Says it finds quickest paths to Office 365, Salesforce.com and many more
Silver Peak has released a comprehensive solution for optimizing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Unity, the new wide-area-network (WAN) fabric from Silver Peak, enables IT to control cloud connectivity across the enterprise and accelerate applications on any network.
Unlike traditional WAN optimization, Unity finds the best route to applications in the public cloud as well as on private networks announced the press release. It does this using sophisticated new cloud intelligence and WAN routing technology, which correlates information about SaaS applications and Internet “weather,” then sends traffic to the cloud over the shortest or least-congested path.
“SaaS has taken business productivity to new heights, but it has also dramatically changed the dynamics of IT networking,” said Damon Ennis, SVP of products for Silver Peak. “The weather on the Internet can be congested one minute and tolerable the next, making the performance of cloud services unpredictable. Even worse, your IT staff have no way to monitor traffic to the cloud once it leaves the WAN. Silver Peak’s Unity fabric gives them capabilities they’ve never had before. It turns the Internet into your own private, high-performance network and brings SaaS under the control of IT.”
The Unity network fabric is generated by Silver Peak software installed in data centers, branch offices and cloud interconnection hubs, in conjunction with Silver Peak’s new Cloud Intelligence Service. Cloud Intelligence aggregates ever-changing information about SaaS providers, including the physical locations where the providers’ data is being served, and provides minute-to-minute updates on Internet weather patterns.
