Founded in 2004, Silver Peak is a privately
held company that improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers and facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving application performance across the Wide Area Network (WAN). The company’s award winning Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) delivers exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented security and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication, backup, file transfers, email, web and real-time applications such as Citrix and VoIP.
Silver Peak is headquartered in
Santa Clara, California with regional offices throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
The Need for WAN Optimization
WAN optimization reduces the amount of traffic sent across the WAN and delivers information locally whenever possible. This improves the costs associated with application delivery – from staffing, infrastructure and facility costs to expenditures in application software and WAN bandwidth. In addition, WAN optimization protects investments in business critical applications by ensuring that they meet end user performance objectives, and it minimizes risk of exposure by improving the performance and reliability of data backup, replication and recovery. As a result, WAN optimization provides an extremely rapid return on investment, plus the intangible benefit of increased end user productivity and unsurpassed IT satisfaction.
There are several areas where enterprises can benefit from WAN optimization, which include:
Improve the Performance and Reliability of Disaster Recovery - Disaster recovery can be particularly difficult to achieve across a WAN. For one, backup, replication and recovery involve the transfer of entire volumes of data, which require a significant amount of WAN bandwidth. In addition, many business continuity tasks react poorly when in the presence of high latency, resulting in application timeouts and subsequent database synchronization problems.
WAN optimization overcomes these challenges by reducing the amount of data sent across the WAN during the backup, replication, and restore processes, and delivering information locally whenever possible to accelerate application response time. In addition, TCP acceleration and Quality of Service (QoS) help overcome other bandwidth and latency challenges that often plague disaster recovery initiatives.
Improve Application Performance across the WAN - There are inherent limitations associated with Wide Area Networks that make it difficult to deliver business critical applications to remote and branch offices. Bandwidth is limited and costly to provide, latency occurs when communication is taking place over long geographic distances, and network congestion can lead to packet loss. The back-off mechanisms incorporated within TCP, coupled with the “chatty” behavior of common application protocols, such as CIFS, further exacerbate the situation. The result is poor application response time in many enterprise WAN environments. By overcoming these limitations, WAN acceleration can improve employee productivity and protect investments in business critical applications while save on ongoing support costs and WAN bandwidth expenditures.
Facilitate Data Center Consolidation- According to recent Computerworld and Ziff Davis surveys, over 80% of enterprises are either exploring branch office infrastructure consolidation projects, or have already taken steps towards this goal. By facilitating the centralization of servers and storage, WAN acceleration can save a significant amount of money in infrastructure costs, software investments, WAN bandwidth, and day-to-day operational expenditures.
Our Differentiation: Data Center Class WAN Optimization
In the world of WAN optimization, data center class products are designed to support high capacity WANs and a diverse mix of applications. When WAN optimization is the most challenging, these are the products you trust.
This is Silver Peak’s specialty.
Silver Peak's virtual and physical appliances provide the highest capacity of any WAN optimization solution on the market. By employing real-time network optimization techniques, Silver Peak benefits all enterprise IP applications.
With Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solution, large amounts of data can be moved across long distances. In addition, enterprises save money by avoiding WAN bandwidth upgrades and leveraging cost effective MPLS and Internet VPN technologies. This is achieved with industry leading scalability, performance and reliability, making Silver Peak strategic to a variety of data center class initiatives, such as data center consolidation, disaster recovery, server centralization, and desktop virtualization.
Our Customers
Silver Peak customers span virtually all industry segments in all parts of the world. These enterprises
are using Silver Peak for a variety of business initiatives.
Some companies, like Merial (Sanofi), The Prudential UK, and Columbia Sportswear, are using Silver Peak for data center consolidation and data migration.
VMware, Google, Autodesk and others are using Silver Peak to optimize there centralized applications, which include voice, video, file, email, Autocad and dozens of other types of traffic.
Ebay, Linklaters, and The Doctors are examples of customers who are using Silver Peak to optimize virtual desktops.
Many companies, like Toshiba, NYK logistics, and Petco are using Silver Peak to optimize the performance of various replication applications across MPLS and Internet VPNs.
Our Partners
Silver Peak is 100% sold through channel. This includes a wide range of resellers and managed service providers located throughout the world. In addition, Silver Peak is resold by Dell, EMC, and HDS globally.
With VXOA, Silver Peak is actively working to integrate our WAN optimization solution into various complimentary solutions - from routers and blades to servers and storage arrays. Here is a list of the technology partners that we are engaing..
