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BRIDGEWORKS
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Kim William
Gordon, CEO of EDTech Research,
Dr. Timothy Schilbach, CEO of
Penacity, and Sally Kenyon Grant,
Vice President- Federal of Darktrace.
Left to right David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks
and Jamie Eykyn, Chairman of Bridgeworks, outside the
British Embassy in Washington DC
Technical at Caremark (CVS)
explains: “In our case, the
implementation of Bridgeworks’
technology was so successful that
we put it into production almost
immediately. Depending upon
network conditions, performance
was improved a minimum of 10
times and up to 50 times. We
achieved almost immediate ROI.
It has proven to be rock solid and
problem-free.”
A key aim was to spotlight the
support of the U.K. Government’s
Department of Defence and
Security Exports, (Department for
International Trade), and share
insights as an Export Champion
British Ambassador to the
United States, Dame Karen Pierce
was present to facilitate valuable
engagement with the U.S. Federal
agencies and U.K. technology
partners.
David Trossell, CEO and CTO of
Bridgeworks, explains: “We invited
our customers, OEM Partners,
such as Dell Technology and
IBM, Spectra Logic and our North
American Resellers and System
Integrators to share their successes
implementing our systems.”
Trossell explains: “We were able
to present solutions and deliverables
and translate those to future
business benefits for end users. “
Eykyn commends Trossell: “I am
not a technical man, but I have
always been interested in new
technology. With Bridgeworks
our WAN and data acceleration
products, our CEO and CTO David
Trossell, brought all his extensive
skills in the storage world to bear,
strongly supported by the IBM R&D
Storage Establishment at Hursley,
who confirmed the need for the
AI and machine learning based
products David developed and
which we now know as PortRockIT
and WANRockIT.”
AI: a force for good
Bridgeworks wanted to demonstrate
how artificial intelligence can
be used in industry and for the
good of mankind. They invited
an accredited group of speakers
who shared an advanced AI
for good roadmap for thoughtleadership across technology and
AI innovation. Speakers included:
Investec Bank used Bridgeworks’
WAN Acceleration solution
PORTRockIT - an AI, machine
learning and data parallelisation
technology to use more of their
existing bandwidth without having
to purchase larger network ‘pipes’.
Buying new network infrastructure
doesn’t necessarily increase
bandwidth utilisation. However, with
WAN Acceleration encrypted data
can be channelled to permit much
more of the existing bandwidth to be
fully utilised.
What it means in reality is that
Investec can now utilise more of its
actual bandwidth investment. The
benefits include faster application
response times, and faster decisionmaking – both of which can have
a positive impact on customer
experience. It also can enhance
internal business collaborations.
A McAfee Senior Storage
Engineer who works in cybersecurity firm McAfee’s Technology
Services Division and McAfee Cyber
adds: “What would have taken us a
year to transfer - you got transferred
for us in a week and a half”. The
rate of throughput was incredible.
PORTrockIT from Bridgeworks is
a ‘game changer’. I am a storage
engineer with limited networking
knowledge. I was able to configure
and deploy PORTrockIT in less than
2 hours”.
Bolstering cyber-security
Government, public sector, and
defence organisations can also
benefit from using WAN Acceleration
– even if they deploy SD-WANs,
which are great technology in
GPSJ
Security Centre – which is part of
GCHQ – says there is an enduring
and critical threat to the UK’s critical
infrastructure.
No matter what the threat is,
and no matter who the perpetrator
is, government and public sector
organisations can deploy WAN
Acceleration to accelerate the
backing up and restoring of critical,
sensitive, and encrypted data over
large distances. It also permits
the most sensitive data to be airgapped and stored anywhere in
the world, while enabling regulatory
compliance.
When data centres or disaster
recovery sites are located at
distance in different parts of the
world, data transfers can be
impacted by latency and packet
loss. With WAN Acceleration
they can be mitigated. WAN
Optimisation doesn’t go far enough
to address these issues, nor do
SD-WANs. They need a WAN
Acceleration overlay to increase their
performance.
At the end of the day, backup
systems can be rendered
inoperable with data being lost in
the process, and with this breach
your own government and public
sector organisation could also be
paralysed. It’s therefore wise to
ensure that your organisation invests
in technology that can enable it
to back up data in at 3 separate
and widely dispersed locations –
perhaps not even with the same
cloud service or hosting provider.
Moreover, WAN Acceleration
needn’t require a significant capital
expenditure. Much can be achieved
with its artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and data parellelisation
technology - accelerating your
WANs to bolster your cyber-security
and service continuity.
themselves. However, they can
significantly benefit from having a
WAN Acceleration overlay.
In November 2023, the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS) wrote that the United
States “remains the most highly
targeted country, with 46 percent
of ransomware attacks globally
L-R: David Trossell, British Ambassador to the
happening
againstDame
U.S. entities.”
United States,
Karen Pierce, Jamie Eykyn
While in the U.K, the National Cyber
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