Talari Networks, a leading innovator in WAN reliability and application quality, announced it has won the Best of Interop 2013 Award in the “Performance Optimisation & Testing”category for its new [...]]]> We are very proud to announce that two of our top technology vendors have won Best of Interop Awards 2013!

Talari Networks, a leading innovator in WAN reliability and application quality, announced it has won the Best of Interop 2013 Award in the “Performance Optimisation & Testing”category for its new Adaptive Private Networking (APN) 3.0 operating software.

Arista Networks was named the Best of Interop 2013 winner and the Arista 7500E Modular Data Center Ethernet Switch has won both the Grand Prize and the Networking category, recognising innovation and technological advancements. This is the second Interop award for Arista’s flagship 7500 Series, originally selected as Best of Interop in 2010.

The Best of Interop 2013 Awards were announced on May 7 at the Interop Las Vegas conference, which is recognised as the industry’s premier event with the most coveted awards in the IT sector.

To see the awards in full click HERE

About Us: Response Data Communications

Response Data Communications have been delivering leading-edge communications solutions, backed by Superior consultative pre-sales, service and support for over 17 years. Our Mission is to deliver secure, high-performance communications solutions that optimise technology, time and costs for our customers.

WAN Optimisation, Unified Communications, Contact Centre Solutions, Enterprise WiFi, Scale-Out Storage, Next-Generation Firewalls and Video Conferencing are at the core of a wide range of communications solutions delivered to a variety of clients throughout the UK. With specialist expertise in key vertical markets and over 17 years experience, Response Data Communications (RDC) has assisted some of the UK’s leading organisations in achieving their communications objectives.

ShoreTel®, the leading provider of brilliantly simple unified communications platforms including business [...]]]> A new iPhone/iPad docking station from ShoreTel enables employees to use their devices at work as desk phones, and will be available to UK companies from ShoreTels only ‘Gold Exclusive’ Partner in the EMEA, Response Data Communications from its release in July of this year.

ShoreTel®, the leading provider of brilliantly simple unified communications platforms including business phone systems, applications and mobile UC solutions, have announced the release of ShoreTel Dock, the industry’s first business-grade docking station that transforms iPhones® and iPads® into desk phones.

The new ShoreTel Dock, available from Response. An iPad/iPhone Docking Station allowing employees the flexibility to use their own device as their desk phone.

The need for an increasingly mobile workforce to remain connected at all times, combined with building design and materials that inhibit cellular radio transmission, mean that businesses are always looking for ways to provide in-building coverage without the significant investment of mobile-based technology. ShoreTel Mobility helps enterprises and governments take control of in-building coverage problems and leverage Wireless LAN networks to provide wireless coverage. The ShoreTel Dock also adds traditional telephone capabilities (audio quality, always-on power, ergonomic comfort) for ShoreTel Mobility users, without requiring any additional support from the IT department. 

By combining ShoreTel Mobility Solutions and Conferencing Solutions, users get a phenomenal UC experience, utilising voice, instant messaging, presence and conferencing on a device that they already know and love. With the requirement for cheaper and sometimes more reliable Wi-fi enabled communications growing within the business environment, the ability for longer VoIP calls while an iPhone is docked makes for an even more comfortable user experience as an alternative to the standard handset or headset.

Users can place and answer calls by simply picking up the handset and dialling a number on the keypad or by using the devices screen, automatically launching the ShoreTel Mobility application and making the increasingly popular BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) experience even simpler ensuring employees remain productive by working on their own familiar devices.

Response, together with ShoreTel have a proven history of delivering exceptional communications solutions in all types of companies. Click on the following customer case studies to learn how Arcadia Petroleum dramatically cut communication overheads by deploying ShoreTel UC across their entire global footprint, and see how Response moved 700 Tulip staff on the ShoreTel Unified Comms platform in just 3 days.

Response Data Communications were awarded ShoreTel’s first and only ‘Exclusive Gold Champion Partner’ status in July 2011 and continue to supply UK Multi-Sited companies the brilliantly simple ShoreTel product showcase as their sole unified communications solution alongside a carefully chosen list of other complementary technologies from a wide variety of technology leaders in the fields of Data Storage, WAN Optimisation, Network Visibility, Enterprise Wifi and Security.

To find out more about how we can help you achieve your technology requirements, with solutions that improve the productivity of you and your entire organisation, whilst saving you time and money, get in touch with one of our team now to arrange an appointment to discuss your project

 In the meantime, why not find out more about some of the above technologies, gather ideas for how you would like to develop your project or even find help on how to build a business case to support your need for these technologies within your company by taking a look at our whitepapers and partner videos.

