Wednesday 30 May 2012

Ingram Micro to distribute Silver Peak WAN optimisation in Australia

Silver Peak Systems and Ingram Micro Australia announced today that, as part of a distribution partnership across the APAC region, Ingram Micro has will distribute Silver Peak’s leading data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation products to resellers and customers in Australia. 

“The growth of virtualised Infrastructures and centralised, cloud-based applications provides a strong growth opportunity for Silver Peak data centre class WAN optimisation solutions in this market,” said David Lenz, Senior Director, Enterprise Technology Group for Ingram Micro. 

Silver Peak virtual and physical appliances provide the highest-capacity and most comprehensive options for deploying WAN optimisation anywhere—from data centres, to branch offices, and to the cloud. Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) also aligns well with Ingram Micro’s virtual infrastructure offerings from companies such as VMware (vSphere), Microsoft (Hyper-V), and KVM.
This enables enterprises to accelerate and optimise IT initiatives while reducing WAN infrastructure costs, including added costs for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), Internet virtual private networking (VPN) and satellite WANs.

“Silver Peak’s innovative solutions and strong support for the channel make them an ideal partner and one which strongly complements our existing enterprise data centre vendor partners. We are looking forward to working closely with the Silver Peak team and our resellers to capitalise on the opportunities this strongly growing segment of the market offers,” says Lenz.

“Australia is a critical region for WAN optimisation because of highly distributed IT environments and the inherent lower-quality WAN connectivity,” said Arturo Cazares, senior vice president of worldwide sales for Silver Peak. “By teaming with Ingram Micro and our reseller partners in Australia, we will help customers cost-effectively maximise their WAN resources and accelerate the adoption of business-critical applications between data centres, branch offices, and the cloud.”

As part of the new value-added distribution relationship, Ingram Micro and Silver Peak are co-investing in dedicated technical support staff, market development, and cross-trained sales engineers across the APAC region. 

About Ingram Micro Inc. 

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 150 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. For more information visit www.ingrammicro.com.au 

About Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Silver Peak is the leader in data centre class WAN optimisation. The company’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling rapid deployment of WAN optimisation anywhere and on any platform or hypervisor. Silver Peak’s WAN optimisation solutions are strategic enablers for large IT initiatives, including data centre consolidation, data migration, cloud computing, disaster recovery, server centralisation, and hosted virtual desktops (VDI). 

For more information, visit www.silver-peak.com, or follow Silver Peak on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and the WAN Speak Blog.

Source  http://www.cfoworld.com.au/mediareleases/14257/ingram-micro-to-distribute-silver-peak-wan/