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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...