SYDNEY, Apr. 29, 2013 – Silver Peak Systems today raised the bar for wide area network (WAN) performance with the release of two new data centre class software products, and the introduction of the world’s [...]]]> Response partner, Silver Peak, sets WAN performance record with new software and high-end hardware platform

SYDNEY, Apr. 29, 2013 – Silver Peak Systems today raised the bar for wide area network (WAN) performance with the release of two new data centre class software products, and the introduction of the world’s fastest WAN optimisation hardware appliance capable of delivering 20 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) of data throughput.

Data volumes are growing rapidly and the need to move more data over distance for disaster recovery or centralised applications is straining WAN infrastructures. Today, 66% of IT professionals believe limited bandwidth constrains their ability to replicate data while 72% would like to replicate more data . To keep IT operations running smoothly and spending down, companies of all sizes must address these new challenges and avoid costly infrastructure upgrades by deploying data acceleration solutions. Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) powers the most flexible and highest-performing options, both software and hardware, for moving data quickly between remote offices, data centres, and the cloud.

World’s fastest WAN optimisation software The new Silver Peak VX-8000 and VX-9000 are the industry’s fastest software data accelerators. The VX-9000 delivers more than one Gbps of WAN performance—10-times faster than the nearest competitor’s virtual product family (Riverbed Virtual Steelhead).

The new products complement Silver Peak’s comprehensive portfolio of downloadable VX virtual software, which run on any standard hypervisor including VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM. The VX software combines the cost and flexibility benefits of virtualisation with the performance gains associated with Silver Peak data acceleration technology.

To read the full press release from CSO click HERE

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Response’s top storage technology solutions partner Nimble Storage who is the leading provider of flash-optimised, hybrid storage solutions, has today announced that it [...]]]> Download Report HERE

New Gartner Research Positions Nimble Storage in the Visionaries Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays

Response’s top storage technology solutions partner Nimble Storage who is the leading provider of flash-optimised, hybrid storage solutions, has today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner in the Visionaries quadrant of the General-Purpose Disk Arrays Magic Quadrant authored by Roger W. Cox, Valdis Filks and Stanley Zaffos. The report, released on March 21, combines providers of general purpose high-end, midrange, and NAS or unified storage systems and positions these vendors into one of four quadrants, Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players. Nimble Storage was recognised as a visionary based on the company’s vision and ability to execute. View the full “Magic Quadrant for General Purpose Disk Arrays” report. 

Magic Quadrants provide a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, where market growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct:

Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.

Visionaries understand where the market is going or have a vision for changing market rules, but do not yet execute well.

Niche Players focus successfully on a small segment, or are unfocused and do not out-innovate or outperform others.

Challengers execute well today or may dominate a large segment, but do not demonstrate an understanding of market direction.

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Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.

Within the report, Gartner states, “Advances in [...]]]> Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Santa Clara, CA , February 11, 2013

Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.

Within the report, Gartner states, “Advances in threats have driven mainstream firewall demand for next-generation firewall capabilities. Buyers should focus on the quality, not quantity, of the features and the R&D behind them. This market includes mature vendors and new entrants.”

“We believe Gartner’s report articulates the reasons why enterprises – en masse – are migrating to next-generation firewalls,” said René Bonvanie, chief marketing officer at Palo Alto Networks. “Our customers continue to advocate to their peers, stakeholders and the broader analyst community that Palo Alto Networks is the definitive leader in this transformed network security market.”

The report also reflects on the install and purchasing rates of next-generation firewalls by stating that, “Less than 10% of Internet connections today are secured using next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). By year-end 2014, this will rise to 35% of the installed base, with 60% of new purchases being NGFWs.”

Multinational semiconductor company improves business efficiency with faster application performance over distance

LONDON, 3rd January 2012—Silver Peak Systems, the leader in accelerating data over distance, has been selected by CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE), a global provider of innovative silicon and software platforms for consumer [...]]]>  

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Multinational semiconductor company improves business efficiency with faster application performance over distance

LONDON, 3^rd January 2012—Silver Peak Systems, the leader in accelerating data over distance, has been selected by CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE), a global provider of innovative silicon and software platforms for consumer electronics applications, to help improve the performance of interactive applications between the company’s network of global offices.

With its corporate headquarters in Cambridge, CSR relies heavily on centrally hosted services that require fast, reliable access at anytime from anywhere in the world. By deploying Silver Peak’s software-based acceleration at all 26 of its sites, covering around 2,100 employees across 10 countries, CSR has reduced network costs substantially and reduced network traffic significantly, ensuring a consistent application experience for all employees.

