Vcinity’s corporate motto is “Shatter the Limits of Connectedness”.
Remember it, for we will revisit.
At Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day #23, I had the privilege, as a delegate to the event, of listening to a briefing by some VITOs from Vcinity.
* VITO: Very Important Top Officer.
What does Vcinity do.
Vcinity delivers users the ability to work on data-in-place over distance.
This came about from the challenges of having to collocate data with applications and users.
Mind you, the moving, caching, and copying of this data, has increased the cost of insights, reduced productivity, delay in decision making, and exposed organizations and people to unintended liabilities.
What Vcinity does is facilitate the consumption of data from wherever it is needed without network infrastructure constraints, and remove restrictions of latency caused by physical/network distance.
How does Vcinity do it?
The Vcinity Data Access Platform, or VDAP, enables applications to process data anywhere over any WAN (Microwave, IP, Satellite, 5G), such as video rendering, explain our approach to eliminating the effects of latency.
This is how Vcinity sees the ‘connected enterprise’.
Vcinity also operated via these “ground rules”:
No manipulation of data
No changes in application
No compression, no de-duplication
No software or agents to install
No WAN accelerators
No multi-site caching appliances
No changes on physical LAN
No copies of data
In order to do this, Vcinity possesses 32 patents covering the delivery of advanced capabilities critical to applications consuming data over WANs. (From their presentation.)
Moreover, this technology is well baked, having being in production for over ten years in the service of the US federal government, and evolving from a requirement to help high speed file movement to what it does now.
What it does
Vcinity users are able to access their data remotely without needing to make a copy of that data at the remote location, effectively removing the need for data and compute colocation.Users are also able to use cloud-based compute against local data, or vice versa.
And Vcinity works even over satellite links; for instance, sustaining 90%+ throughput over a 500 Mbps link that had a 500 ms latency!
Literally “shattering the limits of connectedness’!
Vcinity’s mission.
· Access data in real-time
· Accelerate cloud adoption
· Reduce cost and complexity
· Increase infrastructure ROI
· Deliver value – faster
· Keep data secure
As I see it
Vcinity enables new agility for firms using the product.
Users no longer have to be worried about the time to deployment of data access: it is always available. Heck, even compute is always available as the user can leverage cloud compute.
Security of data is now a breeze, and several scenarios come to mind for this product.
By allowing users to decouple data from compute, Vcinity allows enterprises to keep their data safe. This is a boon
The military must love it, as data can reside in their secure locations while users in stressful locations can act against that data.
Film producers no longer have to worry about copies of their products in the wild or in the hands of counterfeiters, as the data doesn’t move anywhere.
For companies deploying VDI solutions, Vcinity should provide both speed and security.
Even if data mobility is a must, Vcinity currently has the only known solution that would allow for the movement of 1 petabyte of data in less than 24 hours.
Connection utilization is also vastly improved, as pipes are actually filled at high capacity.
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