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A publication of Network Executive Software, Inc. (NetEx)
In this issue:
- Announcing HyperIP Data Replication Optimizer (DRO) Version 5.3
- Time-of-Day Rate Limiting Feature Added in HyperIP DRO Version 5.4
- NetEx Receives Industry Praise, Awards and Endorsements for HyperIP
- EarthLink Completes 60 TB Coast-to-Coast Email Migration with HyperIP
- Broadview Networks Saves Money and Simplifies Operations with HyperIP
- Telstra Builds New Data Backbone Network with HyperIP
- Global Energy Company Accelerates Multi-Vendor Data Replication for BC/DR
- World’s Largest Enterprise Storage Company Resells NetEx's HyperIP DRO
- NetEx Becomes Network Appliance (NetApp) Advantage Partner
- IBM Approves HyperIP for TotalStorage Proven Program
- NetEx Adds More Supported Data Replication Applications for HyperIP
- Let us know what YOU think and you could win an Apple iPod mini!
- Contact NetEx about saving you time and money while protecting more data
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Announcing HyperIP Data Replication Optimization (DRO) Version 5.3 NetEx enhances award-winning HyperIP and pronounces Fibre Channel (FC) over IP WAN obsolete! NetEx released version 5.3 of HyperIP DRO, the industry’s first Data Replication Optimizer (DRO), enabling maximum data replication acceleration over existing Gigabit Ethernet & TCP/IP networks and providing an alternative to expensive and complex Fibre Channel over IP WAN technologies. HyperIP eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional TCP/IP-based networks by accelerating leading data replication applications critical to supporting business continuity and disaster recovery compliance and ensuring these applications are consistently completed on time. Data replication optimization substantially improves end-to-end performance and minimizes the risk of non-compliance, compared with costly and complex Fibre Channel WAN products. HyperIP works with leading data replication application vendors, including EMC, NetApp and Symantec (VERITAS) to boost effective data throughput ranging from 300 to 1000 percent depending on the application, distance and network environment. Time-of-Day Rate Limiting Feature Added in HyperIP DRO 5.4
NetEx responds to customer requests with “Time-of-Day”Rate Limiting feature in next software release version 5.4 As customers implement their information life cycle management (ILM) strategies, they are particularly interested in creating a multi-tiered data availability and protection policy that matches the needs of their specific applications. These policies include pulling together multiple vendors’storage replication applications (or methods) which are normally distributed throughout their geographically dispersed locations. As companies “ditch”their proprietary networks in order to converge all their network communications onto a single protocol (IP), storage replication applications must also adjust to this trend just like other traffic (voice, video and data) to take advantage of the inherent cost and operating advantages of a single network protocol. But with this convergence brings a new level of challenges for applications that weren’t designed to co-exist with other applications or run over extended distances. NetEx has responded to our customers' requests with a new feature for HyperIP DRO that enables network and storage managers to implement bandwidth “rate limiting”feature by time-of-day. Now bandwidth hungry data replication applications (like disk mirroring and tape backups) can be “throttled”based on the time of available of bandwidth. For example, companies can accelerate tape backup traffic during off hours when normal client interactive traffic is less intensive. This protects time sensitive applications from being “over-run”by applications that normally demand large, dedicated bandwidth. This is just one example of how NetEx is optimizing data replication applications for our customers! NetEx Receives Industry Praise, Awards and Endorsements for HyperIP
HyperIP receives Product of the Year from Storage Magazine and Highest Rating from InfoWorld
NetEx was one of the top winners of the “2004 Products of the Year”award presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com as its HyperIP® storage appliance received the silver award in the competition’s networking equipment category. NetEx’s HyperIP was honored based on its innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value as judged by the TechTarget Storage Media Group editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. “HyperIP solves a costly market problem,”said one judge who goes on to say, “It’s a unique product that is very easy to use and manage. The value is exceptional.” NetEx also achieved the “Excellent”designation for its HyperIP storage appliance in a standalone review published in InfoWorld. This is the highest rating bestowed upon products evaluated by the magazine’s Test Center. In the article “HyperIP boosts data-replication efficiency –NetEx appliance speeds storage transfers across noisy WAN links,”IT consultant Logan Harbaugh praised the HyperIP’s functionality in “counteracting the effects of latency over a WAN link; compressing data at the block level; and increasing the tolerance of TCP applications for latency, jitter, bit error rate, and bandwidth variation.” Read more about HyperIP being name “Product of the Year Award”by Storage Magazine
Read more about HyperIP receiving the “Excellent”designation by InfoWorld
EarthLink Completes 60 TB Coast-to-Coast Email Migration using NetEx’s HyperIP
Coast-to-coast data migration solution using EMC’s SRDF over IP/MPLS Internet backbone achieves 50% performance improvement to reach theoretical maximum with HyperIP NetEx and EMC recently completed a 60 terabyte email migration project for EarthLink (NASDAQ:
ELNK), the nation’s next generation Internet service provider. The project leveraged NetEx’s HyperIP DRO
(Data Replication Optimizer) to accelerate the performance of EMC’s Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) over
the Internet. EarthLink’s Mail Storage Consolidation project consisted of relocating more than nine million
mailboxes from Pasadena, Calif., to their Atlanta data center during a single overnight window. EarthLink accomplished
their migration by implementing a cross-country Gigabit Ethernet solution that combined HyperIP and SRDF to move the
data over their production 800 Mbps IP/MPLS Internet backbone. Broadview Networks Saves Money and Simplifies Operations with HyperIP
HyperIP delivers TCO benefits, simplified operations, increased storage utilization for electronically integrated communications provider (e-ICP) between New York and Pennsylvania Broadview Networks has implemented HyperIP to accelerate backup and replication operations between facilities in New York City and Pennsylvania. In this application, HyperIP enables Broadview Networks to seamlessly deploy a redundant, highly scaleable and highly available replication solution that allows the communications company to achieve substantial TCO benefits associated with increased application throughput and significantly reduced session transfers. Read more about how Broadview Networks saves time and money with HyperIP Download
