Infineta Systems
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Infineta Systems is an Information Technology company that makes WAN optimization
products for high performance, latency-sensitive network applications. The company’s flagship product, the Data Mobility Switch (DMS), makes it possible for application throughput to exceed the nominal bandwidth of the link.
. Dr. Ramarao concluded that the computational resources, especially I/O operations and CPU cycles, associated with existing deduplication technologies would ultimately limit their scalability. He and Mr. Kanaya determined that new technologies would be required to address Big Data and they founded Infineta to develop the algorithms and hardware necessary. The company currently has six patents pending for the technology.
Infineta is headquartered in San Jose, California and has attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
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The DMS works by removing redundant data bytes from network flows, which allows the same information to be transferred across a link using only 10%-15% of the bytes otherwise required. This process is known as data deduplication
. The effect is that either the applications generating the data will respond by increasing performance, or, there will be a net decrease in the amount of WAN bandwidth those applications consume.
The product is also designed to addresses the long-standing issue of TCP performance on “LFNs” (Long Fat Network) so even unreduced data can achieve throughputs equivalent to the WAN bandwidth. To illustrate what this means, take the example of transferring a 2.5GB (20 billion bits) file from New York to Chicago (15 ms latency, 30 ms round-trip time
) over a 1Gbps link. With standard TCP, which uses a 64KB window size, the file transfer would take about 20 minutes. The theoretical maximum throughput is 1Gbps, or about 20 seconds. The DMS performs the transfer in 19.5 to 21 seconds.
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WAN Optimization
WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for increasing data-transfer efficiencies across wide-area networks. In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion , and it will grow to $4.4 billion according to Gartner, a technology research firm.The most common measures of...
products for high performance, latency-sensitive network applications. The company’s flagship product, the Data Mobility Switch (DMS), makes it possible for application throughput to exceed the nominal bandwidth of the link.
Company
Infineta was founded by Raj Kanaya, the CEO, and Dr. K.V.S. Ramarao, the CTO in order to address the business challenges facing large organizations in the era of Big DataBig data
Big data are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing...
. Dr. Ramarao concluded that the computational resources, especially I/O operations and CPU cycles, associated with existing deduplication technologies would ultimately limit their scalability. He and Mr. Kanaya determined that new technologies would be required to address Big Data and they founded Infineta to develop the algorithms and hardware necessary. The company currently has six patents pending for the technology.
Infineta is headquartered in San Jose, California and has attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
Products
Infineta launched its Data Mobility Switch in June 2011 after more than two years of development and extensive field trials. The DMS is the first WAN optimization technology to work at throughput rates of 10Gbps+. Infineta designed the product in FPGA hardware around a multi-Gigabit switch fabric to minimize latency. As a result, accelerated packets (that is, packets that are processed by the deduplication engine) average no more than 50 microseconds port-to-port latency. Unaccelerated packets are bridged through the system at wire speed. The company decided against designs based on software, large dictionaries, and existing deduplication algorithms because it found that the high operational overhead and latency introduced by these legacy technologies do not permit scaling on the level required for data center applications, which include replication, data migrations, and virtualizationVirtualization
Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources....
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The DMS works by removing redundant data bytes from network flows, which allows the same information to be transferred across a link using only 10%-15% of the bytes otherwise required. This process is known as data deduplication
Data deduplication
In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data. The technique is used to improve storage utilization and can also be applied to network data transfers to reduce the number of bytes that must be sent across a link...
. The effect is that either the applications generating the data will respond by increasing performance, or, there will be a net decrease in the amount of WAN bandwidth those applications consume.
The product is also designed to addresses the long-standing issue of TCP performance on “LFNs” (Long Fat Network) so even unreduced data can achieve throughputs equivalent to the WAN bandwidth. To illustrate what this means, take the example of transferring a 2.5GB (20 billion bits) file from New York to Chicago (15 ms latency, 30 ms round-trip time
Round-trip delay time
In telecommunications, the round-trip delay time or round-trip time is the length of time it takes for a signal to be sent plus the length of time it takes for an acknowledgment of that signal to be received...
) over a 1Gbps link. With standard TCP, which uses a 64KB window size, the file transfer would take about 20 minutes. The theoretical maximum throughput is 1Gbps, or about 20 seconds. The DMS performs the transfer in 19.5 to 21 seconds.
Competitors
Other vendors in the area of WAN optimization include AryakaAryaka
Aryaka is a technology company that provides cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration services. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California with development offices in Bangalore, India and has 100+ employees....
, Bluecoat
Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems Inc. is a network security and network management company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.It identifies itself as an application delivery network specialist...
, Cisco WAAS
Cisco
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, Exinda
Exinda
Exinda is a United States technology company that provides computer networking products and services. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Exinda delivers WAN optimization and network bandwidth management solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises....
, Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology is a technology company that specializes in improving the performance of networks and networked applications. It was founded May 23, 2002 by Jerry Kennelly and Steve McCanne in San Francisco, California where its world headquarters remains...
, Silver Peak Systems
Silver Peak Systems
Silver Peak Systems designs and manufactures WAN optimization products. Silver Peak's global headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California. Silver Peak was founded in 2004 by David Hughes, who holds a PhD from Wollongong University and has been awarded 35 patents...
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See also
- Data MigrationData migrationData migration is the process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems. Data migration is usually performed programmatically to achieve an automated migration, freeing up human resources from tedious tasks...
- WAN OptimizationWAN OptimizationWAN optimization is a collection of techniques for increasing data-transfer efficiencies across wide-area networks. In 2008, the WAN optimization market was estimated to be $1 billion , and it will grow to $4.4 billion according to Gartner, a technology research firm.The most common measures of...
- Network Latency
- Network CongestionNetwork congestionIn data networking and queueing theory, network congestion occurs when a link or node is carrying so much data that its quality of service deteriorates. Typical effects include queueing delay, packet loss or the blocking of new connections...