Silver Peak Delivers VXOA 6.0 Software

Silver Peak Systems, Inc. announced the availability of its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) release 6.0.

The new software release delivers performance improvements to all Silver Peak physical and virtual products, and includes new features that enable virtualization, storage and networking professionals to accelerate their business-critical workloads quickly and easily over the WAN.

Record Virtual Performance
and Usability for Network Administrators
VXOA helps network administrators improve application performance over the WAN by solving common capacity, distance and quality issues. Release 6.0 offers high-performing (>10 Gbps) and cost-effective WAN acceleration software. VXOA 6.0 now includes:

• Expanded Hypervisor Performance: With VXOA 6.0, Silver Peak extends its virtual performance leadership with multi-gigabit WAN acceleration on all common hypervisors, including vSphere, Hyper-V, and KVM. All virtual products are available for free self-service trials from Silver Peak’s virtual marketplace.

Enhanced Replication Acceleration
for Storage Administrators
VXOA software makes replication over distance easy and affordable, enabling storage administrators to meet RPO. VXOA 6.0 augments this with the following new enhancements:

• Jumbo Frame Acceleration: Jumbo frames (e.g. frames up to 9,000 bytes) are commonly used for high-performance data replication, packing more data into a single package to reduce network overhead and compute cycles. Silver Peak’s WAN acceleration solution supports jumbo frames over standard 1,500-byte WANs, enabling replication solutions to achieve 50% higher throughput.
• 20x Faster Replication in 20 Minutes: With Silver Peak’s Velocity solution, NetApp SnapMirror, Dell Compellent, and Dell EqualLogic customers can leverage VXOA to achieve 20x faster average offsite replication. VXOA can be deployed in under 20 minutes with no networking expertise required using Silver Peak’s storage-based forwarding model. Silver Peak will extend these capabilities to cover additional replication solutions from EMC, HDS and others in the coming months.

Simplified Deployment Options
for Virtualization Administrators
VXOA brings workload acceleration to virtualization professionals by using simplified deployment models and advanced software-defined acceleration (SDA) techniques. Silver Peak VXOA 6.0 delivers the following new enhancements:

• Agility Plug-In for Citrix XenCenter: The company delivers a point-and-click solution for accelerating virtual workloads directly from Citrix XenCenter. This puts control in the hands of virtualization administrators managing XenServer environments, enabling them to maximize the performance of individual workloads in an easy and efficient manner. (In August 2012, Silver Peak demonstrated the first plug-in for VMware vCenter).
• Amazon Web Services Marketplace: The firm is simplifying the acceleration of data and applications provisioned to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. With VXOA 6.0, application administrators can quickly and easily deploy a Silver Peak virtual machine within the Amazon cloud, complementing an existing Silver Peak data center or branch office deployment.

Web GMS Delivers Visibility
into Application Performance from any Device
Silver Peak has re-architected its Global Management System (GMS) based on HTML5. This delivers intuitive, drag-and-drop WAN visibility from nearly any device, including Apple iPads, iPhones, Android phones and tablets, and Windows 8 systems. Web GMS is a single, centralized source for monitoring a Silver Peak-enabled WAN. This includes dashboards that can resize and re-order to fit any size screen. Web GMS provides real-time information, such as bandwidth utilization, network quality, device status, and over a hundred other data points.

VXOA 6.0 is available from Silver Peak and its global network of channel partners. Existing customers with a current support contract can upgrade to the current version the VXOA software.

Free self-service trials for all of Silver Peak’s software products (registration needed)