CMP WAN Optimization Briefing Center

Welcome to the WAN Optimization Briefing Center

Organizations are increasingly centralizing their servers and storage from branch offices, which puts an end to the server sprawl that leads to costly security, management, deployment and operations issues. Companies are also under intense pressure to ensure that their network backups complete on time so they can meet their disaster recovery requirements. But delivering acceptable application performance over the WAN can be quite challenging. At this Briefing Center, IT managers will learn strategies and tactics for scalable WAN acceleration so they can deliver more applications and more throughput over their existing WAN infrastructures.

Strategy Guide to Improving Disaster Recovery with WAN Acceleration
Jumpstart your WAN acceleration project with these six articles and technical resources from Network Computing and IT Architect. Learn how backup and replication requirements are driving organizations to optimize their WANs and get tips for WAN optimization solutions that will juice up your application performance to branch offices. Download the WAN Acceleration Playbook >

		Top 10 Considerations for Scaling WAN Acceleration Deployments Many factors affect the scalability of WAN acceleration appliances, from hardware architecture to ease of use. This paper identifies the top 10 factors, and provides guidelines for overcoming scalability challenges in real-world enterprise environments. Download the whitepaper >

		Technology Primer: WAN Acceleration Techniques Download this great vendor-neutral report from www.application-delivery.org that explains the commonly used WAN acceleration techniques, including data reduction, compression, CIFS acceleration, WAFS, and more. The report includes vendor comparisons for Silver Peak and others. Get the primer >

		Best Practices for Ensuring Data Security for WAN Acceleration Deployments Did you know that most WAN acceleration appliances leave organizations’ critical information un-encrypted? Learn more about best practices for ensuring security and data privacy when considering WAN acceleration appliances, and how Silver Peak's Secure Content Architecture ensures end-to-end data privacy. Get the best practices >

		Buyer's Guide: WAN Acceleration Solutions Jim Metzler, leading analyst and Network World contributor, has written a buyer's guide for WAN acceleration products. He discusses a variety of product selection criteria, covering performance, QoS, scale, application transparency, and security. Download the buyer's guide >

		Risk Management Firm Solves Disaster Recovery Challenge with WAN Acceleration In this interview, Mitch Nabors of Quality Built explains how Silver Peak WAN Acceleration appliances helped solve his disaster recovery challenge. Mitch also provides a deep dive on his resulting ROI analysis. Read the case study >

		Synplicity: Synthesizing LAN-Like Performance Across a Global WAN Lam Hoag, IT Director, discusses how Silver Peak's NX Series appliances enabled Synplicity to effectively offshore software development to India. Read the case study >

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Webcast: Demystifying WAN Acceleration
Join Robert Whiteley of Forrester to understand what's driving enterprise to deploy WAN acceleration. Drill into the different types of WAN acceleration technologies and techniques. Finally, discover the expected results of WAN acceleration. View the webcast now >

		8 Common WAN Acceleration Challenges and How to Avoid Them This brief from www.application-delivery.org covers 8 of the most common challenges encountered when companies roll out WAN acceleration, and provides proactive guidance on how to avoid them. Download the brief >

		The Growing Chasm Between Disaster Recovery and the WAN Research conducted by The Strategy Group uncovered that less than 40% of companies are achieving their objectives for network backup and data center replication. This brief summarizes the impact that the growing amount of data and rapid rise in data centralization will have on disaster recovery, and shows how WAN acceleration can address the challenge. Get research brief >

		The Impact of Data Center Consolidation on Branch Office Performance IDG conducted a survey of 350 IT managers to better understand the impact of server consolidation on the performance of remote applications in the branch office. The report also identifies the steps enterprises have taken and the steps they plan to take in the upcoming 18 months. This $200 report is available compliments of Silver Peak Systems. Get the IDG report for free >

Silver Peak Systems is a leading provider of scalable WAN Acceleration appliances for the security conscious enterprise. By delivering orders of magnitude improvement in performance for all application types (including VoIP and video) across the WAN, Silver Peak’s NX Series are the industry’s only appliances to deliver near LAN-like performance for virtually any distributed applications.

Silver Peak’s unique Secure Content Architecture ensures end to end privacy of all sensitive information, without compromising performance. Silver Peak’s data center appliances transparently speed data replication up to 40x at WAN capacities up to 500 Mbps, which enable near real-time backup and restore operations over the WAN for even the largest data centers.

Technical resources are available on the Silver Peak Info Center at: www.silver-peak.com/infocenter.

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