Results tagged "Avere"
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Finding New Ways To Boost Storage Performance
September 03, 2013 01:42 PM
Storage was a hot topic at VMworld, but storage innovation isn't just about virtualization. Violin Memory, Skyera and Avere showcased novel approaches to accelerate storage.Avere, Fujitsu Team Up for New Storage Offering
October 19, 2012 09:04 PM
Avere and Fujitsu are partnering to build a 100TB, 100,000 IOPS storage system that will sell for $100,000.Avere Systems Upgrades NAS Appliance Line To Deliver More 'Horsepower'
April 12, 2011 08:00 AM
Network-attached storage (NAS) vendor Avere Systems has added to its FXT line of NAS appliances with two new models that feature faster Intel Xeon quad-core processors, more DRAM capacity and both 1Gbit Ethernet and 10Gbit Ethernet ports. An industry analyst says that the new models represent a "horsepower bump" for Avere and can be paired with a customer's existing NAS appliances to deliver an extra storage tier and provide scale-out capability to handle growing data storage needs.The SNW Report: Lots Of Flash, Cache Is King
April 11, 2011 07:00 AM
This week I kicked off my spring trade show and conference season at Storage Network World at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was the first time in recent memory that the show was in Silicon Valley, the center of the tech universe, and that seemed to have brought out a crowd with more end-users than in the past. Aside from the all encompassing cloud, I heard a lot of buzz about flash memory based products, especially those using flash as cache for other storage systems.Avere Closes $17 Million Series B Funding Round
August 06, 2010 12:22 PM
Pittsburgh, August 6, 2010, Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks with its Demand-Driven Storage solutions, today announced that investors have contributed an additional $17 million in funding bringing total investment in the company to $32 million and enabling it to rapidly expand production and distribution of its FXT Series appliances that accelerate the performance and reduce the costs of NAS environments. Led by Tenaya Capital, the Series B funding round also includes original investors Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.Cache or Tier? Flash By Any Other Name. . .
March 30, 2010 11:00 AM
Today's flash SSDs are more than just the latest in a long series of storage systems that provide performance at any cost. RAMdisks, head per track disk, short-stroked drives and the like all boosted performance for datasets small enough to fit in the limited space they provided. Vendors are promising that we can use the performance of SSDs for more mainstream applications by moving the "hottest" data into SSDs and leaving the rest behind on capacity oriented drives. Now we just have to agree on what to call it. Caching, tiering, potato, potahto...
