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 allow data to move more efficiently, quickly and cost-effectively across those enterprise locations, whether it is data being protected between a data center and a disaster recovery facility – to mitigate against catastrophes – or data from users in remote offices that have to access data, computing, and storage infrastructures in data centers that are thousands of miles away. Or data that is moving between one company to another. >>>

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 and his opinion on what startups should focus on when entering this space, and he discusses opportunities for investors in this space. >>>

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