Alacritech unveils network acceleration appliance

SAN JOSE, USA: Alacritech, a TCP/IP acceleration technology licence fee stream company, unveiled its network acceleration appliance, ANX 1500, which as per the company will improve the performance of storage infrastructures while substantially mitigating network attached storage (NAS) sprawl.

The ANX 1500 is an NFS throughput acceleration appliance based on the company's patented NFS Bridge data caching technology.

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The company claims that the ANX 1500 is the first and only storage product to materially accelerate the performance of an existing storage network without requiring enterprises to replace infrastructure or surrender ownership of mission-critical data.

The company also claims that the product pays for itself faster than any other storage solution and provides by far the lowest cost per operations per second (OPS).

i.e. a single ANX 1500, with 4TB of SSDs, can deliver 120,000 NFS operations per second for just $110,000 and only require 1/5 of the NAS infrastructure otherwise required to deliver the comparable NFS OPS performance. Most environments using the ANX 1500 will note substantially improved response times regardless of their NAS investment.

“Large, unstructured file growth has taken the current enterprise storage environment to the precipice of inefficiency,” said Boucher, CEO, Alacritech. “Until now, companies have been cobbling together solutions that require more and more drives, yet result in unpredictable and poor performance, greater complexity, increased latency and reduced control. They also risk data loss, have to turn ownership of their data over to outsiders, and in the end, pay more for their trouble. We saw an opportunity to change ‘business as usual’.