Silver Peak overcomes common Wide Area Network (WAN) challenges that can adversely impact the strategic tasks associated with distance extension. More specifically, Silver Peak addresses bandwidth, latency, and packet-loss problems across the WAN to maximize data throughput and enhance the performance and reliability of data replication and disaster recovery—all of which ensures fast access to storage devices.
Silver Peak’s NX appliances have completed Brocade’s Data Center Ready certification, which means the Silver Peak solution has been verified by Brocade Communications Systems Inc. for compatibility with Brocade-based Storage Area Networking (SAN) infrastructure according to the testing requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready Program.
Silver Peak is also a Select member of Brocade's Developer Program. In joining this program, Silver Peak is committed to working with Brocade and other partners to ensure ongoing product compatibility and to create effective go-to-market tools for selling a joint Silver Peak / Brocade solution
Below is a collection of collateral and technical documentation that describe how Silver Peak works with Brocade (and other mutual partners). Registration is required only once.
Please send any inquiries on the Silver Peak product line or questions pertaining to the Brocade/Silver Peak partnership to brocade@silver-peak.com.
The benefits of a combined Brocade / Silver Peak solution include:
Improve Recovery Point and Time Objectives (RPO/RTO)
Avoid or delay WAN bandwidth upgrades
Enable SAN replication across cost effective shared WAN infrastructures, like MPLS and IP VPNs
Increase the geographic distance between disaster recovery facilities
Silver Peak works with all IP replication products, which includes many Brocade partners like EMC, HDS, NetApp, and Dell. For more information on how Silver Peak works with these (and other) solutions, please click here
Silver Peak rated the “Best Current Product offering” by Forrester
Silver Peak is compared to eight other leading WAN optimization vendors in Forrester's Wave Report on WAN Optimization Appliances. In the end, Silver Peak earned the highest overall score for “current product offering,” with TOP marks in the following areas:
The WAN Optimization Landscape for Disaster Recovery
Tony Asaro, a senior analyst at ESG, asserts that the WAN link very often is the weak link in data protection, with staggering effects on the enterprise.
The Data Replication Bottleneck: Overcoming Out-of-Order and Lost Packets
Jim Metzler addresses the challenges of performing data replication in MPLS and IP VPN environments where packet delivery problems can jeopardize application performance.
