WAN optimization

Silver Peak reshapes partner program around SD-WAN

September 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

June 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Riverbed unveils reframed SteelFusion with new hyperconverged platform

April 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new software-defined platform has 2.5 times more compute and ten times more storage than its predecessor, as well as software enhancements that improve security and speed up provisioning and recovery times.

Software-defined WAN vendor Talari looks to complete channel-centric evolution with new partner program

April 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Talari is particularly looking to add and support partners who will wrap services around their solution, something they think can serve as a focus area of a solution provider’s practice for the next decade.

Infrascale announces unique converged backup solution with WAN acceleration

February 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

While converged backup is becoming more common, Infrascale’s offering, which includes WAN optimization and a cloud gateway, is unique.

Riverbed redoes Technology Alliance Program to cover whole product line

November 4, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new Riverbed-Ready program is for ISVs partners, and is designed to spur new and more full featured solutions which cover all the elements of Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform, but solution provider partners are also expected to benefit significantly.

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

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.