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Silver Peak and EMC accelerate private clouds with integrated WAN optimisation and virtual storage
EMC VPLEX Geo and Silver Peak data centre class WAN optimisation integration can provide up to 20x improvement in WAN capacity while reducing WAN costs by up to 10x
Silver Peak Systems today announced integration of its data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation solutions with the new EMC VPLEX Geo storage federation technology, extending performance and cost savings for private clouds across geographically distributed data centres. Working in close collaboration with EMC, the Silver Peak WAN optimisation solution is qualified, optimised, and tightly-integrated with VPLEX Geo to enable the VPLEX features for application mobility, high-availability, and collaboration over lower capacity, less-expensive networks.
“The integrity and performance of the WAN is essential to storing and accessing data across geographically distributed data centres,” said Joe Skorupa, research vice president, data centre transformation and security, Gartner. “In these environments, highly-scalable WAN optimisation with strong application support is required to ensure LAN-like performance over distance.”
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, lower-cost WANs or shared WANs, instead of more expensive larger or dedicated WANs. The EMC and Silver Peak integration can enable EMC VPLEX Geo customers to reduce WAN bandwidth requirements by up to 20x, reduce WAN costs by up to 10x, and deploy more applications over existing WAN infrastructures.
“VPLEX Geo removes the barriers for distributing and dynamically sharing information between data centres,” said Brian Gallagher, president of the enterprise storage division at EMC Corporation. “By integrating with Silver Peak’s data centre class WAN optimisation, 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 organisations to truly virtualise their distributed storage environments and make information mobile, highly available, and collaborative at any geographical location.”
Data Centre Class WAN Optimisation Advantage
Silver Peak physical and virtual WAN optimisation appliances are easily deployed between VPLEX Geo clusters on both ends of the WAN. Silver Peak appliances improve WAN quality, reduce latency, and make it possible to deploy distributed virtual storage without adding additional bandwidth.
* 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. This significantly increases the amount of bandwidth available, allowing customers to use substantially smaller WAN connections for VPLEX Geo deployments
* Network Integrity enables customers to use lower-cost, shared WANs versus more expensive dedicated WANs, which can be up to 10x more expensive. Even a small amount of packet loss on a WAN can greatly reduce throughput of storage applications. Silver Peak network integrity provides real-time optimisation to ‘clean up’ the WAN for higher effective throughput and allows for shared MPLS or IP VPN WAN connections to be used, reducing infrastructure costs without sacrificing quality. Advanced quality-of-service (QoS) techniques also prioritise VPLEX Geo traffic and guarantee that bandwidth requirements are met
* 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 (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) across distance
* Network Visibility and Monitoring provides simplified management, monitoring, and alerting in VPLEX environments. Silver Peak Global Management System (GMS) and Silver Peak dashboards can collect and display network conditions and associated VPLEX traffic across the WAN, enabling customers to quickly diagnose and resolve any VPLEX or application-layer throughput issues as a result of WAN conditions
“EMC VPLEX Geo with Silver Peak is the perfect combination of leading enterprise storage and leading data centre class WAN optimisation,” said Marc Trimuschat, vice president of business development and alliances for Silver Peak. “Our continued integration with EMC is helping more customers future-proof their networks, and is allowing customers to lower WAN costs and get more from WAN investments as they look to accelerate the mobility of applications and speed global collaboration.”
- Posted on: 12th May 2011 at 12:00am
- Topics: Consolidation; Convergence;
