EV Group & Silver Peak streamline workflow
EV Group (EVG) has deployed data acceleration software from Silver Peak Systems to cost-effectively accelerate data and applications between its global offices.
EVG is a manufacturer of precision systems for processing wafers for the semiconductor, microsystem and nanotechnology sectors. EVG's solutions are used by electronics manufacturers from around the world to develop and manufacture innovative products.
EVG is constantly sending data between its head office in Austria and remote sites in the US, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In addition to transferring large files and backing up data from these remote sites, the company relies on a variety of 10, 20, and 50 megabit-per-second (Mbps) WAN connections for business-critical applications that include SAP, Siebel, Web and email.
"We were constantly encountering delays with our data transfers, which interfered with our workflows," says Alexander Olm, head of IT infrastructure for EVG. "Silver Peak was the solution-of-choice for a number of reasons. Their products provide outstanding performance, offer excellent support for linking our remote offices and data centres, and are easy to implement."
As part of the search for a suitable data acceleration solution, EVG examined data acceleration products from a number of leading suppliers.
The company selected Silver Peak because of its software-based approach that gives the company flexibility to deploy virtual or physical WAN acceleration systems with equal performance, features and functionality. EVG currently uses a variety of Silver Peak NX physical appliances and VX virtual machines running on VMware.
"In our experience, it is the ease-of-configuration and maintenance that makes the virtual solution ideal for our smaller offices," Olm adds. "Thanks to Silver Peak, centrally hosted applications accessed by staff at our remote sites run five-to-10 times faster. All applications can be used fluidly."
Silver Peak partnered with sysob IT-Distribution GmbH & CoKG, and Munich-based Data-Warehouse GmbH to ensure testing and implementation went seamlessly in the EV Group environment.
Silver Peak software accelerates data between data centres, branch offices and the cloud.
