Several Companies Deploy Silver Peak With EqualLogic

Silver
Peak Systems, Inc., the specialist in accelerating data over distance, announced
that more customers throughout North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific are
deploying Silver Peak virtual products with Dell EqualLogic storage solutions
to accelerate offsite replication workloads.

By replicating data faster over existing networks, customers can exceed RPO while minimizing infrastructure costs.

In North America, companies like Deere
Credit Union, Dickinson Wright, Focus Technologies, Hawkins, National Seating and
Sun East Federal Credit Union rely on Silver Peak with Dell EqualLogic to
accelerate replication processes over distance. In EMEA, companies like Aramex
and ZLTO have reduced the amount of time it takes to move large volumes of data
over constrained networks. In AsiaPac, companies like Deswik Mining
achieve RPOs over longer distances using less bandwidth.

"The
WAN link between our two locations did not provide enough capacity to support
rapid synchronization of all our volumes," said Bart Haans, ICT
manager for ZLTO, an association that handles national relations for over
18,000 farmers across the Netherlands. "We were able to quickly install Silver Peak and simply redirect the
traffic between our EqualLogic arrays through the Silver Peak virtual
appliances. No changes to the network were required, and we were up-and-running
accelerating traffic in just a few hours."

EqualLogic Auto-Replication can
periodically replicate data from primary sites to designated DR sites with
Silver Peak VXOA software optimizing the data movement and providing granular
visibility and control over the traffic. This helps ensure BC in the event of
an outage.

In lab testing, Silver Peak demonstrated
performance gains of up to 15x for replication throughput, while real-world
deployments have realized up to 20x with up to 90% WAN bandwidth reduction.

"Through
a combination of real-time optimization techniques, Silver Peak enabled us to
reduce our replication times from 24 hours to 8 hours over our existing WAN
infrastructure," said Tom Robertson, CTO at Charter Bank. "Silver Peak’s appliances have become
critical to our DR processes, enabling us to replicate all of our data to a
secure offsite location in a fast, reliable, and cost effective manner."

"As
a Dell global preferred partner, we are excited to see more customers reaping
the benefits of a Silver Peak-accelerated Dell EqualLogic deployment,"
said Marc Trimuschat, VP of alliances and the Dell relationship for Silver
Peak. "Our software-based solutions
enable quick and easy deployment of WAN acceleration from anywhere in the
world, and with our free self-service trials directly from our website, anyone
can start optimizing their DR deployments immediately."

Pricing starts at $7,995 for two Silver Peak VMs. Silver Peak VXOA allows
anyone to choose from a broad portfolio of virtual WAN
optimization appliances running on a of hypervisors, including
VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen, Hyper-V, and KVM.

For EqualLogic customers to obtain a free
90-day trial of Silver Peak WAN optimization