(Source: Datamonitor)
Silver Peak Systems has announced the integration of its data center class WAN optimization solutions with the new EMC VPLEX Geo storage federation technology, extending performance for private clouds across geographically distributed data centers.
Working in collaboration with EMC, the Silver Peak WAN optimization solution is optimized and integrated with VPLEX Geo to enable the VPLEX features for application mobility, high-availability, and collaboration over lower capacity networks.
EMC VPLEX Geo allows users to access a single copy of data from any global location, resulting in geographically distributed virtual and physical hosts across the network. Silver Peak helps customers overcome WAN challenges by conditioning the network for optimal data throughput and allowing for the use of lower-capacity WANs or shared WANs.
Silver Peak physical and virtual WAN optimization appliances are easily deployed between VPLEX Geo clusters on both ends of the WAN. Network Memory capabilities reduce the amount of bandwidth required for VPLEX Geo and associated application traffic by up to 20x. Working collaboratively with EMC, Silver Peak enables real-time de-duplication of VPLEX Geo traffic across the WAN.
Network Integrity enables customers to use shared WANs. Silver Peak network integrity provides real-time optimization to 'clean up' the WAN for effective throughput and allows for shared MPLS or IP VPN WAN connections to be used. Advanced quality-of-service techniques also prioritize VPLEX Geo traffic.
Network Acceleration complements the VPLEX Geo capabilities for WAN latency mitigation to accelerate virtual machine migration. When combined, VPLEX Geo and Silver Peak enable enterprises to safely maintain Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives across distance.
Network Visibility and Monitoring provides management, monitoring, and alerting in VPLEX environments. Silver Peak Global Management System and Silver Peak dashboards can collect and display network conditions and associated VPLEX traffic across the WAN, enabling customers to diagnose and resolve any VPLEX or application-layer throughput issues as a result of WAN conditions.
"VPLEX Geo removes the barriers for distributing and dynamically sharing information between data centers," said Brian Gallagher, president of the enterprise storage division at EMC Corporation.
"By integrating with Silver Peak's data center class WAN optimization, customers can further reduce their WAN bandwidth requirements, accelerate the mobility of applications, and reduce WAN costs to take full advantage of virtual storage across any distance. This smart and dynamic integration allows IT organizations to truly virtualize their distributed storage environments and make information mobile, highly available, and collaborative at any geographical location."
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