017, one of which is machine learning. Per that article, machine learning has reached a tipping point and will increasingly augment and extend virtually every technology-enabled service and application. […]
In 2016 SD-WANs were the hottest topic in networking. That raises an obvious question that I will use the next two blogs to try to answer. That question is: What changes can we expect to see relative to SD-WAN adoption in 2017? The multi-year SD-WAN […]
Arguably the most influential documents in IT are the revered Magic Quadrants from Gartner. Vendors and end-users alike await the publication of the various MQs to see who are the Leaders, the Challengers, the Niche players and the Visionaries in the respective industries. We all […]