Silver Peak Systems today released its new NX-10K, multi-gigabit-per-second, data centre-class WAN optimisation appliance.

 

The NX-10K is aimed at big, strategic data centres and, according to Oceania regional director Wayne Neich, is ideal for the coming UFB network initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. 

Gartner research VP Joe Skorupa envisioned multi-gigabit WAN optimisation would play a "critical role" in future data centres, as more applications, data and services become centralised and delivered remotely over a WAN. "For large enterprises and managed service providers planning to support technologies such as cloud computing and virtualisation, achieving the highest degree of performance while simplifying data centre architecture around space, cooling, and power will be crucial," Skorupa said.

 Silver Peak said it saw growing adoption of virtualisation and cloud computing, combined with more applications converging in the data centre, as driving IT leaders to re-architect the data centre. The evolving requirements of these new data centres include standardising on larger capacity WANs and 10 Gbps LAN infrastructures to support data and application mobility, collaboration, and availability across distributed environments.

 

The Silver Peak NX-10K is intended to help ‘future-proof’ data centres for these emerging deployments with four 10 Gbps interfaces, 2.5 Gbps of WAN throughput, and optimisation for all IP traffic and applications in a single appliance.