the PDF of the Broadview Networks case study Telstra Builds New Data Backbone Network with HyperIP
HyperIP accelerates new data backbone network including future storage networking and disaster recovery applications Telstra—Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company—will use its HyperIP application accelerator to provide fully redundant failover support for Telstra's new data backbone network linking Melbourne and Sydney. Telstra will use the new network for segregating bulk data traffic from interactive traffic to eliminate congestion and delays and improve user productivity. While immediate plans will focus on transmission of Oracle database updates with FTP, Telstra plans to use the network technology to support future storage networking and disaster recovery applications. Read more about how Telstra accelerated their new data backbone with HyperIP
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the PDF of the International Telco case study Global Energy Company Accelerates Multi-Vendor Data Replication for BC/DR
HyperIP accelerates multi-vendor storage replication applications to deliver business continuance and disaster recovery over existing IP infrastructure A large, global energy company has selected HyperIP to accelerate their multi-vendor storage replication applications in order to deliver business continuity and disaster recovery services over their existing IP infrastructure. With diverse business operations scattered throughout the world, the company sought a data protection strategy that could scale to meet a broad range of technical and operational requirements. The company needed to replicate critical data between their geographically distributed locations independent of server or storage platforms. The initial phase of the solution concentrated on accelerating traffic between the company’s data centers within the United States for supporting multiple storage replication applications such as NSI Software’s Double-Take, NetApp’s SnapMirror and EMC’s Centera Replication utilizing their existing IP infrastructure. Read more about how this leading global energy company supports their BC/DR requirements World’s Largest Enterprise Storage Company Resells HyperIP
Customers and resellers can now purchase HyperIP directly from EMC Corporation via their Select program The EMC Select program brings customers and resellers the best-in-class products that complete storage infrastructure solutions and helps them implement information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies. In response to customer requests, EMC can now act as a single source for the total storage solution. Purchasers can get a single point of contact—and a new level of confidence. With the EMC Select program, both direct and indirect sales channels can provide a portfolio of reliable "solution completer" hardware products that have been rigorously tested for interoperability. The EMC Select partners offer a wide range of high-quality products that complement and complete EMC end-to-end storage solutions—including tape libraries, host bus adapters (HBAs), connectivity products (i.e. HyperIP), NAS software, security and more. This select group of carefully screened premium vendors also provides exceptional service and support for these products, and works closely with EMC to meet customer’s needs. Read more about NetEx HyperIP DRO being available directly from EMC Read more
about the EMC Select partner program NetEx Joins Network Appliance (NetApp) Advantage Partner Partner program yields improved BC/DR solutions with 300% improvement of SnapMirror and SnapVault data replication performance across IP WAN NetEx has become a member of the NetApp® Partner Program which enables NetApp and NetEx to certify and support each company’s solutions for the benefit of customer data management needs. By joining the NetApp Partner Program, NetEx’s HyperIP Data Replication Optimizer (DRO) appliance will be tested and validated with NetApp unified storage systems and replication applications like SnapMirror and SnapVault to help ensure they deliver truly integrated solutions that simplify customer data management challenges. NetEx's participation in the NetApp partner program will allow customers to reduce the complexity, cost and management required for data replication infrastructures. Read about NetEx becoming a NetApp Advantage Partner IBM Approves HyperIP for TotalStorage Proven Program
NetEx’s HyperIP earns IBM TotalStorage Proven Status with Comprehensive level rating NetEx’s HyperIP has successfully passed compatibility testing with qualified IBM storage products, earning a “Comprehensive”rating from the IBM TotalStorage® Proven™ program. HyperIP was tested with an IBM DS4300 (FAStT600) storage device and Cisco 5428 iSCSI router for iSCSI protocol validation. The testing also included an IBM NAS500 Gateway network attached storage device attached to the IBM DS4300 for NFS and CIFS protocol validation. HyperIP was installed in the test network by following the provided HyperStart installation steps. To achieve the “Comprehensive”rating, the HyperIP was additionally tested with the inclusion of packet loss conditions during data transfer, verifying the integrity of the data written to storage, and in a 72-hour stress test. Read more about HyperIP’s acceptance into IBM TotalStorage Proven Program NetEx Adds More Supported Data Replication Applications for HyperIP
HyperIP continues to lead storage industry for the most complete data replication application support Working closely with their partners and customers, NetEx continues to lead the industry by testing and qualifying the most comprehensive list of storage replication applications. These “best-of-breed”enterprise storage hardware and software companies such as EMC, NetApp and VERITAS (now Symantec) continue to work closely with NetEx to insure their applications can take advantage of HyperIP’s award winning performance, ease of implementation and cost saving advantages. NetEx continues to solicit suggestions from customers and partners of other applications to test interoperability and performance improvement. Please use the convenient link below to submit your request. Download the PDF of the HyperIP Qualification Support Matrix Submit request to NetEx for qualifying additional storage replication applications In order to increase our focus on our customers and partners, we solicit your ideas and suggestions on ways we can improve on our communication process with each of you! Please visit us on our website to let us know what YOU think! All guests to our website are encouraged to register to win an iPod mini to be given away each month!
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