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Silver Peak
expands its SDWAN ecosystem
Silver Peak, the broadband and hybrid
wide area networks (WANs) provider, has
announced it has teamed with Infoblox,
the network control company, Nutanix,
the next-generation enterprise computing
company, and Zscaler, the Internet security
company, to expand its Unity EdgeConnect
ecosystem for building software-defined
WANs (SD-WANs).
T
hese alliances provide a new
set of secure, optimised, and
interoperable hardware and
software solutions for deploying
broadband and hybrid WANs, and
reducing branch office OPEX/CAPEX
when connecting users to applications.
integrated and centrally-managed
DNS, DHCP, and IP address
management (DDI) to support
evolving IT needs while providing
high standards for service uptime,
operational efficiencies, security, and
IT ecosystem integration.
“Silver Peak is dramatically reducing
the cost and complexity of building
a WAN through broadband Internet
connectivity, and our simplified
deployment options pave the path to
a ‘thin’ branch office architecture,”
said Damon Ennis, SVP of products for
Silver Peak.
While Silver Peak EdgeConnect
appliances allow new sites to be
connected in minutes, the Infoblox DDI
solution helps to reduce the amount
of time it takes to deploy network
services to those remote sites. Silver
Peak Unity EdgeConnect DHCP and
DNS forwarding supports centralised
Infoblox deployments (in either a
data centre or regional hub) enabling
centralised, scalable management of
DDI services and is transparent to end-
Infoblox centralises and helps to
secure DNS, DHCP, and IP Address
Management Infoblox provides
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users and applications.
Nutanix Offers Hyper converged
Infrastructure for Virtual EdgeConnect
Deployments. Nutanix delivers
invisible infrastructure for nextgeneration enterprise computing
by integrating storage, compute
and virtualisation into a turnkey
hyper converged solution. Built on a
distributed web-scale architecture,
a single Nutanix solution can
simultaneously run many workloads,
including Silver Peak Unity
EdgeConnect virtual appliances.
The combination of Nutanix and
Silver Peak EdgeConnect virtual
appliances provides customers even
faster ROI, greater flexibility and
simplified SD-WAN deployments
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