Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Tue, 2012-05-08 15:18
As I read the successive (and so incredibly well written!) blogs about Infineta’s presentation at Networking Field Day # 3, its clear why people seem to be avidly reading these deeply technical blogs, but hate to read white papers from industry analysts.
Posted by David Swenson on Thu, 2012-04-26 11:55
We do a lot of interoperability and performance testing, and this often involves schlepping a bunch of equipment to the partner or OEM site. Here in Silicon Valley, the facility may be just a few miles away so we drive, and that means packing up a bunch of moving cartons with servers, WAN emulators, and of course the two DMS systems. Today we were packing up after completing some tests and one of their QA guys who was helping commented on how light the DMS was, especially compared with all the servers that we needed to generate the +40Gbps flows.
“RAM,” I told him. “Our algorithm is really efficient.”
Huh? What does a little math formula have to do with the weight of our network deduplication switch?
Here’s the backstory...
Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Fri, 2012-03-30 13:44
As Ashwath mentioned in his blog a few days ago, we were scheduled to present to Tech Field Day delegates yesterday (March 29). The event was streamed live from our site, and snippets of the presentations will be made available on the same page within a few days.
In looking through the Twitter feed for #NFD3 yesterday, I saw some quotable and humorous quotes that I’m reproducing below:
Posted by Umair Hoodbhoy on Fri, 2011-12-30 13:12
2011 has been a memorable year here at Infineta. Here are a few things that come to the top of my mind:
Posted by David Swenson on Tue, 2011-12-13 15:53
Big Data implementations such as Hadoop are becoming more common, and as they do, organizations are discovering that Big Data drives Big Traffic. Ashish Shah has written a great piece on this subject, available here: Wikibon.
Over the next five years, machine-to-machine traffic between data centers (over Data Center Interconnects, or DCIs) is expected to increase faster than traffic within data centers, forcing organizations to respond by implementing multiple 10 Gbps WAN links. In most cases, however, simply scaling up the WAN infrastructure is a weak long-term strategy. Instead, keeping pace with DCI traffic requires a new class of WAN optimization technologies that can scale to 10Gbps speeds while introducing minimum latency to the end-to-end workflow.
Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Fri, 2011-11-04 08:40
You are a key member of a network team managing a critical set of data centers, and are constantly dealing with replication, backup or virtualization related issues across the WAN. You would like to learn more about WAN optimization but simply don’t have time for some slick sales guy to come in and talk about “the importance of WAN optimization solution agility” or “how you can accelerate ALL your applications.” You just want something that addresses the inter-data center WAN issues you are dealing with today and want to ask very specific questions without all the “So when will you have budget for this project?” pressure.
If you live in the SF Bay Area, there are two awesome shows that Infineta will be participating in, where our technical experts will be present to answer all your questions. The events are:
Posted by Raj Kanaya on Sun, 2011-06-05 21:33
It’s been more than two years since we started Infineta Systems. In those early days, we looked carefully at the state of the WAN optimization market and compared that with the needs of the market, today and in the future. What we discovered was a disconnect – the market was changing fast and existing vendors were “locked in” to architectures which would struggle to keep up. And to make matters worse, this disconnect was going to be greater in the future.
From a market perspective, we talk about a myriad of growth drivers for Hyperscale WAN optimization – replication, backup, virtualization, scale-out applications, cloud computing. But even more fundamentally, the growth in the market is anchored by the explosion in data. And for that data to be useful, it needs to be moved, which puts the network front and center.
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