Storage apps revved up to the power 10
Storage apps revved up to the power 10
Nov 04, 2004: NetEx has introduced a new storage application throughput accelerator that it claims can speed up storage applications across wide-area networks (WANs) by up to 1000 percent.
The Hyper Powered IP provides a WAN platform for accelerating a wide variety of storage applications, including EMC SRDF Adaptive Copy & SRDF/A, Veritas Volume Replicator/NetBackup, NetApp Snap Mirror & Snap/Vault/Lock, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and associated applications such as Oracle DB RSync, Microsoft Exchange and many others.
Hyper Powered IP leverages common IP networks while enabling high-speed connections up to OC12 –as much as a 1,000 percent increase in throughput for many applications. The new standard either works with or replaces existing high-speed storage transport products using the company’s IP acceleration technology, an appliance-based configuration that attaches to an existing network infrastructure and requires no changes to server and storage controllers, applications or network devices.
"Organisations seeking greater efficiency and additional IT cost containment should add NetEex to their short list," said Greg Schulz, senior analyst for Evaluator Group. "The capability to aggregate IP-based storage applications, running them at OC12 speeds concurrently, should solve WAN degradation issues, and the reduction of required WAN hardware and maintenance costs is attractive."
"Hyper Powered IP represents an order of magnitude improvement over antiquated ESCON-over-IP, slower FC/IP solutions and inefficient TCP/IP," said Robert MacIntyre, Vice President Business Development and Marketing at NetEx. “Because specialised and dedicated equipment is not needed in the Hyper Powered IP configuration, there is less hardware to purchase and maintain, eliminating not only additional infrastructure investment but also greatly reducing the cost of dedicated network management."
Hyper Powered IP is able to accelerate data rates and minimize degradation over distance by using compression with latency and packet loss elimination mitigation technologies. The NetEx solution automatically determines the appropriate data compresses data, ranging from 2:1 to 15:1, depending on the information being compressed, and aggregates the data blocks to the HyperIP-accelerated pipe. It shields the data from intermittent network variations thereby mitigating the need to restart critical data transfers.
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