My name is Ron Bianchini and I am the CEO of Avere. Today, we announced Avere’s first product – the FXT Series. The FXT is the culmination of 2 years worth of effort to bring a new data storage architecture to market – Tiered NAS. By utilizing multiple storage media types in a tiered architecture, we leverage the best aspect of each media in a single storage solution. The resulting system yields efficiency in performance and capacity scaling that is not possible with homogeneous approaches. While this idea has received some attention lately, we believe that our unique approach sets us apart from the crowd.
Our original idea for this architecture stemmed from the realization that current NAS solutions were largely driven by the capabilities of a single storage media – the disk drive. In the past two decades, disk drives have seen unprecedented growth in capacity, resulting in densities not contemplated by traditional storage architectures. Traditional NAS storage servers have kept pace with this explosion in capacity by providing comprehensive data management tools. At the same time, these systems have fallen behind in finding a cost effective way to deliver the data to the end user that is stored on these ever-denser storage servers. We started Avere to separate the functions of data management (implemented on today’s storage servers) from data delivery (delivered on Avere’s FXT series).
Our intent for Avere’s blog is to foster interaction in the storage community. This is not just my blog. You will hear from others on the Avere team about some of the issues revolving around storage servers. Topics are likely to include comparisons of server architectures, performance and capacity metrics, and deployment strategies including space and power constraints. I welcome you to stay connected to us through this blog, and also to participate along with us.
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Great Concept & solution. All the best to Avere’s team.