Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 01 | Page 72

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology 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 72 INTELLIGENTCIO 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 www.intelligentcio.com