Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 12 | Page 73

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business At a glance… Silver Peak and Masergy partner for managed SD-WAN Scott Ulrich, Senior Engineering Team Leader, Large Power Systems Division, Caterpillar. “Teradata AoTAs are already addressing and resolving $100 million-dollar problems for manufacturers of vehicles, equipment, oil and gas systems, and consumer goods,” said Oliver Ratzesberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Teradata. “These challenges represent billion-dollar budgets for each company, to be clear on the scale of business value addressed by AoTA. For example, our AoTAs have increased overall equipment effectiveness as much as 85%, while also improving predictability and asset availability.” Forecasts project 21 billion connected “things” in the digital universe by 2020. With data volumes generated by the IoT already dwarfing data waves from social media, information leaders must begin now to identify the requirements necessary to support adoption and implementation of IoT capabilities. Along with establishing requirements, they must also develop strategies, processes and execution plans to ensure that data is optimised to deliver compelling ROI. www.intelligentcio.com Silver Peak, the global provider of broadband and hybrid WAN solutions, announced a partnership agreement with Masergy to offer Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect and Unity Boost managed SD-WAN services to its enterprise customers. The agreement expands Masergy’s Managed Network f(n) solution portfolio with – high-performance Managed SD-WAN solutions. Masergy, which operates the largest independent SoftwareDefined Platform in the world, selected the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution for its zero touch provisioning, centralised orchestration and Dynamic Path Control features as well as Unity Boost for WAN optimisation, all in a single integrated solution. Collectively, the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution offers the enhanced performance and features that complement the company’s global high-performance, hybrid network solutions. (To learn more about the Masergy managed service portfolio and SD-WAN strategy, see the press release Masergy Announces Managed SD-WAN Solution.) “After evaluating a range of SD-WAN solutions, we selected the Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution based on its advanced software, performance and security features and functionality.” said Tim Naramore, Masergy CTO. “When you combine our patented technology, hybrid networking and unmatched customer experience with Silver Peak’s ability to build simple-to-deploy and dynamic SD-WANs, we will deliver truly unique and differentiated service offerings to our customers.” INTELLIGENTCIO 73