Silver Peak Integrates its WAN Optimization with EMC VPLEX Geo Technology

Silver Peak (News - Alert), a developer of data center class WAN optimization appliances, announced that it has integrated its data center class WAN optimization solutions with the new EMC (News - Alert) VPLEX Geo storage federation technology. This move is expected to offer up to 20 times improvement in WAN capacity while bringing down WAN Costs by up to 10 times and allow users to deploy more applications over existing WAN infrastructures.

Silver Peak said that it provides a robust WAN optimization solution that addresses the bandwidth, latency, and packet loss issues that are common to most enterprise environments. The company’s optimization techniques are all performed in real-time and primarily at the network (IP) layer to ensure maximum performance across the widest range of applications and WAN environments.

According to EMC, the new EMC VPLEX Geo storage federation technology enables active/active data over distance, allowing applications and data at two locations to be accessed, shared and dynamically moved thousands of miles. It is stated as a key enabling technology for hybrid clouds and provides significant operational efficiencies and business continuity capabilities by allowing dynamic application and data movement between customer and service provider data centers.

Officials with EMC said that VPLEX Geo removes the barriers for distributing and dynamically sharing information between data centers. By integrating with Silver Peak's data center class WAN optimization, customers can further reduce their WAN bandwidth requirements, accelerate the mobility of applications, and reduce WAN costs to take full advantage of virtual storage across any distance. This smart and dynamic integration allows IT organizations to truly virtualize their distributed storage environments and make information mobile, highly available, and collaborative at any geographical location.

Silver Peak claimed that EMC VPLEX Geo with Silver Peak is the perfect combination of major enterprise storage and leading data center class WAN optimization. The integration of technologies will enable customers to future-proof their networks and get more from WAN investments as they look to accelerate the mobility of applications and speed global collaboration.

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Edited by Carrie Schmelkin