Targeting large enterprise customers with its Velocity Dedupe Engine, In this Database Knowledge article, Infineta is saying that the Velocity Dedupe Engine is the industry’s first hardware-based reduction technology for data center-to-data center traffic.
“Targeting large enterprise customers, Infineta hopes to enable a global area network of pooled resources, building a inter-data center fabric. A company sponsored study completed by Forrester showed large enterprises with $1 billion or more in revenues will experience at least a doubling or tripling of their data center-to-data center traffic in the next 2-4 years.
“James continues to explain the three methods used by Infineta – hardware based on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array ), fixed-sized, full packet block size, bounded index exploiting locality and heuristic signatures.”