Santa Clara, Calif., March 16, 2009 – Silver Peak Systems , the leader in scalable Wide Area Network (WAN) acceleration, today announced that Intelius, a leading provider of public records information and services, has selected Silver Peak’s NX appliances to optimize WAN performance. With Silver Peak’s real-time network optimization techniques, Intelius is improving the quality of Voice over IP (VoIP) communications across the WAN, while accelerating file sharing, backups, and real-time database queries. By giving Intelius employees fast and secure access to critical information, Silver Peak is helping the company help its customers make fast and accurate decisions.
“We evaluated numerous WAN optimization solutions in our quest to find the perfect fit for the Intelius environment,” said Paul Farrall, Director of Operations at Intelius. “In the end, we chose Silver Peak because they have a unique ability to deduplicate both TCP and non-TCP traffic, which reduced our WAN utilization by over 90%. In addition, they detect and fix packet loss in real-time, which significantly improves the performance and reliability of voice, SQL, and other time sensitive applications.”
Silver Peak leverages a variety of real-time network optimization techniques to maximize application performance across the WAN while minimizing IT operational costs. These techniques include:
• Network Acceleration to overcome WAN latency
• Network Integrity to correct packet loss and WAN quality problems
• Network Memory™ to maximize WAN bandwidth utilization
Silver Peak’s unique network approach to WAN acceleration delivers unprecedented scalability, including the highest effective throughput of any WAN acceleration device. This makes Silver Peak ideal for large enterprise networks and applications with high sustained data volumes.
Silver Peak optimizes every application that runs over IP, including file, email, web, SQL, Voice over IP (VoIP), streaming video, Citrix, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), real-time data replication, and remote backup. This provides the best Return on Investment (ROI) for WAN acceleration.
Silver Peak is the only vendor to solve bandwidth, latency, and loss issues in real time, making shared networks (IP VPN and MPLS) perform like private lines. Enterprises get cost-effective bandwidth with high throughput and predictable performance, making Silver Peak strategic to a variety of business initiatives, from server centralization and storage consolidation to real-time collaboration and disaster recovery.
About Intelius
Intelius is a leading information service provider that delivers consumers and businesses with information to empower the decision-making process for peace of mind and security. To date, Intelius has gained more than seven million unique customers who use Intelius' information to reconnect and protect their loved ones, businesses and assets. Intelius' services include background checks, people search services, comprehensive employment screening services and an award-winning identity theft prevention product. Intelius is one of the top 100 most trafficked sites on the Internet, according to comScore/Media Metrix. Intelius was listed as an Inc. 500 company and was named one of Washington's top three Best Workplaces by the Puget Sound Business Journal in 2007, and in 2006, Intelius was named the American Business Awards' Best New Company, and was listed amongst the top 15 Corporate Philanthropists by Puget Sound Business Journal. For more about Intelius screening products and services, visit http://hr.intelius.com . For more about Intelius' business, news and policies, visit http://www.intelius.com/corp .
About Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Silver Peak is the leader in scalable Wide Area Network (WAN) acceleration. The company’s award-winning NX appliances optimize all current and future applications across an entire enterprise, making Silver Peak strategic to a variety of core business initiatives, such as server centralization, real-time collaboration and disaster recovery. For more information on the Silver Peak solution, visit http://www.silver-peak.com/infocenter
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