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Silver Peak Delivers VXOA 6.0 — Raising the Bar on Performance, Ease-of-Use, and Flexible Deployment Options for Accelerating Data over Distance
Dec. 3, 2012 08:10 AM
Silver
Peak Systems, the leader in accelerating data
over distance, today announced the availability of its Virtual
Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) release 6.0. The new software
release delivers record
performance improvements to all Silver Peak physical and virtual
products, and includes new features that enable virtualization,
storage
and networking
professionals to accelerate their business-critical workloads quickly
and easily over the wide area network (WAN).
Record Virtual Performance and Usability for Network
Administrators
Silver Peak VXOA helps network administrators improve application
performance over the WAN by solving common capacity, distance and
quality issues. With release 6.0, Silver Peak extends its lead over the
competition by offering the highest-performing (>10 Gbps) and most
cost-effective WAN acceleration software. Silver Peak VXOA 6.0 now
includes:
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Expanded Hypervisor Performance—With VXOA 6.0, Silver Peak
extends its virtual performance leadership with multi-gigabit WAN
acceleration on all common hypervisors, including VMware vSphere,
Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM. All of Silver Peak’s virtual products are
available for free self-service trials from Silver Peak’s virtual marketplace.
Enhanced Replication Acceleration for Storage
Administrators
Silver Peak’s VXOA software makes replication over distance easy and
affordable, enabling storage administrators to meet stringent recovery
point objectives (RPO). Silver Peak VXOA 6.0 augments this with the
following new enhancements:
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Jumbo Frame Acceleration—Jumbo frames (e.g. frames up to 9,000
bytes) are commonly used for high-performance data replication,
packing more data into a single package to reduce network overhead and
compute cycles. Silver Peak is the first WAN acceleration solution to
support jumbo frames over standard 1,500-byte WANs, enabling
replication solutions to achieve 50% higher throughput.
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20x Faster Replication in 20 Minutes—With Silver Peak’s Velocity
solution, NetApp SnapMirror, Dell Compellent, and Dell EqualLogic
customers can leverage VXOA to achieve 20x faster average offsite
replication. Silver Peak VXOA can be deployed in under 20 minutes with
no networking expertise required using Silver Peak’s unique
storage-based forwarding model. Silver Peak will extend these
capabilities to cover additional replication solutions from EMC,
Hitachi Data Systems and others in the coming months.
Simplified Deployment Options for Virtualization
Administrators
Silver Peak VXOA brings workload acceleration to virtualization
professionals by using simplified deployment models and advanced
software-defined acceleration (SDA) techniques. Silver Peak VXOA 6.0
delivers the following new enhancements:
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Agility Plug-In for Citrix XenCenter—Silver Peak delivers the
first point-and-click solution for accelerating virtual workloads
directly from Citrix XenCenter. This puts unprecedented control in the
hands of virtualization administrators managing Citrix XenServer
environments, enabling them to maximize the performance of individual
workloads in an easy and highly-efficient manner. (In August 2012,
Silver Peak demonstrated the first plug-in for VMware vCenter).
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Amazon Web Services Marketplace—Silver Peak is simplifying the
acceleration of data and applications provisioned to the Amazon Web
Services public cloud. With Silver Peak VXOA 6.0, application
administrators can quickly and easily deploy a Silver Peak virtual
machine within the Amazon cloud, complementing an existing Silver Peak
data center or branch office deployment.
Web GMS Delivers Visibility into Application Performance from any
Device
Silver Peak has re-architected its Global Management System (GMS) based
on HTML5. This delivers intuitive, drag-and-drop WAN visibility from
nearly any device, including Apple iPads, iPhones, Android phones and
tablets, and Windows 8 systems. Silver Peak Web GMS is a single,
centralized source for monitoring a Silver Peak-enabled WAN. This
includes easy-to-use dashboards that can automatically resize and
re-order to fit any size screen. Silver Peak Web GMS provides essential
real-time information, such as bandwidth utilization, network quality,
device status, and over a hundred other data points.
Availability
Silver Peak VXOA 6.0 is available today from Silver Peak and its global
network of channel partners. Existing customers with a current support
contract can upgrade to the current version the Silver Peak VXOA
software. All of Silver Peak’s software products are available for free
self-service trials at www.silver-peak.com/marketplace.
Additional Resources
About Silver Peak Systems
Silver Peak software accelerates data between data centers, branch
offices and the cloud. The company’s software-defined acceleration
solves network quality, capacity and distance challenges to provide fast
and reliable access to data anywhere in the world. Leveraging its
leadership in data center class wide area network (WAN) optimization,
Silver Peak is a key enabler for strategic IT projects like
virtualization, big data and disaster recovery. Download Silver Peak
software today at silver-peak.com/marketplace.
Note: Silver Peak Systems, the Silver Peak logo, and Silver Peak VXOA
are all trademarks of Silver Peak Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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