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A Blog about a Blog, Is that Allowed?

Posted by Marketing

This weeks blog is about a blog post by Justin Paul, a systems engineer from SMS proTech who focuses on virtualization, storage, and backup applications.

Justin was recently working with a customer who was trying to replicate large amounts of data with limited replication windows and a limited amount of bandwidth.  The customer was using Veeam’s Backup & Replication software.

The big question they were confronted with was whether to add more bandwidth to meet the increasing data demands of replication or as an alternative leverage a WAN Optimization solution with the Veeam application in order to better utilize the existing WAN infrastructure.

Fortunately for the customer, they decided to try HyperIP WAN Optimization Virtual Appliance software with Veeam’s Backup & Replication software. The results speak for themselves.

Here’s a link to Justin’s IT Blog post, we thought it was well written and very informative.

Justin blogs are personal in nature and do not reflect the views of SMS proTech.   Can’t be all that bad for a guy who collects vintage Mustang cars, makes his own beer and is not a stranger to putting in long hours and hard work. Here’s more about Justin’s Bio.

We appreciate the blog….

 

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Goes together like PB & J

Posted by Marketing

Here is a brief success story about a Financial Services Company that uses HyperIP WAN Optimization virtual appliance to optimize their Veeam Backup & Replication.

The company uses a DS3 circuit between data centers and carves out an 8 Mb MPLS circuit for replication and SQL log file transfers. Packet loss and excessive latency was causing poor application performance.

From a high level standpoint, they wanted to improve Veeam Backup & Replication performance, reduce bandwidth costs by using their existing WAN more efficiently, and provide a disaster recovery program that they could rely upon.

HyperIP was downloaded from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM) and installed on two existing VMware servers. In a very short period of time the customer’s IT architect installed HyperIP  and shortly thereafter was optimizing the Veeam Backup & Replication. Citrix WANscaler was also tested but the customer selected HyperIP for a variety of reasons:

Using a virtual infrastructure and virtual appliance provided ease of deployment, low cost of deployment, ease of integration into the existing infrastructure and the speed of deployment for newly created virtual machines.

For this customer it was extremely important that HyperIP was certified as VMware Ready versus other products. Customer Quotation – IT Infrastructure engineer:

“HyperIP did what I needed it to do at a fraction of the cost of the competition. Ease of implementation, good documentation, and pleasant experiences with support. HyperIP reduced the time to replicate VMware VMs by more than 80% while using less bandwidth. It was easy to implement due to good documentation and responsive tech support. The cost of increasing bandwidth was significantly higher than the cost of HyperIP.”

So with HyperIP and Veeam Backup & Replication this company has a replication (disaster recovery) solution they are happy with, are getting better WAN throughput and performance and are reducing costs by leveraging their existing infrastructure.

Download and test HyperIP for yourself at – http://www.netex.com/hyperip/evaluation-request

Portions of this case study are sourced from:
TechValidate Survey of a Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company
http://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/netex-hyperip/case-studies/FDC-B76-71E

 

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HyperIP Series – You asked about Backup…

Posted by DaveHuhne

Backing up your data to a remote site is a business necessity. The method or design of your backup solution will be dependent on your requirements and whose system you own. Things like backup window, WAN, de-dupe, distance and incrementals all come into play when making purchase decisions for a backup solution. So why do I need a WAN Accelerator? My storage backup system de-dupes and compresses the data before sending it to its remote DR site. If I install a WAN Accelerator will it provide any additional value? Will data be further reduced after dedup and how much will my application throughput increase?

These are great questions but first you will have to determine if there is a bottleneck in your network. My backups don’t complete on time, why? My backup application throughput is low, why? I can only backup certain servers per night or my backup fills the window and I have new servers arriving as we speak. I can’t keep up so what should I do to solve the issue?

I can buy more bandwidth, increase the buffers in my switches, make the TCP windows bigger. Some of these remedies are expensive, take time or maybe I can’t make changes to the network? A plausible alternative is to test a WAN Accelerator.

HyperIP WAN Optimization virtual appliance helps alleviate many network issues that cause poor application performance and throughput over WANs. The software doesn’t care that your backup system data has been prior de-duped and/or compressed. The software uses an adaptive compression algorithm and will attempt to further reduce deduped data if at all possible. Compression is only one feature of the software that improves application performance. TCP transfers will also be affected by any number of network issues including congestion, jitter, latency, and packet loss. A minimal amount of packet loss can reduce effective throughput by half. Any resulting retransmits will further consume your bandwidth into making you believe your WAN utilization is high when in fact you are really only moving a fraction of the real data. HyperIP shields TCP applications from network issues allowing the maximize throughput.

