Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware.
The company's VRX-2, VRX-4 and VRX-8 products are part of its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture, a software suite that features a number of virtualized WAN optimization offerings. The VRX line is compatible with most major hypervisors, including KVM, Hyper-V, vSphere and XenServer and functions with asynchronous IP-based replication products made by NetApp, HDS, Dell and EMC.
All users have to do after purchasing a license, according to Silver Peak, is install the software on both endpoints of a replication job, briefly configure it, and let it run.
Licensing is purchased via a flat annual fee, which ranges from $2,764 for the 60GB/hr VRX-2 to $38,731 for the 1.5TB/hr VRX-8.
The VRX line represents Silver Peak applying its WAN acceleration "secret sauce" to a specific task, according to Forrester analyst Rachel Dines.
"This is part of their overall WAN optimization strategy - just optimized for specific replication technologies," she says.
Dines says that VRX could appeal to any company with this type of fairly large-scale replication requirements, though she identified the financial services, retail and insurance industries as strong potential customers.
"Silver Peak is really focused on large enterprise and large data deployment," she says. "Most companies are replicating data for disaster recovery, and most of them are using array-based replication to do that, so there's actually a pretty large addressable market of companies that might need a solution like this."
