| news January 3, 2018 - Microsoft
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Avere is
radically changing the economics of data storage. Avere's hybrid cloud solutions
give companies – for the first time – the ability to end the rising
cost and complexity of data storage and compute via the freedom to store and
access files anywhere in the cloud or on premises, without sacrificing the
performance, availability, or security of enterprise data. Based in Pittsburgh,
Avere is led by veterans and thought leaders in the data storage industry and is
backed by investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture
Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Western Digital Capital. For more information,
visit www.averesystems.com.
see also:-
Avere
Systems - mentions on StorageSearch.com,
Avere's NAS blog
after AFAs what's
next - how about cloud adapted memory?
SSD
market history
high
availability enterprise SSDs
90%
of enterprise SSD companies will disappear
Decloaking
hidden SSD segments in the enterprise
What were the big
SSD ideas to learn and forget in 2015? /
2016
/ 2017
Who's who in SSD? - Avere Systems
by Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- March 2012
Depending which way you look at it...
Avere Systems operates in the
SSD ASAP segment
(competitors being GreenBytes,
Compellent,
Dataram,
Nimble Storage,
Panasas,
Storspeed,
Tegile Systems and
countless others).
Or another way of looking at it is that Avere is
in the
NAS SSD market - competing
with companies like Nimbus
Data Systems, Pure
Storage, Astute
Networks, Coraid
and
WhipTail Technologies.
Avere has never appeared (yet) in StorageSearch.com's tracker -
the Top SSD Companies. |
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In September 2009 -
Avere Systems
announced it has
secured $15
million in Series A funding
from Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. Avere founders were
members of the team that created
Spinnaker Networks,
an innovator in scalable grid storage solutions,
acquired by
NetApp in 2004 for
$300 million.
In October 2009 -
Avere Systems unveiled
its FXT Series of
clusterable 2U rackmount
hybrid
NAS appliances (SSD ASAPs). Each
module contains upto 8x 3.5"
SAS
hard drives, 64GB
DRAM and 1GB of
nv RAM. The embedded
Avere OS
provides storage acceleration by dynamically tiering between the internal
rotating and solid state storage. List pricing starts at $52,500.
In December
2009 -
Avere Systems' CEO,
Ron Bianchini contributed his expert opinions to a new article penned
by the editor of StorageSearch.com -
the Problem with
Write IOPS - in flash SSDs.
In January 2010 -
Avere Systems
announced
it is shipping new
SLC
flash SSD options in its
FXT Series
10GbE NAS compatible
SSD ASAPs. The 2U
FXT 2700 appliance features 64GB of DRAM, 1GB of NVRAM, and 512GB of SLC flash
SSD. FXT clusters can scale to 25 appliances and support millions of
operations/sec and tens of GB/sec throughput. Pricing starting at $82,500.
In
April 2010
- SSD companies
Avere Systems and
Pliant Technology
were 2 of 5 companies named in an 8 page report published by
Gartner -
Cool Vendors in
Storage Technologies, 2010 ($495).
In July 2014 -
Avere Systems -
secured $20 million in series D funding in a round led by Western Digital
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"The reality for 99% of enterprises is they will operate increasingly
in a hybrid IT storage environment for many years to come. This means that no
single storage technology will win, and both on-premises and cloud storage will
be required to achieve cost and performance goals"Ron Bianchini,
president and CEO of Avere Systems - funding press release -
news archive - July
2014 |
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| Avere ranked #1 in
Google's cloud partner list |
Editor:- March 16 , 2016 - How well does Avere Systems (and
its virtual edge filer) work as a
gateway to
Google's cloud services?
Apparently very well - as Avere today
announced
it had been named "Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner of the Year"
for 2015. | | |
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| The cloud adapted memory
systems concept raises questions about the future ratios of nearline
storage to memory as memory systems get bigger. |
| after AFAs -
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| Avere gets another $20
million funding |
Editor:- July 10, 2014 - Avere Systems today
announced
raised an additional $20 million in
venture financing,
bringing the total amount invested in the company to $72 million. The Series D
funding round was led by Western Digital Capital, with participation from
previous investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture
Partners and Tenaya Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate sales,
marketing and continued development of the company's hybrid cloud storage
solutions.
"The reality for 99% of enterprises is they
will operate increasingly in a hybrid IT storage environment for many years to
come. This means that no single storage technology will win, and both
on-premises and cloud storage will be required to achieve cost and performance
goals" said Ron Bianchini,
president and CEO of Avere Systems.
Editor's comments:- I
agree with Ron about that 99% figure.
In my 2012 article -
an introduction to
enterprise SSD silos - when I was writing about a future in which SSDs are
everywhere - I said - "No single SSD type can match all the needs of all
user enterprises economically. And there will always be a need to have
intermediate management between SSD systems which have dissimilar speed / cost
characteristics." - "SSD systems" in this context - includes
the cloud.
But
I'd like to take Ron's statement - about what constitutes a "hybrid"
- a bit further...
I would add the words "software
architectures" somewhere in that strong assertion about hybrids. (Although
I can see why that would be too messy to include in a press release.)
I think that enterprises today - whether they consciously realize it or
not - are in reality choosing between at least 4 different generations of
SSD-aware software architectures within and around their enterprise SSD
hardware mix - every time they buy a new storage product or server - in
addition to the straightforward and highly visible determinations they make
about the 3 fundamentally different types of
hybrid caching and
tiering SSD appliances (different from a network architecture point of
view) which we've seen operating in classic
legacy storage
software frameworks since 2009.
Those "software hybrids"
- which represent different generations of thinking and different pragmatic
business approaches - are at the root of the software based multipliers in
rackmount
SSD market segments (which are making everyone's life more complicated).
In
the long term - the impact of multi-generationally-rooted and SSD-centric
software hybridization in the enterprise will be as significant as the
differences between a
2.5" SSD and a 2.5"
hard drive. | | |
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