So back to the question “What data reduction will I get with HyperIP”? The answer is HyperIP will manage the network so that the maximum throughput will be achieved as long as the application can deliver the required data to fill the pipe. As an example we have customers whose backup windows have gone from 24+ hours down to single digits. A recent Veeam customer reduced their backup window from 15 hours to 3 hours with HyperIP. CLICK HERE to see the Veeam / HyperIP success story.

Obviously every backup environment is different but downloading and testing HyperIP for yourself is quick and easy and could save you a lot of time.

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Nothing Like a Tasty Hot Dog at the Ballpark…

Posted by Marketing

We love talking about our customer success stories.

Below is a brief success story about Ovations Food Services. They deliver fresh food and beverages to public assembly facilities throughout the United States and Canada. They specialize in providing food services to stadiums, arenas, convention centers, fairgrounds, expo-centers, auto racing, casinos, performing arts centers and amphitheaters.

With multiple locations in North America, Ovations uses Veeam’s Backup & Replication to replicate integral virtual machines between Philadelphia and Tampa, all over a 20 Mb/s WAN. They replicate approximately 10 GB/s daily however at times were seeing replications take over 15 hours to complete for a single virtual machine. Ovations needed help.

The Veeam Backup & Replication application was experiencing degraded performance due to high latency and packet loss on the WAN. Backup windows were difficult to achieve and the WAN was not used as efficiently as it could. Not the fault of the Veeam application.

So what happened?

Ovations was already a Veeam customer and decided to test the HyperIP Virtual Appliance via a 30 day evaluation from the NetEx website; http://netex.com/eval. HyperIP was implemented in a very short period of time and almost instantly Veeam’s Backup & Replication application throughput improved by 7x. This allowed Ovations to reduce their replication window from 15 hours to 3 hours.

Ovations considered WAN optimization solutions from both Blue Coat & Riverbed, but decided their virtual appliance solutions were too expensive and the virtual machine footprints for these solutions required too many system resources when compared to the thin footprint of the HyperIP.

HyperIP exceeded Ovation’s expectations for their replication requirement. Not only is HyperIP aggregating the transfer of Veeam but other important applications as well. HyperIP is great at shielding applications from network issues that would normally degrade transfer performance and throughput.

Another happy HyperIP customer.

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Riverbed Asked the Question, HyperIP Responded…

Posted by Marketing

In a recent blog Riverbed challenged other WAN optimization vendors to answer the question “Do competitors’ products work as well as Riverbed?” Well, since they asked, the answer is yes. In fact, HyperIP WAN Optimization virtual appliance works better than Riverbed.

First off, Riverbed poses the question of WAN optimization support for all important applications. We find it somewhat humorous that Riverbed would ask such a question about competitors’ application support when HyperIP has long set the standard in the industry for the broadest support in accelerating critical replication and backup applications of any WAN optimizer and does this with a virtual appliance (software). HyperIP accelerates replication applications from CA, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, Quantum, Veeam and many more. A full list of supported applications can be found at http://www.netex.com/hyperip/supported-applications. In addition, NetEx is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and HyperIP is ideal for supercharging vMotion and Storage vMotion migration over the WAN. HyperIP also supports Hyper-V live migrations over the WAN.

Riverbed also asked if other vendor’s products are useful for all their requirements. This is probably the wrong question to ask, as many customers don’t have a critical need to accelerate the movement of Microsoft Office documents between a central data center and branch offices. Or speed up their VOIP apps. Most companies don’t want to pay for products that they will not use. A better question is to ask how a product performs for business critical replication and disaster recovery requirements to meet specific Recovery Time Objectives.

Assuming that its products are the only WAN optimizers that people actually like, Riverbed then wants to know if other customers are happy with the vendor’s products. Well, I can’t speak for other companies but I know NetEx customers are very happy with HyperIP. In fact, more and more of our customers are choosing HyperIP over Riverbed. Take a look at our TechValidate research page for HyperIP customer testimonials. You’ll seem that many customers tried Riverbed and selected HyperIP instead.

Finally, Riverbed makes the claim that less-expensive products aren’t up to the task and wonders why competitive products are cheaper in the first place? With HyperIP by NetEx the answer is simple. HyperIP is deployed as a software-only virtual appliance running on VMware. There is no need for customers to waste precious IT budget dollars on expensive, proprietary Riverbed hardware that can’t be upgraded or installed in minutes anywhere in the world. Riverbed needs to understand that the purchase price isn’t the only component of product cost equation. HyperIP allows users to migrate to higher network speeds with a simple software key upgrade, no forklift hardware upgrade, no waiting weeks or months to get the hardware appliance ordered, delivered, installed and configured. To answer Riverbed’s question, HyperIP is a cost-effective WAN Optimization solution that was designed to deliver the performance of a hardware WAN optimizer but with the customer cost savings of server virtualization and the deployment speed, simplicity and flexibility of a virtual server appliance.

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