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Silver Peak, EMC tie-up boots WAN visibility

Ann Bednarz By Ann Bednarz
To get the most from WAN acceleration devices, it helps to know what's happening not only across the WAN environment but also inside associated data center environments. To that end, Silver Peak Systems this week announced it is teaming up with EMC to provide customers with better visibility across storage and WAN environments. Read full story

Ann Bednarz is associate news editor at Network World.

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