Storage company Netex has unveiled a software solution that it says will remove some of the risk involved with transferring large amounts of data.
The HyperIP R5 data transport solution was the subject of a product flash from research company International Data Corporation (IDC), which described the product as "an improved solution to reliably and safely move large data over wide area IP".
IDC senior research analyst Sterling Perrin, who worked on the report, says the HyperIP software running on a Linux appliance will "bring together techniques that will create an increasingly needed solution, as storage continues to be `networked` and the interconnect transport is increasingly over IP and Ethernet".
The HyperIP product could potentially play a significant role in future, provided there is sufficient interoperability, says Perrin. "We think...it will play an increasingly critical role in complex storage systems, dependent more on the glue between storage elements than on the elements themselves for overall performance."
Netex claims HyperIP can expand the performance envelope over IP-based WANs up to 480Mbps - more than twice the speed of the previous HyperIP release.
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