December 30, 2010 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data center class Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, announced that it has been positioned in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Gartner 2010 “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers.” (Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, Severine Real, Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa, December 23, 2010.
“2010 has been a year of upward momentum
across the board for Silver Peak,” said Larry Cormier, senior vice president of marketing for Silver Peak. “Revenues, customers, channel partners, technology breakthroughs, new product introductions, and global expansion - all evidence of our ability to deliver in a rapidly changing market segment. We believe our placement in the Visionary quadrant reflects that momentum as well as affirms our vision for scalable, high capacity WAN optimization for data centers, global networks, and emerging private cloud computing.”
Silver Peak’s position in the Magic Quadrant closes out a banner year that included being named to the Wall Street Journal's list of top 50 venture backed companies, broad international expansion, and continued data center partnerships with Avaya, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HP, NetApp, and Xiotech. Leading customers from around the globe have deployed Silver Peak’s award-winning NX and VX appliances, and the recently released VRX data center class virtual appliances, which scale from Mbps to Gbps of WAN capacity. The products are designed to optimize all IP traffic regardless of transport protocol and application version.
According to the report, “WAN optimization is about improving the performance of business applications over WAN connections. Most networks carry a variety of traffic types of differing characteristics and importance. Many organizations are striving to manage this traffic to optimize the response times of critical applications and reduce costs, given that bandwidth continues to represent a significant proportion of operating expenditure for wide-area data networks. But the cost of bandwidth isn't the only consideration - matching the allocation of WAN resources to business needs is also important. And as resources are increasingly centralized, minimizing the effect of latency on application response times is becoming a critical requirement. In addition, virtualization and new application environments such as cloud computing and Web services can put an unexpected strain on the network.”
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Silver Peak develops data center class network appliances that maximize WAN performance while minimizing WAN costs. The company’s unique network approach to WAN optimization delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling enterprises to rapidly move large amounts of data across long distances. Silver Peak’s WAN optimization solution is a strategic enabler for large IT initiatives, including data center consolidation, data migration, disaster recovery, server centralization, and global application / desktop virtualization.
