January 2012

Why Networks Matter in Big Data and Cloud

Data growth is clearly out of control. A stupendous 1.8 zettabytes of digitized information exists today –a 9x increase in stored data within the last 5 years alone. With data growing at ever-increasing rates, the question being asked is: How is all this data to be stored and moved around? Is current technology up to the task, or does it need a major overhaul?

Our CEO, Raj Kanaya, considers these questions in a phenomenal guest blog on Silicon Angle. The entire post is available here. Happy reading!

Ashwath Kakhandiki is Director of Marketing at Infineta Systems

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Patent # 8,078,593: Dictionary Architecture and Methodology for Revision-tolerant Data De-duplication

I must confess - I was quite surprised when this deduplication (“dedupe”) related patent was granted barely two years after we filed it! That too in a field littered with patent applications – every other company seems to have filed one (and in some cases, many more).

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