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Over the next five years, seventy percent of enterprises will move or significantly modify their data center facilities due to limits in power, cooling, efficiency and space. At the same time, there is a strong desire to lower facility costs and reduce operational expenditures by eliminating redundant facilities. This has elevated data center consolidation to the top of most CIO agendas.
While data center consolidation saves significant time and money, it presents unique performance challenges as users vie for shared resources. In addition, remote users that are far away from centralized servers and storage can experience inconsistent, unreliable and overall disappointing application performance.
Data migration further adds to the challenges of data center consolidation. How can enormous volumes of data be moved to new locations quickly and cost effectively?
Silver Peak's WAN optimization solution is strategic to data center consolidation and data migration initiatives. With Silver Peak's NX appliances, enterprises receive the following benefits:
- Maximize WAN bandwidth / Lower WAN expenditures- Silver Peak reduces over 95% of WAN traffic through disk based WAN deduplication and compression. This enables enterprises to consolidate data and resources within fewer data centers without upgrading WAN capacity in those locations. In addition, it enables large transfers to take place over the existing network infrastructure, which is vital for data migration.
- Optimize application performance - Local information delivery, coupled with latency mitigation techniques, ensure that all centralized 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 Internet VPNs and MPLS. By mitigating WAN latency and loss, Silver Peak overcomes the single biggest challenge to data center consolidation - poor application performance for remote users.
- Manage shared resources- When resources are consolidated within data centers, congestion becomes a very tangible problem. Silver Peak provides robust QoS tools that ensure critical applications are not starved and that real-time traffic is prioritized for optimal performance.
With Silver Peak, enterprises can put data centers where they make the most business sense without worrying about the impact that WAN performance has on remote user productivity. In addition, data centers become operational quicker, and operate more cost effectively.
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