Infineta Systems, the first and only provider of WAN optimization systems for Big Traffic workflows, today announced that it has received a patent (U.S. No. 8,078,593) for its ground-breaking deduplication (?dedupe?) technology from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent captures Infineta?s considerable research towards a massively parallel dedupe algorithm that can be implemented with significantly less computational complexity compared to the prior art while making optimal use of available I/O bandwidth. The patented technology serves as the basis for Infineta?s flagship WAN optimization product, the Data Mobility Switch (DMS).

?WAN-based replication of large data sets is forcing WAN optimization data rates to climb into the 10s of gigabits/sec,? said Joe Skorupa, Research VP Data Center Convergence at Gartner. ?As a result, deduplication algorithms that cost-effectively scale to very high data rates will be critical to enable business continuity/disaster recovery.?

Infineta?s newly awarded patent represents an important breakthrough in WAN optimization technology for Big Traffic workflows that traverse enterprise WAN networks. With enterprise data sets reaching aggregate volumes in the 100s of terabytes to petabytes, and storage needs doubling every year, there is a dire need for scalable WAN optimization solutions to accelerate the large volumes of data being transferred between data centers.  Read more...