Silver Peak Systems


Silver Peak is a company that develops products for wide area networks, including WAN optimization and SD-WAN. The company was founded in 2004 by David Hughes. Silver Peak shipped its first product, the NX-series hardware appliance, in September 2005, and their first SD-WAN solution, EdgeConnect, in June 2015.
On July 13 2020, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak for $925 Million.

Products and services

As of 2019, Silver Peak's major product lines are:

Dell

Silver Peak is a Dell partner for WAN optimization in over 30 countries, where Dell resells Silver Peak to improve the performance of Dell storage, networking, server, and virtual desktop implementations over the wide area network.

VMware

Silver Peak partners with VMware to offer its virtual WAN optimization products as part of the VMware vCloud Air offering.

EMC

resells Silver Peak physical and virtual WAN optimization appliances, which are available through the EMC Select program. Silver Peak is also the only WAN optimization product qualified and integrated with EMC’s VPLEX Geo. Silver Peak’s WAwan optimization products are E-lab qualified on Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Data Mobility, SAN Copy, Celerra Replicator, Isilon SyncIQ, RecoverPoint, and Atmos.

Hitachi Data Systems

resells Silver Peak's WAN optimization products. Silver Peak can be deployed with HDS backup and replication products.