[May 25, 2012] Silver Peak Releases Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture 5.2 Tweet May 25, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Silver Peak Systems announced its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) release 5.2, which enables enterprises to overcome WAN bandwidth, quality and distance barriers to public cloud deployments. Silver Peak reported that the latest software provides automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, hundreds-of-thousands of simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures, and support for all common hypervisors. "The proliferation of 'big data' and cloud-based applications is driving change within today's data centers, including standardizing on larger-capacity networks, virtualization, and the use of non-TCP tunneled protocols like OTV, VXLAN and NVGRE that are required for virtual machine (VM) mobility across data centers," said Damon Ennis, VP of product management for Silver Peak. "With Silver Peak VXOA, enterprises can quickly and easily future-proof the WAN for these evolving data center requirements and the inevitable transition to the cloud. Customers benefit from the industry's highest performance virtual and physical WAN optimization appliances that can be deployed anywhere, and on nearly any platform or hypervisor." Silver Peak VXOA optimizes all Internet protocol (IP) traffic and runs on any hardware platform or hypervisor. The Company reported that the new capabilities in Silver Peak VXOA 5.2 include: -Auto-Optimization for Tunneled Protocols -- Many emerging applications for big data and VM mobility rely on non-TCP tunneled protocols such as Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) developed by Cisco Systems, UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol (UDT) for transferring large volumetric datasets over high speed WANs (e.g. EMC VPLEX), Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) from VMware and Cisco, and Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) developed by Microsoft and others. Silver Peak Auto-Optimization with real-time tunneling helps customer optimize the WAN for these types of non-TCP applications "out-of-the-box." -Uncontested Performance for 10 Gigabit Infrastructures -- Silver Peak VXOA powers the industry's highest-performance, highest-capacity physical and virtual WAN optimization appliances. The Silver Peak NX-10K physical appliance now supports 512,000 simultaneous flows for 10 Gbps WAN infrastructures. This is critical for supporting thousands of users connecting to the cloud. -Citrix XenServer and KVM Hypervisor Support -- Silver Peak VXOA and its virtual WAN optimization appliances offer the broadest hypervisor support, including VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM. Many public cloud environments are and will be leveraging Citrix XenServer and KVM, and now Silver Peak VXOA supports Citrix XenServer and KVM for data center deployments. Silver Peak is a provider of data center class WAN optimization. More Information: www.silver-peak.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]