Silver Peak Releases Software for Accelerating Offsite Replication Workloads

Silver
Peak Systems Inc. introduced a family of downloadable software
products that are built for storage professionals to accelerate their
offsite data replication workloads.

The VRX-2,
VRX-4 and VRX-8 software products are part of the company’s
velocity solution, which combines data acceleration technology with
pricing to deliver 20x faster replication performance (on average)
over any distance.

72% of organisations want to do more
offsite data replication, but 66% believe they are limited by the WAN
performance. This software overcomes WAN bandwidth, distance and
quality challenges and allows storage professionals to meet their
RPOs by replicating more data, over longer distances, and in less
time. The software enables businesses to lower DR costs by
eliminating dedicated networks for replication and avoiding specific
bandwidth upgrades for replication workloads.

"Most storage professionals
understand the importance of offsite data replication, but until now,
have been handcuffed by the network when attempting to extend the
distance of their replication apps," said Everett Dolgner,
director of replication product management for Silver Peak. "Silver
Peak VRX software puts the power and control of data acceleration in
the hands of the storage administrator. In less than 20 mn, a
storage manager can easily meet their RPOs, lower DR costs and extend
the distance between replication sites."

The products are based on the company’s
Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture, which uses real-time
optimisation techniques to maximise replication performance over any
existing WAN infrastructure. The software deploys into any
replication environment and runs on all standard hypervisors,
including vSphere, Hyper-V, Xenserver and KVM. It supports Silver
Peak’s VXOA capabilities and is proven with all asynchronous
IP-based replication solutions from Dell, EMC, HDS, NetApp and
others.

The new VRX software comes in three
models:

• VRX-2 – Replication capacity of up to
  60 GB/hr for $2,764/year

• VRX-4 – Replication capacity of up to
  300 GB/hr for $8,297/year

• VRX-8 – Replication capacity of up to
  1.5 TB/hr for $38,731/year

Storage professionals can accelerate
their replication traffic in under 20mn. No special networking
expertise is required. The storage administrator downloads the
desired VRX software from the Silver Peak marketplace, installs the
software in the same locations as the source and target devices on
the hypervisor of their choice, and redirects traffic to the VRX from
the source and target storage devices with a few commands.

"Silver Peak is rock solid and
pushing data at the speed of light over low-cost 1Gig WAN links. To
get the same result without Silver Peak, you would need three private
10Gig links between Atlanta and Chicago at a cost of $15K per month,
per connection," said Mahmoud Harb, CareerBuilder.com.

"Through a combination of
real-time optimisation techniques, Silver Peak enabled us to reduce
our replication times from 24 hours to 8 hours over our existing
WAN infrastructure," said Tom Robertson, CTO at Charter
Bank.

"We were able to quickly
install Silver Peak and simply redirect the traffic between our
EqualLogic arrays through the Silver Peak virtual appliances. No
changes to the network were required," said Bart Haans, ICT
manager for ZLTO.

"We met our recovery point
objectives without doing any special tweaks to the network or
datasets, which really makes Silver Peak stand out," said Travis Rupp, associate VP of project management in IT for Denali
Alaskan Federal Credit Union.