Ares Management Accelerates WAN With Silver Peak

Silver Peak Systems, Inc. announced that Ares Management LLC, a leading private investment firm, has selected Silver Peak NX appliances as a key enabler for the company’s data protection and server consolidation plans. By accelerating the transfer of data between facilities in the United States and Europe, the company has improved employee collaboration while ensuring that sensitive client data remains safe and secure at all times.

“By overcoming WAN performance issues, Silver Peak helped us reap the cost, management, and security benefits of centralized application servers,” said Ping Ooi, Assistant Vice President at Ares Management. “In addition, WAN acceleration has improved our disaster recovery initiatives by enabling real-time replication of our Compellent SAN between Los Angeles and New York.”

The Silver Peak solution is optimized to support large networks, delivering the best performance on high capacity WAN links and across many distributed enterprise locations. Silver Peak offers the industry’s premier solution for disk-based WAN deduplication – Network Memory – which reduces over 95 percent of WAN traffic and ensures LAN-like application performance across the WAN by eliminating the transfer of duplicate data. Network Memory works on all enterprise applications, regardless of transport protocol (TCP, UDP or proprietary) or latency requirements. As a result, Silver Peak is commonly used to accelerate a variety of business-critical applications, including real-time data replication, remote backup, SQL, file, email, web, Voice over IP (VoIP) and streaming video.

“WAN optimization is a must have when doing backup and recovery between data centers,” said Jim Andronaco, president of Sidepath, Silver Peak’s reseller partner at Ares Management. “Time and time again we see enterprises like Ares turn to Silver Peak when data volumes are saturating WAN connections and jeopardizing recovery point and time objectives.”