Microsoft SharePoint

Maximize your investment in Microsoft SharePoint. Replicate databases faster and check-out files quicker from remote locations. Silver Peak addresses the wide area network (WAN) challenges that undermine distributed SharePoint implementations, reducing SharePoint replication times and improving the SharePoint browsing experience for users in distributed locations. With Silver Peak, IT can deliver a faster, more consistent SharePoint experience to any remote location. 

Microsoft SharePoint is a popular tool for collecting and sharing information within the enterprise. While SharePoint may perform well within the office, application performance often degrades across wide area networks (WANs). Files may take longer to check in and out of a SharePoint library. Administrators may find they’re unable to replicate SharePoint database over distances, limiting how they can architect a SharePoint deployment.

Adding more bandwidth will not solve the problem. The TCP stack underlying SharePoint degrades as delay increases regardless of bandwidth. Even when distances is nominal delay may be a factor due to network congestion, and provider peering practices and routing policies. 

Silver Peak solves those problems,  dramatically improving  Microsoft SharePoint performance over distance. Customers report that Silver Peak accelerates file transfers by more than 88 percent and can reduce bandwidth consumption by 20X. All results were gathered without special plugins or customization. Specific challenges addressed by Silver Peak include:

• Bandwidth – Silver Peak byte-level deduplication dramatically shortens large SharePoint file and data  transfers by removing the redundant data from the WAN. The first time SharePoint sends data it is fingerprinted and compressed by Silver Peak. Subsequent requests are fulfilled by the local Silver Peak instance. 
• Latency – Silver Peak mitigates latency enabling SharePoint to operate more efficiently over distance, improving the user experience. TCP Acceleration includes windows scaling, selective acknowledgements, and HighSpeed TCP. CIFS Acceleration includes CIFS read-ahead, CIFS write-behind, and CIFS metadata optimizations. Latency is also reduced through packet coalescing, which re-packages multiple smaller packets into a single larger one, and through Dynamic Path Control, which selects the fastest path to a remote location. 
• Congestion – Silver Peak makes SharePoint performance more predictable across congested WANs. Lost or out-of-order packets are recovered and resequenced in real time, avoiding retransmission delays. Traffic shaping and Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms ensure all applications receive the necessary bandwidth.  

Silver Peak protects SharePoint data in-flight between locations with an Accelerated IPSec virtual private network (VPN) between locations, securing all data with AES-256, the enterprise standard for data encryption. Data-at-rest in each Silver Peak instance is also encrypted with AES. Silver Peak supports SSL/TLS for end-to-end encryption.  

Silver Peak offers the most scalable and cost-effective data acceleration software for connecting data centers, remote offices and the cloud. You can download, deploy Silver Peak software as a free trial or contact us to see how Silver Peak can help your organization.