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 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 Ashwath Kakhandiki on Tue, 2011-12-13 10:40
“Big Data” is one of the hottest buzzwords in IT today, with its promise of deriving previously-untapped business value from unstructured data stored throughout the enterprise. How Big Data’s unique scale-out architecture enables unprecedented pricing and storage is well understood, but what has not been understood as well are the implications for the WAN. Infineta worked with IRG to test the following hypothesis: The adoption of Big Data will bring the enterprise WAN to its knees. The research – announced today - led to a number of eye-opening findings around how companies are thinking about, and implementing, Big Data.
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 Haseeb Budhani on Sun, 2011-06-05 17:02
Before each customer deployment, our sales engineers work with the customer to fill out what we call a “Pre-site Survey,” where we collect information such as network diagrams, deployment and security concerns and any application-specific gotchas. Naturally, the most important metric we discuss with customers is their criteria for success, and we make sure that we “sell” the solution in terms of the outcomes that the customer is interested in.
In a recent customer discussion, the customer shared the following information:
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 Wed, 2011-02-16 09:27
I used to love watching “A” Team reruns when I was a kid. I always loved how the team would design some ingenious contraptions using “off the shelf” items and take down much larger opponents. My favorite part in every episode was when Hannibal Smith would light up a cigar towards the end and say: “I love it when a plan comes together.”
Our in-field trials are progressing extremely well, and we are successfully proving our performance claims in customer environments. The sales team is keeping us all extremely busy with customer meetings and the interest level is rising steadily.
If you have any specific queries for any of us here at Infineta, please feel free to drop me an email (haseeb at infineta dot com) and I’ll be happy to get your question(s) addressed.
I love it when a plan comes together. :-)
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