Infineta Joins NetApp Alliance Partner Program

Infineta Systems, Inc., provider of WAN optimization solutions for big traffic workflows,
announced its membership in the NetApp
Alliance Partner program.

Infineta’s solutions will enable NetApp customers
to speed up SnapMirror-based replication and SnapVault-based backup/recovery
workflows by up to 85%, reduce WAN bandwidth usage and make use
of cost-effective WAN alternatives (e.g. MPLS) for overall OpEx reduction.

Infineta’s Data Mobility Switch (DMS) is a WAN
optimization system that scales to multi-GB speeds, making it the
acceleration choice for next-generation data protection projects. The
deduplication feature available with the NetApp Data ONTAP operating
architecture is complemented by the data reduction benefits delivered by the
DMS, further reducing the WAN traffic footprint by as much as 85%.

Additionally, customers can protect their critical SnapMirror and SnapVault
traffic from the adverse impacts of WAN congestion and loss through the
special-purpose, highly tuned TCP optimization features available on the DMS,
enabling them to not only extend data protection workflows to longer distances,
but also make use of shared WANs, e.g. MPLS and IP-VPN.

"With enterprise data volumes
growing at a staggering pace, enterprises are hard-pressed to keep up with
growing WAN bandwidth requirements to meet their replication and backup needs,"
said Haseeb Budhani, CPO for Infineta Systems. "Upgrading WAN bandwidth is only a temporary solution to a growing
problem, and comes at a high price with diminishing returns. We are excited to
be working with NetApp to deliver a reliable way for customers to drive five
times more replication and backup traffic over their existing WANs, and enable
them to drive multi-Gigabit storage traffic over shared WANs, such as for MPLS."

Solutions brief describing the value delivered by Infineta and
NetApp