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 Ashwath Kakhandiki on Mon, 2012-03-26 16:11
Infineta will be a beehive of activity this coming Thursday. We will be testing our technical mettle in front of a number of bloggers who will be visiting our offices as part of Gestalt IT’s Networking Field Day (NFD). NFD, as most of you may know, is a unique event that connects select IT product vendors and independent thought leaders. We will showcase our Big Traffic WAN optimization solutions to a group of networking gurus who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves, take the covers off our award-winning technology, and ask probing questions. This is going to be a no holds barred, no-fluff session that couldn’t be more different than your typical marketing event.
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 Ashish Shah on Wed, 2011-11-02 10:09
I met with a prospective customer last week that happens to be one of the largest Internet portals in the world, with tens of data centers across the US as well as in Europe and Asia. One would think that with such an expansive infrastructure, some form of WAN optimization solution would already be in place across data centers. When I asked which WAN optimization solution they had deployed to date, the chief network architect laughed at me and said: “We have over 100Gbps connectivity between most of our data centers. There’s no way we would deploy hundreds of 1Gbps-capable devices at each site!” He then went on to tell us his previous experience with other WAN optimization solutions, and how he bought a pair from a vendor and was using them to decorate the storage shelves in his lab.
Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Wed, 2011-10-19 09:35
Big Data is hot. A number of startups have been funded to explore Big Data opportunities. Even Oracle recently announced its entry into the Big Data ring.
Giants such as Oracle and EMC don’t enter a new category unless they can sell their solutions to large enterprises and make obscene profits. In return for all the money that enterprises pay out for these solutions, they expect them to scale and be highly available.
Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Sat, 2011-10-08 19:13
I had the privilege of participating in a debate-style session titled “What are the Next Steps for WAN Optimization?” at Interop earlier this week. Jim Metzler, an independent industry analyst, hosted the event and kept the other panelists and me on our toes. A very engaged and tech-savvy audience enriched the discussion through relevant questions.
The way the debate played out, plus my subsequent conversations with some folks from the audience, underscored two key points:
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