Nov 2015 Webinar: Introduction to FileCatalyst v3.6

Webinar: An Introduction to FileCatalyst Direct v3.6Nov 19, 2015 at 11:00AM Eastern Time

© Copyright FileCatalyst, 2015

Presenter

John Tkaczewski, President and Co-Founder

FileCatalyst / Unlimi-Tech


Agenda• What is FileCatalyst?

• File Transfer Issues with TCP

• Acceleration with FileCatalyst

• Speed Improvements with FileCatalyst

• Welcome to FileCatalyst Direct v3.6

• Major new features

• Demo

• Review Release Notes

• Questions


What is FileCatalyst?

FileCatalyst transfers files at full link speed:

UDP with proprietary retransmission and congestion control

Patented algorithm built from the ground up in-house

Transfer rates up to 10Gbps (with encryption) using commodity hardware

Not affected by latency and speed degrades, linearly with packet loss

Ability to fully leverage multi-core CPU architecture

Integration with leading Cloud Storage like Amazon S3


File transfer Issues with TCP

• Flow control limits transmission window, causes dead air with high latency

• Very aggressive in response to network congestion, cannot tune in application layer

• Result is less than ideal performance on wireless, satellite, or long haul links

• Can be tuned but still not ideal for many-one, one-many

TCP is a very serial process. Each packet of data must be received before a new packet is sent = Decreased transfer speed

Source FileDestination

File

Acknowledgments

Data Packet


Acceleration with FileCatalyst

• Ideal for bulk file transfer

• Predictable - Can send at a perfect rate

• Not affected by latency or packet loss

• Congestion Control implemented in application layer

• Tunable congestion control aggression

• Instantly detect link capacity

Source FileDestination

File

Acknowledgments

FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by

sending multiple blocks of data = Increased

transfer speed


Speed improvement with FileCatalyst


FileCatalyst Direct v3.6


FileCatalyst Direct v3.6

• 3.5 was released in July, 3.6 is scheduled for release in about 2 weeks

• 17 New features

• Over 80 bug fixes

• See releasenotes.html


FileCatalyst Direct v3.6List of Major new Features:

• Ability to send e-mail Link directly from FileCatalyst Server. (separate video to be posted soon)

• Cloud Integration S3 much faster, Azure Blob Storage, OpenStack (Dec 2015)

• Allow server home directories for S3 and Azure to include credentials (pass through)

• Better support for Growing Files. Ability to re-transfer file headers & footers as post-

task operation

• Directory streaming (unlimited directory size) available in CLI with multi-client.

• Improved discovery and install of TransferAgent

• Configuration settings exposed in Express for site manager


Demo


Questions?

Nov 2015 Webinar: Introduction to FileCatalyst v3.6

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