Virtual Insanity - Introducing the VX family
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- On: 06/21/2010 09:18:40
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Putting Your WAN in Overdrive - Interview in IT Business Edge
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 01/14/2009 08:09:00
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Q&A: Silver Peak CEO Warns of Packet Loss During Data Replication
- By: Silver Peak
- On: 11/03/2008 12:24:38
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Silver Peak Systems CEO Rick Tinsley said that more and more organizations are taking advantage of the cheap, abundant bandwidth of Multiprotocol Layer Switching (MPLS) and Internet-based wide-area networks (WANs). However, they aren't paying enough attention to the issue of IP packet loss, which is common to newer types of WANs. Tinsley said that MPLS is gaining popularity over the older and more expensive system of using private telco lines for multisite backup and data replication. He also said that distance replication is replacing the practice of shipping tapes for remote data protection. But when he sat down with SearchStorage.com to discuss the market for WAN acceleration, Tinsley warned about packet loss and security issues that go with the new methods of WAN connectivity.
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