Finance

In the world of finance low latency in IT infrastructure is critical. Institutional traders and analysts need real-time access to data. Financial assets can change value in a heartbeat and quick access leading to quick decisions, either manual or automated, often makes the difference in acceptable risk and profitability. Achieving the lowest latency has historically required building over-sized storage solutions with very high IOPS by way of vast numbers of disk drives. Today, these storage solutions are very expensive, have excess disk capacity, occupy a large footprint, cost large sums of money to manage and operate, and still may not deliver the desired performance. Alacritech’s ANX 1500 addresses the needs of the financial sector by:

• Dramatically reducing latency with Alacritech’s NFS Bridge™ technology. The ANX 1500 achieved the lowest reported ORT (Overall Response Time) published SPECsfs®2008_nfs.v3 test results. Reduced latency translates into faster access times to data for users. The ANX 1500 isn’t burdened with the processing overhead associated with NAS controllers so, it can focus solely on accelerating data in and out of its on-board caches to service users.
• Reducing overall storage footprint. Companies frequently resort to using large disk drive counts to increase aggregate IOPS and meet NAS performance goals. Unfortunately, most of the drives are underutilized, not taking full advantage of the available capacity. The ANX 1500 helps relieve the NAS of fulfilling NFS requests for data meaning that with far fewer requests require disk I/O. This allows an organization to reduce the number of disk drives needed and/or move to a more economical HDD technology.
• Extending the life of your current NAS. The ANX 1500 transparently slides into an existing NAS environment and is very simple to install, manage and operate. It requires significantly less power, space, cooling and capital than attempting to solve performance problems by continuously adding more NAS – and can have a large positive impact on CAPEX and OPEX budgets. By relieving the NAS of the burden of responding to NFS requests its life is extended, with added headroom to support more useable storage capacity, adequately protect this capacity, and provide better performance.