Silver Peak positioned as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner positions Silver Peak as a leader when the demand and requirements for delivering and deploying WAN optimization are at an all-time high. Silver Peak is executing on a global scale with powerful and innovative products, highly-motivated channels, and new and repeat customers who continue to select Silver Peak over the competition. We believe our placement in the Leaders Quadrant confirms that Silver Peak is the innovator in WAN optimization with the most comprehensive and flexible options for deploying high capacity WAN optimization anywhere and on any platform.
Strengths
Silver Peak maintained its focus in data center storage replication, where it's strong and backed up by segment-leading products, and good strategic alliances with data center infrastructure companies.
The company has a large portfolio of appliances, with flexibility on deployment options (hardware and virtual appliances) and pricing (subscription, perpetual and free). It has released a free entry-level WOC and a virtual data center WOC.
It has good QoS and optimizes all IP traffic — TCP and UDP. Specific enhancements and certifications for SRDF, Brocade FCIP, and EMC VPLEX are available.
Significant global expansion over the past 12 months, particularly in Europe and Asia, which together now account for about 20% of total revenue.
Expanded partnerships with Avaya (virtual appliance running on Avaya's router), Hitachi Data Systems, Dell and EMC (virtual storage solution), and a new partnership with HP (virtual appliance running on HP's switch).
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