Silver Peak

Cloud

Teridion launches cloud-based WAN service for enterprise, and new channel program to support it

November 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Teridion launches cloud-based WAN service for enterprise, and new channel program to support it
Until now, Teridion has sold an Internet acceleration service to SaaS providers, and sold it mainly direct, but now they are launching a Cloud-based WAN service that will go entirely through partners, and has created a new channel program to support them.

Channel Programs

Silver Peak completely reworks channel program to add predictability and enhance partner profitability

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak completely reworks channel program to add predictability and enhance partner profitability
Silver Peak acknowledged that its old partner program, implemented in 2015, was deficient in key respects, and has completely restructured the program in order to remedy those problems.

Networking

Silver Peak sees big strategic investment as key validation in crowded SD-WAN market

June 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak sees big strategic investment as key validation in crowded SD-WAN market
Late-stage investor TCV, which has been involved with many other startups who have hit it big, have made a $90 million investment in Silver Peak, to help the company and its channel drive forward at a time when the SD-WAN market is taking off.

Hardware

Dell EMC unveils Virtual Edge hardware platform for SD-WAN

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC unveils Virtual Edge hardware platform for SD-WAN
Dell EMC isn’t becoming an SD-WAN vendor, but they will go to market with software partners integrated with their customized x86 adaption in the form of a networking platform, which is the first using the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor.

Networking

First packet IQ classification enhances Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect

March 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on First packet IQ classification enhances Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect
The improvements to the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution also include centralized orchestration of security policies, including the integration of a stateful firewall, and support for BGP routing protocols.

Networking

Masergy sees new markets strong channel opportunities in managed SD-WAN offering

October 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Masergy sees new markets strong channel opportunities in managed SD-WAN offering
Masergy also believes that managed SD-WAN will be a particularly strong opportunity for their channel partners.

Networking

Silver Peak enters SD-WAN service provider market with Masergy partnership

September 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak enters SD-WAN service provider market with Masergy partnership
Silver Peak also announces the hire of a team of executives to build up the service provide business, which will be expanded with other partnerships.

Networking

Silver Peak reshapes partner program around SD-WAN

September 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak reshapes partner program around SD-WAN
Silver Peak is reworking its channel program to better prepare partners for the SD-WAN market opportunity, which is much larger than traditional WAN optimization, and to assist them in making deployments which will be much less technical and complex than in WAN optimization.

Cloud

New Silver Peak virtual network overlay aims to displace MPLS networks – gradually

June 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Silver Peak virtual network overlay aims to displace MPLS networks – gradually
Unity EdgeConnect, which builds on the Unity fabric Silver Peak announced last year, is a virtual network overlay which leverages broadband to connect users to applications, while also letting them retain their existing routers and firewalls and move to a broadband WAN at their own speed.

Cloud

Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN
Unlike traditional WAN optimization solutions, Unity’s ability to keep Cloud SaaS and IaaS traffic on the same fabric lets it intelligently route traffic to the public cloud over a secure, optimal path.