Silver Peak will demo its Agility plug-in at VM World, which allows IT staff to optimize wide area network performance in a virtualized environment without directly interacting with the network layer.
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CEO Rick Tinsley says the virtual switch technology integrated into VMware's vSphere hypervisor was the key to making the product work in that environment.
It's a reflection of the increasing virtualization and abstraction of enterprise infrastructure; the virtual architecture abstracts the physical switch hardware from the user, much as storage virtualization abstracts the user from the storage hardware.
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