Customers are increasingly constrained by large transfers of data backup, long backup times to storage devices, and less efficient use of server resources as a result. System and database availability is heavily impacted during backup periods, and with the rapid growth of storage and the need to archive customer data, IT managers are actively seeking solutions for their backup problems.
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Improve Your Backup Server Performance with TOE Acceleration
Brief Summary ®In recent backup server tests with Alacritech Accelerators versus conventional NICs,Alacritech provided overall backup efficiencies including:. backup throughput performance improvements of 30%. substantial reduction of backup times . release of CPU resources for other tasks
Backup Servers - Improving Their Performance and EfficiencyCustomers are increasingly constrained by large transfers of data backup, long backup times to storage devices, and lessefficient use of server resources as a result. System and database availability is heavily impacted during backup periods,and with the rapid growth of storage and the need to archive customer data, IT managers are actively seeking solutionsfor their backup problems.
Alacritech Accelerator SolutionAlacritech Accelerators in backup servers today provide anincrease in throughput to storage devices processing large Figure 1MB/minamounts of data. In addition, server resources are returned for hadditional backup application processing. 1250 cetMedium to large IT departments have used Alacritech irbackup 1000 lAccelerators in their backup servers for both multi-streaming c ea tthroughput ltape devices as well as virtual and physical tape libraries. In 750 nIAimprovements configurations where multiple systems are archiving their datasimultaneously on a backup server with multiple tape drives, 500of 30% Alacritech offers immense benefits over conventional NICs in The Alacritech Accelerator increasesbackup and restore performance. throughput by 30% over the Intel NIC.
Head-to-Head Backup Server Performance TestsIn recent backup server tests with Alacritech versus conven-tional NICs, Alacritech increased backup performance sub- Figure 2CPU Usagestantially in megabytes per minute (MB/min). The test also (lower is better)showed a reduction in system CPU resources needed to run the 100%backup application, leaving resources to add even more tapedrives to the backup server to further reduce backup time ormanage storage growth. 75%CPU cycles lereduced Test Results t50% nThe chart in Figure 1 shows throughput results when running Iby 34% Veritas Backup Exec 9.0 using Intel PRO/1000T and Alacritech 25%1000x1 Server and Storage Accelerator against IBM LTO tape1drives . CPU cycles are substantially reduced byFigure 2 shows the CPU savings for each backup run. 34% with the Alacritech Accelerator.
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A comparison of the data shows Alacritech with a 30% increase in overall backup efficiency with industry standard soft-ware and high performance tape devices. Server environments with more efficient data sets can increase their over-all backup performance even more. Results from Computer Associates BrightStor Enterprise Backup, VERITASNetBackup, CommVault Galaxy and Legato NetWorker also show similar increases in backup performance. With addi-tional system performance tuning and configuration changes, even greater throughput and efficiencies could beachieved.
TOE Solutions From Alacritech Today's growing IT departments are constantly bombarded with new challenges in server growth, storage manage-ment and data migration. Data center resources are focused on the challenge of moving data to users that need itnow. This increased emphasis in data management has led CIOs, CTOs and other IT executives to look for networktechnologies for their servers that help them solve this increasingly difficult problem.
Alacritech is the pioneer in providing reliable and efficient data movement technologies for network accelerationTCP/IP today. Servers starved for network processing power and a need for better application performance should look no furtherOffload than the TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) capabilities provided by Alacritech Server and Storage Accelerators. This break-through technology has provided thousands of customers with efficient, high performance network interfaces thatEngine (TOE) focus on an IT department's need for better flow of data from the network to servers to storage and back.technology The power behind Alacritech's design is SLIC Technology®, a revolutionary way of taking network data andaccelerating it through servers. This solution gives servers the freedom to focus le... [download for more]
