| Website | alacritech.com |
| Blog | alacritech.com/blog |
| @alacritech | |
| Category | Enterprise |
| Phone | 408.287.9997 |
| info@alacritech.com | |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Description | NFS Storage Accelerator |
Alacritech provides storage network acceleration solutions that dramatically improve the performance of the existing enterprise network storage infrastructure.
Alacritech eliminates corporate storage/NAS sprawl by extending the life of the enterprise’s existing storage framework while reducing the dependency on growing pools of over-provisioned and underutilized disk drives. Only Alacritech allows enterprises to drastically increase application performance without having to replace the investment made in the NFS-based storage network.
Alacritech was founded in 1997 by technology pioneer Larry Boucher, the author of the SCSI standard and founder of both Auspex and Adaptec. Larry and his team of fellow entrepreneurs foresaw the convergence of storage and networking and the large amount of processing power and bandwidth consumed when moving data across the network. To solve this problem, the team designed Dynamic TCP Offload and cast it into silicon and has now taken it a step further by leveraging this technology in the form of an NFS acceleration appliance. By applying its vision of accelerated storage/NAS solutions and leveraging its 54 patents in the area of network acceleration, Alacritech is redefining the next generation of enterprise storage, allowing companies to accelerate their existing storage/NAS infrastructure.
The ANX 1500 NFS Acceleration Appliance is a network storage throughput appliance that provides a dedicated performance layer to your existing network-attached storage (NAS). Rather than attempting to combine storage capacity with performance, the ANX 1500 increases the speed of data access and aggregate data throughput by working alongside NAS systems without requiring that enterprises replace their existing storage infrastructure or surrender ownership of mission-critical data.
The ANX 1500 just doesn’t cache hot data, it accelerates it! After all, what good are SSDs installed in NAS controllers if the underlying hardware architecture can’t accelerate I/O to the storage media? The ANX 1500’s caches are accessed with minimal system contention, data is served out via the 10GbE interfaces with minimal latency. And the ANX 1500 achieves the industry’s lowest reported ORT (Overall Response Time) based on the results of the industry standard SPEC® (System Performance Evaluation Cooperative) benchmark for NFS SPECsfs®2008 ORT of .92ms. The ANX 1500 is easy to install and on the first day of use, you’ll see the dramatic difference.
Key Benefits:
Proven Acceleration Technology. Two on-board Alacritech 10GbE accelerators featuring Alacritech’s custom ASIC designed for exceptional and efficient data transfer. On-board customizations for NFS processing and TCP offload, resulting in exceptionally high throughputs and low latencies with minimal impact on local processors.
Large Caching Capacity. Sitting behind Alacritech’s acceleration is 2 or 4TB of SSD capacity and 48GB of DRAM. The associated benefits include a scalable pay as you grow architecture and a large footprint that can serve most working sets, keeping your most active data in the caches.
Deployment Flexibility. The ANX 1500 is a customized write-through appliance that non-disruptively sits alongside any NFSv3 NAS infrastructure you have. A single ANX 1500 can be configured to support 1 to many NAS filers.
Simple Management. The ANX 1500 is easy to configure and manage through a simple user interface.
Cost Effective. The lowest cost per OP in the industry.
The ANX 1500 NFS Throughput Acceleration Appliance increases the speed of data access and aggregate data throughput by working alongside existing network-attached storage (NAS) systems.
