MSNBC.COM Selects Silver Peak for WAN Acceleration

SANTA CLARA, CA, Jan 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Silver Peak Systems (www.silver-peak.com), a leading provider of scalable Wide
Area Network (WAN)
acceleration solutions, today announced that msnbc.com has selected Silver
Peak NX appliances to accelerate Structured Query Language (SQL) log
transfers between core facilities, resulting in 25 times performance
improvements and
93 percent better utilization across the company's WAN.

"Poor WAN performance was causing our data replication processes to
routinely fall behind schedule," said Doug Shore, msnbc.com IT Director. "WAN
acceleration proved key to maintaining the company's stringent Recovery Point
Objectives, while maximizing the performance of other key business
applications."

The Silver Peak solution is optimized to support large networks,
deliveringthe best performance on high capacity WAN links and across many
distributedenterprise locations. Silver Peak offers the industry's premier
solution for
disk-based data reduction -- Network Memory(TM) -- which reduces over 93
percent of WAN traffic and ensures LAN-like application performance across
the WAN by eliminating the transfer of duplicate data. Network Memory works
on all enterprise applications, regardless of transport protocol (TCP, UDP or
proprietary) or latency requirements. As a result, Silver Peak is commonly
used to accelerate a variety of business critical applications, including
real-timedata replication, remote backup, SQL, file, email, web, Voice over IP
(VoIP)
and streaming video.

About msnbc.com

Msnbc.com delivers a fuller spectrum of news. Drawing on its
award-winningoriginal journalism, NBC News heritage, trusted sources and
Microsoft's advanced
technologies, the site presents compelling, diverse and visually-engaging
stories on the consumer's platform of choice. Based in Redmond, WA,
msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and NBC Universal
(NYSE: GE).

About Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Silver Peak improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers
and
facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving
application performance across the Wide Area Network (WAN). The company's NX
appliances deliver exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented
security
and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication,
backup, file transfers, email, web and real-time applications such as Citrix and
VoIP. For more information, visit http://www.silver-peak.com/infocenter

NOTE: Silver Peak Systems, the Silver Peak logo, Network Memory and Silver
Peak
NX Series are trademarks of Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Contacts:

Jeff Aaron
Silver Peak Systems
(408) 935-1840
jaaron@silver-peak.com

Lori Bertelli
Bertelli Group
(916) 669-8834
lbertelli@bertelligroup.com

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