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 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.
Posted by John Oh on Thu, 2011-04-21 18:05
After reading about the Open Compute Project, I couldn’t help but think that “engineers ain’t the only thing Facebook’s poaching from Google.” A few years ago, Google attracted quite a bit of attention for its paper, “The Datacenter as a Computer.” In the paper, Urs Holzle and a colleague wrote about building modular data center containers to perform warehouse-scale compute jobs efficiently while being as ‘cool as the other side of the pillow’ (both literally and figuratively).
After Google published its paper, you didn’t really hear about some company going out and scrapping their large data centers in favor of these modular containers. Nope. But, with this Open Compute Project, the entire world gets its hands on a web-scale computing platform without having to pray at the altar of modular containers.
Posted by John Oh on Fri, 2011-02-25 17:07
Our product head Haseeb Budhani (@InfinetaProductGuy on Twitter) wrote an op-ed piece for Data Center Knowledge entitled “Data Center Traffic Highlights WAN Optimization.” Unlike a lot of the familiar vendor-submitted editorials that poorly mask biases, Haseeb does a great job of genuinely educating the marketplace without strings attached – kind of the way journalism is supposed to be done.
Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Mon, 2011-02-21 17:09
One of the best parts of my job is meeting some incredibly smart people who are pushing the envelope at all levels of networking. Seeing new technologies in use at Google and Yahoo! is one thing, but meeting enterprise IT guys who are experimenting and actively deploying the likes of Hadoop and Cassandra to fulfill their internal customers’ “big data” needs is truly inspiring. To top it off, if these IT guys are deploying their Hadoop clusters across multiple data centers and are building their WAN infrastructure to support multi-terabyte data transfers per day, that’s just magical!
Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Tue, 2011-02-08 09:32
Don MacVittie, a former editor for a major IT industry publication, currently manages technical marketing initiatives at F5 Networks. My colleagues and I are regular readers of Don’s informative, timely, and (quite frankly) enjoyable articles.
Don recently wrote a piece on F5’s DevCentral site, in which he compared deduplication and compression, two data reduction technologies used by WAN optimization solutions, and how they are complementary. I presented similar content to our field guys back in October of 2010, and as we typically do, we recorded the session and shared it for the world to see. The video is linked below:
Posted by John Oh on Tue, 2010-10-26 10:42
This week, all of us involved with Infineta Systems are feeling pretty darn good. The dominant trade publication for IT infrastructure, Network World, just named us to its prestigious “25 New IT Companies to Watch” list.
Article here: “25 New IT Companies to Watch”
Slideshow here: “25 Hot Products From New IT Companies”
The most gratifying aspect of being named by Network World as one of the top startups is that we actually did not “chase it down.” In other words, we did not hire a PR agency, throw a ton of money at them and ask ‘em to go through the conventional routines of tracking edcals, contacting editors, and pitching Infineta down their throats. The opportunity to be considered and evaluated for the top 25 list was an inbound query.
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