Category: WAN Optimisation
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“WANdisco is one of three vendors, along with Bridgeworks (network acceleration) and StorReduce (deduplication SW for the cloud) that Amazon rates as partners to be involved in moving enterprise IT estates (compute + storage) to the cloud” – Chris Mellor, The Register.
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…Bridgeworks has solved TSM performance issues for clients only 1 ms apart and using dark fibre pipes. They can now replicate cross-site, simultaneously over their old 10Gb pipes, not only saving a tonne of cash in the process but more importantly bringing their ability to recover well below their SLA’s (RTO).
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CCI’s Graham Jarvis looks at one of the threats datacentres can’t defend against, flooding, and demonstrates a way to carry on delivering a service even when your servers are 10 feet under water.
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Bridgeworks says it can make communicating with offsite tape libraries vastly faster than physically shipping tapes, and vastly cheaper if you are using a remote Fibre Channel SAN or site-to-site replication before transmitting data to the tape library. The basic pitch is: “Don’t do this. Send your data direct to a SCSI tape library interface…
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Graham Jarvis looks at the best way to move your desktop infrastructure to the cloud and looks at the options available in the virtual desktop market.
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“Bridgeworks has found way to improve wide area TCP/IP transmission of large, streamed files that compensates for packet loss, radically improving the performance of NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault which are hobbled by packet loss. It’s been working on the technology to virtualise a TCP/IP connection for several years…” Read the complete article by Chris Mellor.
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Bridgeworks launches transformational machine intelligence solution – PORTrockIT. Data accelerate your business and networks: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bridgeworks-launches-transformational-machine-solution-graham-jarvis?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish. Client: Bridgeworks. Date: 1st December 2015.
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Read Graham Jarvis’ articles in Facilities Manager magazine about what to do when two companies merge to achieve ‘ The Perfect Blend’ and to ‘Master the Art of Motivation.
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Graham Jarvis finds out how far away data centres need to be built to maintain a safe level of business continuity for all disaster types.
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Over a number of years there has been a long and hard fought battle to secure the ability to ‘accelerate anywhere’ any data type to, from and across a cloud area network (to allow fast access to applications, or to secure data as a part of a back-up and archiving strategy. According to Claire Buchanan,…

