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With the adoption of hybrid cloud and data center consolidation, applications that were created for the LAN are now being accessed in remote branch offices over the WAN, where high latency, poor network quality, and limited bandwidth can adversely impact end-user experiences. These remote offices can benefit from WAN optimization, but they often do not have the IT staff, rack space, or power/cooling capacity to support this technology.

Silver Peak Systems, Inc. has partnered with HP Networking to overcome these challenges. By integrating Silver Peak’s virtual WAN optimization with HP zl Switch Series, enterprises receive all of the benefits of WAN optimization without the need of a standalone device. The result maximizes application performance with minimal deployment costs, resulting in higher end-user productivity and improved IT operations.

By leveraging HP virtualization support in the 5400zl and 8200zl switches, Silver Peak’s virtual WAN optimization devices can be easily integrated into any HP environment. This enables WAN optimization to be cost-effectively deployed throughout an enterprise across the WAN, ensuring fast and reliable access to centralized applications.

Supporting up to 50 Mbps WAN connections and optimizing up to 64,000 simultaneous connections, the combination of Silver Peak VX-series appliances and HP zl Switch Series scale to accommodate WAN requirements for very large branches. By optimizing all IP traffic, regardless of transport protocol or application version, the integrated solution delivers the best ROI for WAN optimization.

The challenge

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Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) addresses these challenges with a hardware-independent approach that enables WAN optimization to be easily deployed on any platform with the same performance and scalability like dedicated physical appliances.

Silver Peak‘s VXOA uses real-time network optimization techniques to addresses the bandwidth, latency, and packet loss issues that are common in many enterprise environments. Click on each of the techniques below to know more about them:

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Silver Peak is the leader in data center class WAN optimization appliances that maximize WAN performance while minimizing WAN costs. Silver Peak’s VXOA delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling rapid deployment of WAN optimization on any platform, any hypervisor, or anywhere within an enterprise. Silver Peak is the only WAN optimization solution to scale from Mbps to multi-Gbps in a single device, with support for all IP traffic regardless of transport protocol or application version. This makes Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solutions a strategic enabler for large IT initiatives, including data center consolidation, data migration, cloud computing, disaster recovery, server centralization, and hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

As a leader in driving and implementing open standards-based solutions for more than 20 years, HP Networking offers you choice and flexibility, while also delivering reliable solutions using advanced technology. As part of the overall HP Converged Infrastructure—where servers, storage, management software, networking,

power and cooling, security and services all work together in a defined architecture that enables real-time alignment between IT and business objectives—the HP FlexNetwork architecture delivers module building blocks from data center to campus all managed by a single management platform. The FlexNetwork architecture is open, scalable, secure, agile, and delivers consistent experience across the entire network reducing complexity and optimizing infrastructure.

Working together as a collaborative team, HP Networking and Silver Peak deliver easily deployed WAN optimization solutions for a range of enterprises. The HP and Silver Peak solution enables you to implement a standards-based network that can readily adapt to the changing needs of your users, applications, and businesses. Together we deliver validated, open architecture solutions that have been thoroughly tested and certified for interoperability in an HP Converged Infrastructure environment—able to handle any WAN workload. And as your business grows, an HP Converged Infrastructure will accelerate your move to an Instant-On Enterprise—enabling you to shorten the time needed to provision infrastructure for new and existing enterprise services to drive competitive and service advantage.

Why HP Networking and Silver Peak

How the solution works

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•Significantly improve performance of branch applications over the WAN, like email, storage, VDI, VOIP, and video

•Lower enterprise telco costs by enabling cost-effective shared networks like MPLS, IP/VPN, and cloud, which can perform like dedicated private lines

•Increase WAN capacity by 20x* or more•Combine WAN optimization and branch networking functions in

one easy-to-manage device, reducing management costs, capital expenditures, and environmental costs

Like most businesses today, your organization probably seeks new ways to improve competitive advantage and control costs. You want new solutions that can support business growth, while also addressing cost containment and network complexity, which is easier said than done.

To get all the functionality you need, most available solutions force you to integrate multiple applications through open standards, or limit you with a sub-optimal end-to-end solution from a single vendor.

Instead, you can choose a third option: HP AllianceONE. Comprised of thousands of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), Original Equipment Vendors (OEM), System Integrators (SIs), and Service Providers (SPs)—HP AllianceONE offers an extensive selection of market-leading, standards-based applications that integrate cleanly with your existing network. Designed to support the HP Converged Infrastructure, each solution is pretested and prequalified, so you can deploy your HP AllianceONE solution with confidence. In case of an unforeseen problem, the HP AllianceONE support team, along with HP Partners, can help you find and resolve the problem.

* For more information, visit http://www.silver-peak.com/news/01032012_The_Greenery_Grows_WANop.htm.

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Your next stepTo find a Silver Peak representative near you, visit www.silver-peak.com/Contact/contact.asp or email info@silver-peak.com.

To learn more about how Silver Peak is partnered with HP Networking to optimize network performance while lowering IT costs, visit www.silver-peak.com or www.hp.com/go/AllianceONE.

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