Silver Peak expands cloud partner ecosystem

SD-WAN outfit Silver Peak has announced that the business-driven Unity EdgeConnect platform is now fully certified for deployment in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

This means that geographically distributed enterprises can now execute multi-cloud strategies with the same network and application availability and resiliency they’ve come to expect from their EdgeConnect branch site deployments. Silver Peak now boasts the broadest public cloud service partner ecosystem in the industry adding Google Cloud to existing partners Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

With the announcement, enterprise customers host EdgeConnect across any combination of the four leading public cloud services platforms with the same ease of deployment, feature and license parity and the performance and efficiency they’ve come to expect from Silver Peak.The move will give Enterprises multi-cloud flexibility and allow them to choose their public cloud platforms, making it easier to initiate multi-cloud deployments and distribute resources across multiple cloud providers, deploying the best or most economical services from any combination of cloud providers.

Silver Peak said that with EdgeConnect and the optional WAN optimisation performance pack, Unity Boost, enterprises can accelerate data access, dramatically reduce the amount of data transferred and optimise application performance between cloud instances.

Chris Helfer, senior vice president of strategic alliances at Silver Peak said that the outfit is the only SD-WAN vendor in the industry to partner with all four leading public cloud platform providers, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.”

“Enterprise customers gain choice and control in how they execute multi-cloud strategies in alignment with their business requirements. By harnessing the full power of the Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, they can deliver the highest quality of experience to their users whether applications or services are hosted in their own data centres or across any combination of leading public cloud provider’s data centres.”