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This customer profile is about Perkins Coie LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington, who deployed a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) to accelerate branch office connectivity and address replication challenges between its Seattle and Chicago, Illinois data centers.  Perkins Coie had used another vendor's WAN optimization hardware, but it could not optimize all of the concurrent sessions (simultaneous sessions) established between the applications in the remote offices and the servers in the data center. Concurrent sessions are particularly a problem for cloud applications that use pipelining to improve application performance.  Perkins Coie chose Silver Peak in part because of its ability to optimize many concurrent sessions, but also because of its ease of use and performance. In head-to-head testing, Silver Peak software outperformed Riverbed hardware and deployed in a fraction of the time. With Silver Peak, Perkins Coie meets its recovery point objectives (RPOs) and attorneys in remote offices need less time to check documents out of the organization's enterprise document management system. 

This customer story profiles Produce World, a major produce grower and supplier based in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe. Produce World relied on NetApp SnapMirror to protect its data, but found it impossible to meet its recovery point objectives (RPOs) and move data to its disaster recovery (DR) location hosted in a private cloud provider’s premises. Instead of meeting a 15 minute RPO for its Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resources planning (ERP) software and two hours for other critical systems, Produce World found data replication to be taking 24 hours and more. With Silver Peak, Produce World not only increased data throughput and reduced bandwidth consumption, but also dramatically improved its ability to adapt to changes in the cloud.

This customer profile describes how the Vancouver School Board deployed Silver Peak WAN optimization appliances across 120 locations in Vancouver, Canada. Like many educational institutions, the Vancouver School Board runs a network that carries a diverse mix of traffic. British Columbia Enterprise Student Information System (BCESiS), online exams, educational videos and instruction, and more all require timely access to the Internet and to the cloud.