Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The middle to the end of the 1990s was really the golden era. Rick Tinsley: Part of it was driven by the Telecom Act of 1996, because it wasn’t just enterprise, there were also large service providers and startup service providers who were buying a lot of new gear from new companies. That

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That brings me to an observation that there has been a dramatic drop in networking-related venture or even angel deals. Can you comment on that? Rick Tinsley: For many years most networking customers were just happy buying things from Cisco – you don’t get fired for buying things from Cisco. We have seen

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Given that that is what you do, what trends do you see in the market right now? What are trends you are anticipating? Rick Tinsley: The number one trend is affecting our business and all networking businesses right now. It is the move towards virtualizations.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So what you do is load balancing on intranet traffic? Rick Tinsley: It is not load balancing. It is called WAN optimization or WAN acceleration – networks that extend over great distances. Our products are network elements, although recently they have been purely software-based products. But we employ a variety of techniques that

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 1)

Rick Tinsley is the former chief executive officer of Silver Peak, a company that focuses on wide area network (WAN) optimization through the virtualization of networks. In this interview Rick talks about Silver Peak’s focus on accelerating data flow of enterprises over large distances. He also gives us insights into the future of the industry

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