SAN

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...

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:

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:

Recently, I had the opportunity to pitch our inter-data center WAN acceleration solution to the crème-de-la-crème of the Internet networking community a few weeks ago. These are the guys who run the infrastructure for household names in e-commerce, social networking, SaaS, and mobile ad platforms. Many of these folks buy bulk bandwidth (in a few cases, in the 10s of lambdas) for their larger data centers and, for these specific cases, will not expect to benefit in any significant way fromour solution’s data reduction capabilities.

Let me start off with some great news: We officially began demonstrating our solution’s capabilities to partners and customers last week. [A huge round of applause for our developers and QA engineers for a phenomenal achievement!]

Next month, Infineta Systems goes to New York City for the fall networking show, Interop. Our CEO will participate in a panel there on Oct. 21st – and maybe buy us some FDNY caps in Times Square. We’ll be meeting with some of the largest financial institutions in the world while we’re in town. Why is this an important trip for us? Let me explain.

Orbital Data, a WAN Optimization company I used to work at a while back, holds the distinction of being the first company to assert that “transparency” is a critical feature for acceleration solutions. Back then, Orbital Data and others in the WAN Optimization space were focused on the branch WAN, and not on the inter-data center WAN, but my old boss was definitely on the right track in terms of what matters to network engineers.