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Founded in 1997 by network storage pioneer Larry Boucher and
group of respected storage executives, Alacritech sets new records for the
delivery of increasing amounts of enterprise cloud, video and other rich
application data. The company‘s first NFS Acceleration appliance, the ANX
1500, mitigates Network Attached Storage (NAS) sprawl and dramatically improves
the performance of NFS infrastructures, and does so without requiring the
replacement of existing ecosystems or the surrender of ownership of
mission-critical data. The ANX 1500 pays for itself faster than any other
storage infrastructure solution and provides by far the lowest cost per
operations per second (OPS). The company holds 54 patents and has received $34
million in funding. Alacritech can be found at www.alacritech.com
see
also:-
Alacritech
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in January 2011 -
Alacritech
launched
the ANX
1500 ($70,000 base price) - a 2U
fat flash
SSD ASAP optimized
for the NAS market - which
the company claims can deliver 120,000 NFS OPS when configured with 48GB of
DRAM and up to 4TB flash SSD.
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When Alacritech
launched its TCP/IP
and SCSI offload accelerator in 2001 - it was one of
nearly 10 companies
which had similar high hopes for the iSCSI accelerator market.
In those days it was assumed that the processing overhead would lead to poor
performance and that servers would need accelerator cards to provide adequate
performance. Nowadays - because of
SSD
CPU equivalence the most cost effective way to accelerate apps performance
is to integrate SSDs. | |
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