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Bridgeworks Launching PORTrockIT for NetApp WAN Replication

"Up to 90x faster" over noisy networks

Data acceleration and self-configuring infrastructure optimized network (SCION) vendor, Bridgeworks Ltd announces the launch of PORTrockIT for NetApp, Inc.

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Utilizing artificial intelligence, PORTrockIT optimizes WAN settings to provide  adaptive acceleration that improves the efficiency of NetApp SnapMirror replication, SnapVault archiving and Cloud ONTAP data migration in multiple cloud configurations.

Combining NetApp’s data replication technology with PORTrockIT Data Acceleration enables performance and resilience for WAN data transfers. WANs have inherent latency and packet loss, which may diminish effectiveness of data replication, migration or hybrid cloud connectivity. Bridgeworks’ invisible, painless approach to data acceleration, mitigates the effect of WAN latency and packet loss with performance gains of up to 90 times to that of a high latency, noisy WAN.

Growing data volumes combined with network latency and packet loss, may lead to sluggish transfer times over WAN locations. Businesses need to be able to ensure fast data movement to protect their organizations and to create corporate resilience, business and IT service continuity.

PORTrockIT technology works in the background for NetApp customers. Once installed, no user intervention, configuration or maintenance is required.

David Trossell, CEO, Bridgeworks said: “In a perfect world there is no packet loss, no latency and infinite bandwidth and in these conditions NetApp customers experience efficient replication. However, networking complexity is on a rapid rise resulting in more flaws such as noise, latency and dropped packets. By combining our technologies, NetApp SnapMirror and Bridgeworks PORTrockIT customers can enjoy successful data replication processes even in noisy and high latency wide area networks that can span the globe.

Accelerated and un-accelerated performance with 0.5% packet loss at various levels of latency (source: Test Results provided by Trace 3, Inc. and Agilesys, Inc. Proving the concept of accelerated NetApp SnapMirror replication with PORTrockIT whitepaper)

After completing testing by a third party, Bridgeworks (A NetApp Alliance Partner), has made a whitepaper that proves the concept of accelerated NetApp SnapMirror replication with PORTrockIT

In parallel, SnapMirror replication testing was carried out between Cloud ONTAP instances in Sydney and North Virginia where PORTrockIT doubled the performance over high latency and extreme congestion.

Artificial Intelligence accelerates WAN without compromising on security
There is a transition taking place. Data is often unstructured, even when it’s sent back and forth over a WAN. Data is quite often compressed in some way by a vendor or from applications such as video codecs.

It may also be encrypted for security reasons. “The traditional ways of trying to accelerate this type of data no longer apply – traditional WAN Optimization just doesn’t work“, emphasised Trossell.

For NetApp customers that were previously experiencing challenges caused by IP packet loss and latency, PORTrockIT for NetApp can help them overcome these obstacles.

Bridgework’s PORTrockIT compliments NetApp’s Data Fabric strategy by accelerating data replication between locations“, said Bruce Burns, VP, NetApp cloud business group. “Customers can now gain greater speed and efficiency in rapidly moving data across network locations even over long haul or poor quality wide area network lines.”

Trossell concludes: “PORTrockIT for NetApp using adaptive acceleration is completely transparent to the infrastructure: the Virtual Instances or Appliances are simply installed, taking under 30 minutes to complete.

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