With UltraFast, SoftNAS Accelerates Data Movement for Geographically Dispersed Data

SoftNAS, LLC announced UltraFast, an intelligent, self-tuning storage accelerator for the WAN and cloud.

The company demonstrated how UltraFast overcomes latency, congestion, poor QoS, and slow data replication across any geographic distance without changes to applications, networking or storage systems, during AWS re:Invent events.

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Why: Performance improvements for use cases such as:

Faster offsite backups and retrieval of data via optimized S3 object storage
High-performance S3 object storage access from on premise
Replication between data centers over an enterprise WAN
Replication optimization for Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Master copy data management for global content publishing
DR to the cloud for quick synchronization of data from any source

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UltraFast will be add-on feature to company’s product portfolio. Benefits include:

Migrate data to the cloud: Optimize data streams for large-scale data transfers between geographically dispersed IT environments.
Replicate data for DR: Replicate data to the cloud for cost-effective fail over.
Integrate islands of data: Quickly transfer data among remote office, factories and corporate for big data analytics.
Scheduled bandwidth throttling: Automatically regulate and prioritize network traffic and performance according to administrator-defined bandwidth limits and schedules.
Leverage existing environment: Work with existing applications, storage (hardware and software) and networks to improve network efficiency without additional hardware.
Increase bulk data transfer rate by up to five times: Speed transfers by up to five times (based on 1-4GB file sizes across high quality networks (<0.1% packet loss)).

Improve WAN link utilization up to 16 times over TCP alone, with 95% link efficiency: Overcome bandwidth degradation due to high round trip transfers over large geographic distances and packet losses from multiple routers (based on 1-4GB file sizes across high quality networks (<0.1% packet loss)).

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