Silver Peak integrates with VMware Network Virtualisation

The rapid adoption of server virtualisation and hybrid cloud infrastructure has resulted in a completely new operational model for deploying and managing application workloads in today’s software defined data centres. The network has historically been a barrier to achieving the full benefits of virtualisation and workload mobility because of complex physical network topology, manual configuration of network equipment, and a reliance on vendor-specific expertise. Silver Peak Agility combined with VMware NSX can help overcome these challenges by enabling rapid, on-demand deployment of network services in virtualised data centres. Silver Peak redirects and optimises traffic between VMs without the need for complex router configurations and networking expertise. This allows virtualisation administrators to quickly and easily optimise the performance of individual workloads between data centres, remote offices and the cloud with increased simplicity.

“Networking technology can be complex to implement through the eyes of non-networking IT personnel, but as the network transforms from a hardware model to a software delivery model, it becomes essential for non-networking professionals to enable and manage network services at-will,” said David Hughes, CEO of Silver Peak. “Our core competencies in WAN optimisation and virtualisation have Silver Peak uniquely-positioned to help customers automate and optimise the deployment of virtualised network services across their software defined data centres.”

“VMware NSX will set the standard for network virtualisation, decoupling networking functions from the underlying physical infrastructure and automating network services to dramatically simplify IT service delivery,” said Hatem Naguib, vice president, cloud networking and security, VMware. “By combining VMware NSX with Silver Peak, customers will be able to move data at accelerated rates between VMs in separate virtualised data centres.”

Virtualised Wide Area Network (WAN) optimisation software has already proven to be a critical requirement for moving more data over longer distances, and in less time. The software-based approach is a fast and cost-effective way to overcome bandwidth, distance and quality challenges that hinder data mobility performance for disaster recovery and access to localised resources across multiple data centres, including cloud and MSP environments. Silver Peak Agility combined with VMware NSX will enable a smooth transition to network virtualisation while maximising current investments, maintaining service levels, and assuring application performance over distance. Silver Peak’s support for networking and security within the VMware vCloud Suite also helps cloud managers easily scale from a few applications to thousands of optimised applications.

“Silver Peak is a pioneer in virtualised network services and we share a common commitment to enabling the software defined data centre architecture,” said Justin Giardina, CTO at iland, a leading global VMware vCloud Powered provider. “Silver Peak’s Agility allows our customers to easily accelerate and optimise workloads without the need to reconfigure their networks. This results in dramatically faster time to value for our customers and up to 20x faster data movement for applications like replication and disaster recovery leveraging iland Enterprise Cloud Services.”

“Silver Peak has already demonstrated its leadership in accelerating virtualised network services with WAN optimisation software,” Hughes added. “Now, Silver Peak is partnering with VMware to address the next step: simplifying and automating the deployment of these services across virtualised data centres.”

Silver Peak will demonstrate the Agility integration with VMware NSX at VMworld in San Francisco, 25-29 August, 2013, booth #416. Silver Peak CEO David Hughes will address how the VMware virtual networking architecture enables network services virtualisation at VMworld session TEX5667.