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HP WAN Accelerator Product Positioning

HP WAN Accelerator Product Positioning. Andrew Dutton Riverbed. Transition slide. Product Positioning. Remote Office Problems are Converging. Remote Office users want high-performance access to corporate data, but corporate IT wants to cut costs and needs to control and protect critical data

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HP WAN Accelerator Product Positioning

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  1. HP WAN AcceleratorProduct Positioning Andrew Dutton Riverbed

  2. Transition slide ProductPositioning

  3. Remote Office Problems are Converging Remote Office users want high-performance access to corporate data, but corporate IT wants to cut costs and needs to control and protect critical data • Storage Problems • Site consolidation of servers and storage • Need to connect islands of storage • Remote site backup • Application Problems • Web, Email, FTP, Notes, ERP, Database, etc. applications experience slow response times, and so are not often used – too slow • Networking Problems • Need “More Bandwidth” • Latency kills throughput

  4. Network-Centric Name: WAN Optimization Focus Network Compression QoS Measurement & Reporting TCP Optimization Key Shortcomings Bandwidth Not Enough Needs Disk for Big DataReduction Storage-Centric Name: WAFS, File caching Focus Copies of Files Locally Key Shortcomings Application-Specific Freshness Safety HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsRemote Office Solutions are Converging Application-Centric Name: Caching or Protocol Accelerators Focus • Speed up Specific Apps Key Shortcomings • Application-Specific • Multiple Boxes in the Branch • No Cross-App De-Duplication

  5. Network Compression TCP Optimization Measurement & Monitoring QoS Wide-area Data Services (WDS) Accelerating Applications over the Wide Area • Superset of Current Categories • Solves Remote Office Problems • Storage-oriented • Networking-oriented • Application Oriented “We reached the conclusion that WAFS must now be considered a subset of an even more encompassing category that we define here as Wide Area Data Services (WDS).”– Taneja Group HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsWDS--A Converged Category “It’s not just a file, network, or application problem; it’s a remote office problem” Network-Centric Storage-Centric • WAFS – File Caching Application-Centric • Web/Dynamic Caching • Mail Caching

  6. Wide-area data services (WDS) is an integrated approach Applications LAN-like WAN performance Networking Overcome bandwidth and latency constraints Storage Consolidate and simplify

  7. What are HP EFS WAN Accelerators? REMOTE SITES • IT Appliances built on HP ProLiant platforms • Solve critical remote office and wide-area network problems • Accelerate TCP traffic – CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, MAPI • Dual-port NIC fails through to wire on a failure; HA configurations supported • Deployed in Remote Site and Data Center in a peer-to-peer architecture – transparent to clients and servers WAN DATA CENTER DL380 WAN Accelerator WAN Accelerator Manager

  8. HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsOne product, many solutions HP EFS WAN Accelerators Application Acceleration Site Consolidation BandwidthOptimization • Backup • Replication • Windows File Sharing • NFS • Email • FTP • Web • ERP/CRM • Lotus Notes • Custom apps • File servers • Email servers • Filers • Remote storage • Tape backup equip. • Off-site media mgmt. • On-line backup • Outsourced services • Expand narrow links • Fill up LFNs • Avoid WAN upgrades • Reduce WAN bandwidth

  9. HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsWide Range of Application Support

  10. HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsHow fast? With HP EFS WAN Accelerator Without HP EFS WAN Accelerator Time to complete (in seconds) 1,000 CIFS 4 105 MAPI 8 180 HTTP 15.6 1,920 FTP 12 Better Worse CIFS Test: 12MB CAD drawing over 128Kbps linkMAPI Test: 4MB attachment over 512Kbps link HTTP Test: 26MB over 1.5Mbps linkFTP Test: 8MB over 1.5Mbps link

  11. How does HP EFS WAN Accelerators Provide WDS? • Accelerate TCP traffic over WANs – CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, MAPI • Enables site consolidation for servers & storage • Speeds up backup & replication over WANs • Increases capacity of low bandwidth WAN links • Increases utilization of high bandwidth WAN links • Completely transparent to clients and servers – preserves the client-server relationship • Use multiple technologies working together • Byte-level caching • Best-in-class compression / data reduction • Latency optimization • Predictive traffic analysis

  12. HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsFeatures and Benefits Value!

  13. HP WAN Accelerator Models

  14. HP StorageWorks (EFS) WAN AcceleratorsLAN-like application performance over the WAN HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) WAN Accelerators help customers put information to work by removing repetitive traffic and dramatically reducing latency effects on wide-area networks (WANs), delivering LAN-like performance for file, e-mail, web, and other TCP-based applications and protocols. Unlike WAN optimization products that focus solely on improving WAN bandwidth or on locally caching protocol-specific traffic, EFS WAN Accelerators deliver not only the industry’s highest bandwidth optimization for all TCP traffic, but work also address the effects of high latency on TCP and the applications that run on TCP. The IT appliances enable consolidation of distributed IT infrastructure from remote sites, resulting in savings by reducing equipment, IT staff needed, and the complexity of a global network.

  15. HP EFS WAN Accelerator EFS WAN Accelerator Appliances

  16. Customer Impact of WAN Accelerators Position EFS WAN Accelerators as a way to virtually extend the datacenter LAN to remote sites

  17. HP WAN Accelerators Management + hp

  18. HP EFS WAN Accelerators Management Features Overview • HP EFS WAN Accelerator Manager • Provides central management of up to 500 appliances • Provides fleet management • Monitors health, throughput & acceleration done • Performs SW updates to groups of nodes • Separate product packaged as an appliance • HP ProLiant management • Pre-installed agents for seamless integration into HP ProLiant environments • HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) • Full Integrated Lights-out (iLO) support

  19. HP WAN Accelerators Future Plans / Roadmaps + hp

  20. HP EFS WAN Accelerators Roadmap • Feb 2006 • Support for 4-port copper fail-through NIC • Support for 2-port fiber (SX) fail-through NIC • DL380-1010 and DL380-2010 models • Disk and power supply redundancy at lower cost • License upgrade SKUs • 5101010, 20102510, 30103510 • May 2006 • ProLiant DL320 G4 • DLxxx-10000 high-end model (155Mbps, 10k TCP connections) • DLxxx-100, DLxxx-200 SOHO models (512kbps and 25 or 75 TCP connections) • 2H 2006 • ProLiant DL380 G5 • V3 software update • NFS v3 over TCP and SSL protocol accelerations • Active/Active clustering • QoS enforcement • Print server • SDR Disk Encryption N4c NIC

  21. HP EFS WAN AcceleratorsAdditional information • HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services home page: http://www.hp.com/go/efs • Product information / FAQs • Product specs / Datasheet • Solution whitepapers • HP EFS WAN Accelerator Product Manager (UK) • Simon Brassington • simon.brassington@hp.com • Product URLs: • HP EFS WAN Accelerators: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/efswanaccelerator/index.html

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