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Five Reasons You Need Effective WAN Optimization for Cloud Storage
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Feb 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Cloud storage is positioned to be one of the hottest IT trends of
2012. At the same time network WAN performance has been identified as
a key inhibitor to cloud storage adoption, according to NetEx(R), a
leading company providing a WAN optimization virtual appliance
solution.
Unstructured data growth is far outpacing line speed improvements and
the cost to achieve LAN-like speeds over Wide Area Network
connections to cloud storage sites negates any cost savings that
migrating terabytes of storage to the cloud can achieve.
Here are five reasons why WAN optimization is a necessary component
of any cloud storage initiative:
1. Provides the necessary acceleration to make cloud storage viable
for backup, replication and disaster recovery.
Performance can make
or break a cloud storage operation. Despite the economic benefits,
the service only makes sense if users can get their data with
response times that do not impact productivity. And the only
cost-effective way to implement this is with WAN optimization. A
collection of network issues -- bandwidth restrictions, network
latency, poor line quality and network errors slow down access times
to cloud storage repositories to the point that the economic model
breaks down and it becomes more cost-efficient because of application
performance to store data locally. The performance boost of WAN
optimization restores the economic advantage for cloud storage.
2. Virtual WAN optimizers are an ideal fit for cloud infrastructure.
Data center-to-data center backup and replication is giving way to
data center-to-cloud data movement. One of the hallmarks of cloud
storage repositories is a highly-virtualized infrastructure.
Virtualization of servers and storage provides the agility to
accommodate rapidly changing workloads and to quickly spin up new
virtual servers and virtual WAN optimization appliances to handle
dynamic migration, replication and DR operations. Instead of
requiring expensive proprietary hardware platforms with associated
support and spare parts costs, WAN optimization virtual appliances
can quickly and simply be deployed on a cloud provider's standardized
commodity hardware, allowing the WAN optimization appliance to be
immediately provisioned at the cloud location.
3. Performance Scalability.
Closely tied to the flexibility
provided by a virtualized infrastructure is the ability of a WAN
optimizer to provide scalable performance across a range of dynamic
workload and data recovery requirements. For cloud storage to be
effective the data has to be at the right place at the right time.
This can be a costly exercise for Managed Service Providers who fail
to meet Service Level Agreements because of data delivery shortfalls.
Companies need to look for WAN optimizers that can scale performance
to 1 Gbps or more without requiring the rip and replace upgrades and
installation of a new physical appliance at each end of a WAN
connection. This is another area where virtual WAN optimization
appliances carry a clear advantage.
4. Application Support.
Cloud storage is increasingly used as a
disaster recovery site so it is essential that a cloud-centric WAN
optimizer provide broad support for the leading DR, backup/recovery
and replication applications. When deploying WAN optimization for
cloud storage it isn't enough to simply optimize the line between a
data center and the cloud but to enable application optimization with
support for applications such as EMC SRDF and Data Domain
Replication, VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion, Symantec NetBackup,
Replication Exec, Volume Replicator, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager,
Veeam Backup & Replication and more.
5. Optimizes the economic benefits cloud storage.
Companies are
turning to cloud storage for the economic advantage of utility
storage instead of the higher capital and operational costs of
building and managing remote data centers. However, the cost benefits
can quickly be consumed by the expenses of high bandwidth required to
move mountains of data when confronted with the low line utilization
and performance limitations of conventional TCP/IP connections. For a
modest incremental cost, WAN optimizers intelligently manage the data
transfers to maximize line utilization. Add in adaptive block level
data reduction compression functionality of advanced WAN optimizers
and you get a speed boost of 10x or more freeing replication and DR
applications to run at line speeds. The bandwidth savings alone can
cover the cost of a WAN optimization solution in less than three
months, meeting today's IT mantra of doing more with less.
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About NetEx
NetEx has provided high-end networking tools for over
25 years to some of the world's largest and most sophisticated
organizations. Today, NetEx focuses on HyperIP virtual
appliance-based WAN optimization software that is affordable and
practical for solving WAN throughput issues for users, solution
providers and IT service companies. The company is based in
Minneapolis, MN. For more information about NetEx, visit
www.netex.com or call +1-763-694-4300.
Network Executive Software, NetEx and HyperIP are trademarks of
NetEx. All others are trademarks or trade names of their respective
owners.
CONTACT CLIENT:
Robert MacIntyre
NetEx
763-694-4300
Email Contact
CONTACT AGENCY:
Mark Smith
JPR Communications
818-884-8282
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SOURCE: NetEx
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