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VSPEX Enabled WAN Acceleration

Next up at EMC World we caught up with Tony Thompson and Everett Dolgner from Silver Peak. Our readers will be familiar with the fact that Silver Peak has been on the leading edge of providing software-defined WAN acceleration technology

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Virtualized WAN Acceleration For Hybrid Clouds

The wide area network (WAN) as we know it today is evolving. Over the past decade, many organizations have deployed hardware appliances to help speed up the WAN links between data center sites, as well as between primary data centers

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Slideshare – Ready For Software Defined WAN Acceleration For Virtual Environments?

Learn how software defined WAN Acceleration can fulfill the promise of a cloud powered data center WAN Acceleration technologies have typically been deployed as appliances, however, the realities of virtualized infrastructure is demanding a more flexible approach to align with

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Virtualized Cloud Acceleration

During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, we discussed the need for organizations to consider software based approaches to accelerating WAN performance. Interestingly, our polling question revealed that 31% of the webinar participants were trying to determine why there is even

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How Backup Disk Architecture Impacts the Backup Window

Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in

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Software Defined Peak WAN Performance

As a long time player in the market, Silver Peak is making it a lot easier, both financially and politically, for storage and virtual administrators to accelerate data replication performance. In the past, storage administrators used to have to get

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The New Normal: Software-Defined WAN Acceleration for a Cloud-Centric World

Wide area network (WAN) acceleration technology has been successfully used by many organizations for over a decade to accelerate data traffic between data centers and branch offices. Typically deployed as an appliance, WAN accelerators help to ensure the timely transmission

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Webinar: Are You Ready For Software Defined WAN Acceleration?

WAN Acceleration technologies have typically been deployed as appliances, however, the realities of virtualized infrastructure is demanding a more flexible approach to align with the needs of the software defined data center. WAN acceleration and optimization is more critical than

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Backing Up Distributed Data

The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that

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Dell Brings Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery To The SMB Market

Dell today announced its first entrance into the disk backup target appliance market in the form of the new Dell DR4000. Targeted directly at the medium-size business, the DR4000 comes with built-in deduplication, compression and replication as part of a

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