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Seventy percent of employees work in branch and remote offices today, yet fewer than thirteen percent of enterprises feel that deploying servers in these locations is a viable approach to delivering business critical applications, such as file, email, and storage.
The case for server centralization is compelling: facilitated management, fewer security risks, improved auditing capabilities to ensure corporate and regulatory compliance, simplified backup and disaster recovery, and lower overall infrastructure costs.
However, running business critical applications remotely over a WAN can slow performance to a crawl. In the past year, ninety-five percent of companies have experienced challenges delivering applications to workers in remote and branch offices despite brute force attempts at addressing this issue, including server upgrades and adding WAN capacity.
Silver Peak offers a strategic solution that enables LAN-like application performance while maintaining centralized control and management of IT infrastructure. Silver Peak's NX appliances secure and improve application response time over the WAN for all enterprise applications, with 200x performance improvements in some instances. This is achieved through the following unique capabilities:
- Maximize WAN bandwidth - Silver Peak reduces over 90% of WAN traffic through disk based data reduction and compression. This enables enterprises to support centralization projects without having to upgrade WAN capacity
- Improve application response times - Local information delivery, coupled with latency mitigation techniques, ensure that all applications work across the WAN with LAN-like performance. Silver Peak also addresses performance challenges that come from packet loss across the WAN, as is often the case with IP-VPNs and MPLS networks. By employing a variety of techniques to improve application response time, Silver Peak overcomes the single biggest challenge to server and storage centralization - poor WAN performance.
- Quality of Service (QoS) - When servers and storage are centralized, more applications are sent across the WAN. A robust QoS scheme is required to ensure that critical applications are not starved and that real-time traffic is prioritized for optimal performance.
- End-to-end Data security - Security and compliance are often the main drivers for server centralization. This goal can be compromised when servers are replaced with insecure WAN acceleration devices. SIlver Peak overcomes this concern by employing 128 bit encryption of local data stores on WAN traffic as part of the company's Secure Content Architecture™.
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