Data center class wide area network (WAN) optimization provider, Silver Peak (News - Alert) Systems, has announced that California Water Service Group's largest subsidiary, California Water Service Company (Cal Water), has completed its deployment of Silver Peak's NX appliances.


Cal Water is known as the third largest investor-owned water utility in the United States. Based in San Jose, the company began providing water utility services in 1926 and serves more than 460,000 customers today through 28 customer and operations centers throughout California.

Cal Water is relying on Silver Peak Systems' NX appliances to optimize NetApp SnapMirror replication between data centers and to improve the performance of key productivity applications across the company's 29 distributed offices.

Silver Peak offers real-time network optimization techniques to maximize application performance across the WAN while also minimizing IT operational costs. Such techniques include network acceleration to overcome WAN latency; network integrity to correct packet delivery issues and intelligently allocate WAN resources; and network memory to maximize WAN bandwidth utilization.

The NX and VX appliances offered by Silver Peak scale from Kbps to Gbps of WAN capacity to meet the changing needs of the enterprise. The appliances are designed to optimize all IP traffic, irrespective of transport protocol and application software version.

Silver Peak is positioned as the most cost effective WAN optimization solution for large enterprise networks as a result of delivering the highest capacity applications that benefit the largest enterprise networks.

The company develops data center class network appliances meant to maximize WAN performance while also minimizing WAN costs. The company offers a unique approach to WAN optimization that delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, which enables enterprises to rapidly move large amounts of data across long distances.

In other Silver Peak news, the company announced in May that its NX series appliances and Global Management System (GMS (News - Alert)) are now available through Hitachi Data Systems. The company's entire NX series of appliances including NX-1000, NX-3000, NX-5000, NX-7000, and NX-9000 and Global Management System will now be available for ordering through Hitachi Data Systems (News - Alert) and its reseller partners.

In June, the company appointed Alan Leong as vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role, Mr. Leong will be responsible for driving the growth of Silver Peak into these markets, including new customer acquisition and ongoing partner development throughout the Asia pacific region.

Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Erin Monda