Avere in Hybrid Storage Solution Cloud NAS

Avere Systems, Inc. announced Avere Cloud NAS, a solution that changes the economics and functionality of storage for the cloud era.

It enables companies to leverage public and private storage clouds for workloads previously limited to high performance storage systems.

Bridging the Gap Between Cloud Economics and Performance
Enterprises understand the potential economics provided by cloud storage, but limitations such as an unfamiliar object interface, unreliable performance due to high latency and concerns regarding availability of data have prevented many from taking advantage of the cost savings that the cloud offers. This solution helps enterprises overcome these hurdles by providing a purpose-built enterprise solution that integrates their existing storage systems with the cloud without sacrificing the performance, availability or security of their data.

“We have decades of media assets that we must store, representing petabytes of data,” said Steve Kowalski, VP of systems engineering, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. “Avere cloud NAS presents an opportunity to reduce the cost and footprint associated with this type of storage and in conjunction with a company whose products we know and trust.“

FlashCloud Software for Amazon S3 and Glacier Access Provides One View of Files
A component of Cloud NAS is the introduction of the FlashCloud software that integrates legacy NAS with Amazon S3 and Glacier services into a single global namespace that presents a unified view of all files via NAS protocols

FlashCloud running on FXT Edge filers ensures:

• Scalable performance guarantees there is sufficient CPU and network IO for applications.

• Scalable capacity enables a large working set of active data, up to 450TB, to be stored on the enterprise premise to ensure a high ‘hit rate’ and low latency access to data.

• Clustering for HA ensures that data is always available even in the presence of network outages and other failures.

“Avere has always been on the forefront of pushing the boundaries of file storage performance and efficiency. Avere cloud NAS is a natural evolution of the product, advancing the adoption of cloud storage for serious business use cases,” said Terri McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “This latest offering provides that critical link for enterprise customers to utilize the cloud so they can reduce capital and operational expenses while benefitting from Avere’s benefit of scale out and scale up performance.”

Flexibility for Movement and Migration Between Coud and Legacy NAS Storage
In conjunction with FlashCloud, existing Avere products such as FlashMove and FlashMirror provide a path for moving online, live data to and from the cloud without disruption. Data can also be moved between cloud providers or mirrored to another location to mitigate the risk of a service outage.

“We are currently working with customers who have massive amounts of data who had never thought it was possible to leverage the cloud for more than a fraction of their storage,” said Ron Bianchini, Avere president and CEO. “Avere cloud NAS eliminates the most serious technological challenges these customers face with moving to the cloud. Moreover, the combination of Avere with Amazon Web Services offerings gives them an enormous cost advantage over traditional storage models and allows them to bend the data center cost curve.“