Following the acquisition of Expand Networks by Riverbed, CSR looked to Silver Peak’s platinum EMEA partner, Response Data Communications (RDC), for a new solution to improve application performance over distance.  Most notably, CSR needed to optimise the performance of various interactive applications, including Perforce, Microsoft file services (CIFS), and engineering design tools using CAD. Following a three month evaluation period between leading WAN Optimisation vendors, Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) software emerged as the clear choice for accelerating the CSR infrastructure, being added to the mix just four weeks before the end of the assessment process.

“With our business relying so heavily on instant access to centrally saved data, it is imperative that we minimise the amount of graphical data delivered across the WAN,” said Mark Taylor, senior support analyst at CSR. “The applications we use are essential to the quality of our work; therefore it is crucial that they are not impacted by other activities taking place in the same office, for example, another user downloading a large file over FTP. We tested a lot of solutions, with Silver Peak winning on performance. In fact, Silver Peak outperformed its competitors in 95 percent of the tests we ran.”

Silver Peak’s VXOA software was selected specifically for its excellent performance capabilities, in particular the deduplication algorithm and ability to manage the devices from a single pane of glass. It uses real-time network optimisation techniques to improve application performance over distance.  This includes Network Acceleration to overcome WAN latency, Network Integrity to correct packet delivery issues and prioritise time sensitive traffic, and Network Memory to maximise WAN bandwidth utilisation.

“Since deploying Silver Peak’s software, we are not only seeing significant improvements in application performance and file transfers, but we have saved administrative overhead by eliminating the need for dedicated proxy servers for our video streaming,” continued Taylor. “The support we have had from both Silver Peak and RDC has been first class.  Furthermore, we have seen a significant reduction in network related complaints, which is good news for our IT helpdesk and the productivity of our employees.”

“Organising and transferring large volumes of data is fast becoming a reality for international organisations, such as CSR,” said Jason Evans, managing director at Response Data Communications. “Silver Peak’s software overcomes common bandwidth, latency and packet loss issues, thus enabling organisations to quickly and effectively transfer large documents, without affecting the remote user experience – ensuring a rapid return on investment.”

Also… see what our customer had to say in the CSR case study! Click HERE

Response Data Communications (RDC), specialists in corporate communications and enterprise technology solutions, were today awarded Platinum-level partner status by Silver Peak Systems, the [...]]]> HOT OFF THE PRESS!

“Response Data Communications awarded prestigious status for its continued success in delivering Silver Peak Software-based WAN Optimisation solutions”

Response Data Communications (RDC), specialists in corporate communications and enterprise technology solutions, were today awarded Platinum-level partner status by Silver Peak Systems, the leader in accelerating data movement over distance. The platinum level designation recognises RDC’s six year commitment in delivering the industry’s highest-capacity and most cost-effective WAN optimisation and replication acceleration solutions.

RDC has embraced Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) software, which facilitates the highest-capacity and most cost-effective WAN optimisation deployments on a wide variety of industry standard hardware platforms and hypervisors. By having Silver Peak’s full range of physical and virtual WAN optimisation appliances in its growing portfolio, RDC enables its customers to quickly and easily optimise key business initiatives such as cloud computing, “big data” migration, data centre consolidation, disaster recovery, unified communications, and virtualisation. 

“Silver Peak’s VXOA software is making it easier and more cost-effective than ever to deploy WAN optimisation in the data centre, remote office and the cloud,” said Jason Evans, Managing Director, RDC. “With the widest range of best-in-class WAN optimisation products that complement our entire portfolio, Silver Peak is a strong enabler of our business. Silver Peak’s tightly integrated co-marketing and lead-generation processes further demonstrate a strong commitment to the success of our business.”

“The channel is 100% essential to our business and we are excited to be recognising RDC for its continued hard work in extending our solutions to enterprises throughout the UK” said Pierre Langlois, director of EMEA channel and strategic partners for Silver Peak. “Silver Peak’s breadth of physical and virtual appliances and flexible pricing options provide our partners with an enormous opportunity to help customers maximise the performance of their workloads while minimising IT costs.”

To download the full press release please click here

About Response Data Communications

For nearly two decades Response Data Communications, have been seamlessly delivering leading edge, secure, high performance, strategic business IT solutions to multi-site UK businesses with global operations. Celebrating both gold and platinum EMEA partner accreditations, they are recognised in the UK as a specialist reseller in corporate communications and enterprise IT infrastructure solutions. RDC have the knowledge and experience to ensure successful integration with existing environments, while maximising effectiveness, efficiency and profitability.

Working on a focused set of complementary IT technologies; WAN optimisation, next-generation storage, network visibility and management, unified communication, IP telephony, wireless security, data protection & analysis, cloud networking, firewalls and data centre networking, in partnership with their award-winning vendors.