Infineta Systems

Enterprises expect a level of certainty in all aspects of their business, particularly when it comes to business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) workflows such as replication. Because loss of critical data almost always translates directly to lost revenue, enterprises focus on reducing their recovery point objectives (RPOs) to as low as possible. To achieve an acceptable RPO, replication between data centers over the WAN must occur at very high speeds, with speeds reaching 10 Gbps rates for many large enterprises.

The challenge lies in keeping the overall cost of BCDR in check. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of stored data, and consequently the rate at which the business-critical portion of this data is replicated between data centers, is growing at a pace above and beyond the rate at which WAN infrastructure and operational costs are falling. This status quo is spiraling into a state of WAN resource rationing that is detrimental to the enterprise’s overall BCDR goals.

In the past, the only ways to address this high-speed replication problem have been to:

a) Upgrade WAN bandwidth and associated network infrastructure or,
b) Successively replicate less data as a percent of total data volume with the passage of time.

Now, large enterprises have a better choice. Infineta Systems’ groundbreaking inter-data center fabric acceleration solution, a key part of which is the company’s patent-pending Velocity Dedupe Engine™, delivers a concrete set of acceleration and data reduction capabilities to effectively reduce the WAN footprint of high speed replication workflows. The result is a highly optimized WAN that is able to support a much higher rate of replication traffic (up to 10x or higher improvement).

In addition to asynchronous replication, Infineta’s solution also effectively accelerates synchronous replication workflows, which are extremely sensitive to latency overheads and require high-priority processing.