Ecology and Environment Inc. Selects Silver Peak for WAN Optimization

NX Appliances Avoid Bandwidth Upgrade, Improve Remote Access to Centralized File Servers

Santa Clara, Calif., January 12, 2010 Silver Peak Systems , the leader in data center class Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, today announced that Ecology and Environment Inc, a leading environmental consulting firm, has selected Silver Peak’s NX appliances to optimize the company’s WAN.  With Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solution, Ecology & Environment has lowered IT costs by avoiding WAN bandwidth upgrades and improved remote employee productivity through faster access to centralized application servers. 

“Our consulting services require a collaborative effort amongst many distributed employees,” said Edward K. Miller, Dir. of System Services at Ecology and Environment Inc.  “With Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solution, we can exchange information quickly and cost effectively using our existing network infrastructure.  This lowers IT costs and minimizes employee travel requirements, making Silver Peak a ‘win win’ solution for both our company and the environment.”

About Ecology and Environment Inc.
Headquartered in Lancaster, N.Y., Ecology and Environment, Inc. has completed more than 45,000 projects for a wide variety of clients in 84 countries, providing environmental solutions in nearly every ecosystem on our planet. The company is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol EEI and is located on the web at www.ene.com .

About Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Silver Peak develops data center class network appliances that maximize WAN performance while minimizing WAN costs.  The company’s unique network approach to WAN optimization delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling enterprises to rapidly move large amounts of data across long distances.  Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solution is a strategic enabler for large IT initiatives, including data center consolidation, data migration, disaster recovery, server centralization, and global application / desktop virtualization.

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