WAN Specialist Replify Announces New Network Caching Technology



Belfast, Northern Ireland-/Wi-Fi Technology News/- Replify, the WAN optimization and application acceleration software firm today announced a new bi-directional network caching technology that results in a massive reduction in file transfer time over wide area networks.

Replify has now embedded its latest cross-protocol data reduction technology (XDR) in its Reptor application acceleration solution. XDR means that identical or updated blocks of data will be sent only as references across network connections. From the remote network user perspective this results in vastly improved download times and performance increases by orders of magnitude over 2,000 times ? depending on the specific applications.

Replify launched its Reptor server-side virtual appliance, branch office and client suite of products earlier in the year. The announcement that the Reptor solution now embraces its latest bi-directional network caching along with data reduction technology means that Replify?s solution offers significantly increased performance and implementation benefits to customers compared to current hardware based offerings. Virtualization also means that Replify?s solution is available at a very attractive, per-seat, price point.

According to Kevin Donaghy, CEO of Replify, ?Our software-based approach obviates the need for capital intensive, high maintenance hardware, meaning that the solution is substantially more attractive for corporate decision-makers. As we develop more ways of freeing up network resource and accelerating applications, new features can be easily and immediately available as software upgrades. With hardware based solutions new product features take much longer to make it to the user base. Our XDR technology is a case in point. It?s already in our evaluation software and is available for download today.?

Wesley Darlington, Replify?s CTO, explains that XDR is yet another important milestone in the Reptor product development. ?Our intention in developing the Reptor suite was to make application acceleration more available and more powerful. To date, WAN optimization and application acceleration has not been made universally available in many companies that have adopted it. This is because hardware solutions don?t scale that well and are expensive. Our approach is simpler. We make available an enterprise instance of our solution meaning that everyone in the company can have faster apps across the VPN. So as we roll out new technologies like XDR it ripples across the organisation ? from the data centre to branch office to mobile user. Today we?re seeing hundreds of times performance improvement; but we?re not stopping there and as we squeeze more and more performance out of the network everyone benefits.?

Replify?s virtual appliance and client-side software, incorporating XDR bi-directional data reduction technology, is available to download for trial today. Network managers can see for themselves the improvements that can be achieved through Replify?s Reptor solution by visiting http://www.replify.com/downloads

About Replify:

Replify was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company?s objective was to be the first to develop an all-software based WAN optimisation solution that would exceed hardware based performance. The Replify principal management team has gained considerable experience developing and bringing to market WAN optimisation products at both Swan Labs and F5 Networks. Now the team is focusing on the next generation of WAN optimisation and intends to make Replify a global player in software solutions.

Further information about Replify and its products can be found at http://www.replify.com