MSNBC.COM Selects Silver Peak

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Silver Peak Systems(www.silver-peak.com), a leading provider of scalable Wide AreaNetwork (WAN) acceleration solutions, today announced that msnbc.comhas selected Silver Peak NX appliances to accelerate Structured QueryLanguage (SQL) log transfers between core facilities, resulting in 25times performance improvements and 93 percent better utilizationacross the company's WAN.

"Poor WAN performance was causing our data replication processes toroutinely fall behind schedule," said Doug Shore, msnbc.com ITDirector. "WAN acceleration proved key to maintaining the company'sstringent Recovery Point Objectives, while maximizing the performanceof other key business applications."

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