27 February 2014

Silver Peak claims its WAN acceleration software provides an “ongoing LAN-like experience” for cloud-hosted applications.

Silver Peak’s virtual WAN optimisation software now supports deployments on VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service

The firm says that cloud performance can be limited because of the bandwidth, latency and quality challenges that are inherent in a WAN. It has therefore teamedup with VMware to alleviate these issues.

vCloud has been designed as a secure, dedicated hybrid cloud service and is built upon VMware’s vSphere platform. Silver Peak says its WAN acceleration software complements the service in several key areas, such as initial data migration, ongoing data synchronisation, and multisite access to the cloud. It accelerates data transfers to the cloud and provides, according to Silver Peak, “an ongoing LAN-like experience” for cloud-hosted applications, enabling users to more quickly and easily transition to a public or hybrid environment over distance.

“The performance of any cloud application is directly related to the performance of the network,” says Marc Trimuschat, VP of alliances, Silver Peak. “Whether you plan to use vCloud Hybrid Service for hosting business applications or backing up data, our software installs quickly and easily to make your cloud resources feel like they are in the same building.”

Silver Peak has two versions of software available from the vCloud Hybrid Service marketplace: VX is for geographically distributed, multi-site access, while Velocity Replication Acceleration is for secure siteto- site data migration, ongoing replication and backups. The software is deployed at each end of a WAN connection.