Silver Peak Systems has introduced the first point-and-click solution for accelerating individual workloads directly from VMware vCentre and other virtual infrastructure management consoles. This is part of Silver Peak’s new 'Agility' technology initiative that focuses on improving the application owner’s experience through software-defined virtual workload acceleration. Silver Peak Agility is putting unprecedented control in the hands of virtualisation experts, enabling them to maximise the performance of individual workloads in a fast, easy and highly-efficient manner.
 

When enterprises extend workloads beyond a single data centre they must contend with the adverse effects of latency, congestion, and limited network capacity—all of which can significantly impair application performance over distance. Silver Peak Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) software solves these challenges. With Agility, VXOA is deployed and managed from within the virtualisation domain, using common management platforms like VMware vCentre. As a result, little or no networking expertise is required, making it easier than ever before to accelerate any application or workload in a virtual environment. This saves companies time and money by allowing virtual administrators to easily provision, manage, and control the acceleration of individual workloads from the same interface they are already comfortable using on a daily basis.

“Applications and data can shift from server to server, data centre to data centre, and private cloud to public cloud [in today’s virtual enterprise], and application developers and hypervisor administrators procure most of the virtualised firewalls, WAN optimisation controllers, and application delivery controllers for their infrastructures,” said Andre Kindness, senior infrastructure and operations analyst for Forrester Research Inc, in the July 2012 report entitled 'Networking Predictions for 2013'.

Silver Peak Agility is beneficial for accelerating managed service provider (MSP) and cloud deployments. In both these scenarios, customers typically do not have access to the physical network devices owned by the service provider. Silver Peak Agility takes away the network-based deployment and configuration requirements, simplifies management, and allows the cloud or MSP manager to easily scale from a few applications to thousands of applications from the virtualisation infrastructure management console.

“Virtualisation enables WAN optimisation technology to be consumed by users beyond the traditional networking audience and without disruption of the network,” said David Hughes, founder and CTO of Silver Peak. “Our software-defined approach to acceleration allows any networking, storage, server, and compute administrator to quickly and easily accelerate any application over distance using the tools with which they are the most comfortable.”
 

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