improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources alacritech news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message alacritech type private industry network storage founded 1997 headquarters san jose california u.s. key people larry boucher founder president and ceo products storage network acceleration website alacritech.com alacritech was a silicon valley company which marketed intelligent network interface cards nics to offload tcp ip processing from the cpu of computer systems to dedicated hardware on the nic a concept now known as a tcp offload engine toe . later it manufactured storage network products . alacritech s main products were the anx 1500 series of network throughput acceleration appliances . contents 1 history 2 appliances 3 termination 4 references 5 external links history edit alacritech was founded in 1997 by larry boucher the author of the scsi standard and founder of both auspex systems and adaptec . the company s network interface cards nics were promoted for enhanced performance by moving some tcp ip processing from the cpu to the nic . in 2004 alacritech sued microsoft and broadcom for patent infringement . the suits were settled in 2005 with both companies agreeing to license the alacritech patents . citation needed in 2008 alacritech decided that the toe nic business was not sufficient to sustain a viably growing company and changed its focus to leveraging this technology for accelerating of network attached storage nas resulting in the development of the anx series of appliances . appliances edit the anx 1500 throughput acceleration appliance supported tcp ip nfs dhcp and 10gbe standards and features 48gb of dram and up to 4tb of solid state drives . the anx 1500 caches active data stemming from client requests such as frequent access of the same payload data or nfs metadata and optimizes performance through the use of tcp and nfs offload technology embedded in alacritech s custom silicon . the anx 1500 has a two tiered caching system that provides record performance by accelerating read and nfs metadata intensive ops greatly reducing the burden on existing nas devices and enabling better write performance and scalability . with a performance layer based on frequency of use nfs ops are maximized resulting in reduced traffic on backend nas servers and a dramatic reduction in total iops required and storage drives needed from back end storage . the anx 1500 accelerates nfs throughput and enhances the performance of existing nas boxes . a single anx 1500 with 4tb of ssds can deliver 120 000 nfs specsfs2008 operations per second ops and an ort of .92 ms and only requires 1 5 of the nas infrastructure otherwise required to deliver the comparable nfs ops performance . the appliance allows enterprises to achieve significantly higher disk utilization using 80 percent of available disk space versus the current standard of 20 percent in performance environments . 1 termination edit the company did not achieve sufficient sales of the anx product line to sustain ongoing operations and development and was essentially shut down in november 2013 . the company website currently notes that the anx product line is no longer being manufactured but provides links for support of existing installations . references edit alacritech debuts accelerated nas . storage bytes now . external links edit alacritech inc. website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alacritech & oldid 739879724 categories networking companies of the united stateshidden categories articles needing additional references from october 2015all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from october 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilityall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what 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