Case Study

CUSTOM E R P ROFI LE

Leading Entertainment Provider

Optimizes Offsite Disaster Recovery

with Silver Peak

BUSINESS CHALLENGES:

The Entertainment Company is a leading provider of entertainment, information and

» Around the clock access to

communications products and services in the United States.

high bandwidth, real-time

video content straining available

network resource.

» Poor WAN performance jeopardizing

Disaster Recovery; Not able to maintain

3 hour RTO and 24 hour RPO.

» Limited floor space in data centers

requires extensive virtualization.

When The Entertainment Company wanted to establish a disaster recovery site, it

faced a challenge all too familiar to many enterprises: How to replicate large amounts

of data across the country and still meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and

Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)?

Buying more bandwidth wasn’t the answer. The Entertainment Company already had

NETWORK BACKGROUND:

multiple 10 Gbps lines between sites and yet NetApp SnapMirror was still unable to

» Two data centers in Pennsylvania with a

replicate data on time. Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization was the logical choice,

disaster recovery site in Colorado.

but space was at a premium in Acme Services’ data center.

» All sites in active/warm configuration

moving to active/active.

» Multiple 10 Gbps WAN connections

between locations with 65 ms

average latency.

SILVER PEAK RESULTS:

“Every inch of our data center floor space is already allocated for future expansion,”

says the lead architect for The Entertainment Company. “There is a big pushback on

deploying new physical devices of any kind in our data center. It was clear from the

get go that we needed the virtual WAN optimization solution with the highest

capacity that we could find.”

» 63GB of data replicated in about

20 minutes for 478Mbps of throughput.

Prior to Silver Peak, replication took

six hours.

» Peak throughput reached...