Silver Peak Positioned as Visionary in Magic Quadrant

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data center class Wide Area Network optimization, today announced it has been positioned in the "Visionaries" quadrant of the Gartner 2010 "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers.".

"2010 has been a year of upward momentum across the board for Silver Peak," said Larry Cormier, senior vice president of marketing for Silver Peak. "Earnings, clients, channel partners, innovation breakthroughs, new product introductions, and global expansion -- all evidence of our ability to deliver in a rapidly changing market segment. We believe our placement in the Visionary quadrant reflects that momentum as so then as affirms our vision for scalable, high capacity WAN optimization for data centers, global networks, and emerging private cloud computing."

According to the report, "WAN optimization is about improving the performance of business applications over WAN connections. Most networks carry a variety of traffic types of differing characteristics and importance. Many organizations are striving to manage this traffic to optimize the response times of critical applications and reduce costs, given that bandwidth continues to represent a significant proportion of operating expenditure for wide-area data networks. Nevertheless the cost of bandwidth isn't the only consideration -- matching the allocation of WAN resources to business needs is as well important. And as resources are increasingly centralized, minimizing the effect of latency on application response times is becoming a critical requirement. To boot, virtualization and new application environments just as cloud computing and Web services can put an unexpected strain on the network."

About Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Silver Peak develops data center class network appliances that maximize WAN performance during minimizing WAN costs. The company's unequalled network approach to WAN optimization delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling enterprises to rapidly move large amounts of data across long distances. Silver Peak's WAN optimization solution is a strategic enabler for large IT initiatives, including data center consolidation, data migration, disaster recovery, server centralization, and global application / desktop virtualization.

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