Are you struggling with how to deliver applications to distributed locations or hot to protect data across the WAN? Do you want a way to centralize branch office infrastructure, but are limited by the performance of your WAN? Have you tried compression and/or Quality of Service (QoS) techniques, but still are not getting the results you desire? Are you disappointed with acceleration products that only work on a specific application, and require significant investment in time and resources to deploy and keep current?
Silver Peak has the answer. By using the latest in WAN acceleration technology, the Silver Peak solution provides the following tangible business benefits:
Improve application performance. Applications are no longer subject to the bandwidth and latency issues inherent to WANs.
Increase employee productivity. Better application response time makes end users more productive.
Reduce server hardware costs. Branch office servers and storage can be eliminated as infrastructure is centralized within a data center. In addition, enterprises do not have to pay additional facility and environmental costs to house servers at remote facilities.
Minimize software licensing costs. Reducing the amount of application servers can minimize licensing costs in some application pricing models.
Decrease WAN expenditures. When information is localized, less traffic traverses the WAN. This maximizes bandwidth utilization, which minimizes WAN costs.
Lower IT support costs. Server centralization minimizes the need for onsite technical support staff in remote offices, and reduces travel costs to these facilities.
Maximize security and data protection. Enterprise data is best protected when servers are placed in a data center with proper security precautions and environmental protections.
Facilitate compliance. IT staff can better audit servers to ensure that they are properly configured in a centralized environment.
Improve disaster recovery. It is easier to enforce server backups and ensure proper data storage and retrieval when branch office infrastructure is centrally controlled and managed.
The Silver Peak solution was designed from the ground up to support a wide variety of business-critical applications in a secure, scalable, and reliable manner. Specific technology features of the Silver Peak solution, and the associated enterprise benefits that they provide, include:
Benefits
Technology Features
Enterprise Scalability, from remote offices to large data centers
• Network Memory™ stores only a single local instance of information per location
• Not limited by TCP flows
• NX Series appliances range from 250 GB to 8 TB of local store
• NX Series appliances support 2Mbps to 1 Gbps of WAN bandwidth capacity
• 64-bit hardware architecture
LAN-Like Performance, for optimal application delivery across a distributed enterprise
• Information delivered locally when possible
• Only deltas traverse the WAN when delivering “similar” data
• Advanced payload and header compression
• Latency/loss mitigation, including TCP acceleration, and adaptive FEC
• Quality of Service
Complete Application Transparency
• No modification required to clients, servers, or network infrastructure
• Byte-level visibility works across all applications
Secure Data Protection, in the box and across the WAN
• Wirespeed encryption of disk drives using 128-bit AES
• IPsec tunneling between NX Series Appliances
Network Resiliency, providing maximum application performance with maximum up-time
• NX series appliances feature RAID with redundant power supplies
• Fail-to-wire
• Redundant deployment options
Manageability, for rapid deployment and cost effective operations
• Easy-to-use setup wizard
• Intuitive UI for configuration, monitoring, management, and reporting
