SoftNAS has released SoftNAS® UltraFast™, an intelligent, self-tuning storage accelerator for wide area network (WAN) and the cloud. Performance improvements for use cases include:

• Faster offsite backups and retrieval of data via optimized S3 object storage
• High-performance S3 object storage access from on premise
• Replication between data centers over an enterprise WAN • Replication optimization for Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
• Master copy data management for global content publishing
• Disaster recovery to the cloud for quick synchronization of data from any source

SoftNAS UltraFast will be an add-on feature to the SoftNAS product portfolio. Benefits include:

• Ability to migrate data to the cloud: Optimize data streams for large-scale data transfers between geographically dispersed IT environments.
• Replicate data for disaster recovery: Replicate data to the cloud for cost-effective fail over.
• Integrate islands of data: Quickly transfer data among remote office, factories and corporate for big data analytics.
• Scheduled bandwidth throttling: Automatically regulate and prioritize network traffic and performance according to administrator-defined bandwidth limits and schedules.
• Leverage existing environment: Work with existing applications, storage (hardware and software) and networks to improve network efficiency without additional hardware.
• Increase bulk data transfer rate by up to 5 times: Speed transfers by up to five times (based on 1-4 GB file sizes across high quality networks (<0.1% packet loss)).
• Improve WAN link utilization up to 16 times over TCP alone, with 95% link efficiency: Overcome bandwidth degradation due to high round trip transfers over large geographic distances and packet losses from multiple routers (based on 1-4 GB file sizes across high quality networks (<0.1% packet loss)).

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