Network World: ''Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops'' 4 January 2012
Under the "Fix it Frugally" heading, NW describes how a Mass. school district used Avere to tame bootstorms
Virtualization Review: ''Boot Storms Be Gone with Avere's NAS Optimization Solutions'' 4 January 2012
Bruce Hoard is intrigued with a straight-forward solution from Avere to a vexing problem that more than one VDI system has encountered.
Five Trends to Watch in 2012 29 December 2011
Robin Harris selects hybrid storage - from Avere among others - as a top trend in 2012.
Storage Switzerland: ''Top Storage Companies To Watch In 2012'' 28 December 2011
George Crump says Avere is the "most rapidly evolving company on our list" in its year end up round-up of storage vendors to watch in 2012
SearchVirtualDesktop: ''IT pros reject big storage for newcomers'' 13 December 2011
Instead of replacing an aging storage system to reduce virtual desktop boot times, a Mass. school district decided to speed things up by adding appliances from Avere, Inc.
Search Storage UK: Product roundup: Scale-out NAS meets unstructured data challenge'' 22 November 2011
Chris Evans examines companies - Avere included - that offer products in the scale-out NAS space.
InsideHPC: ''SC11 – Avere Systems Breaks Record With 1.6 Million IOPs'' (VIDEO) 17 November 2011
In this video, Avere Systems’ Rebecca Thompson describes the company’s innovative NAS Optimization products and how they enabled a world record 1.6 Million IOPs
The Register: ''Avere destroys NetApp benchmark after just 13 DAYS'' 16 November 2011
Avere has shown it has real teeth by sinking them into NetApp's ankles and pulling it off the top of the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark hill by achieving a new record SPECsfs2008 score.
Claus Egge: ''Avere – Boosting NAS Performance'' 7 November 2011
According to Claus Egge, the European storage industry used a couple of IT shows to demonstrate just how much new life there is in new storage vendors - one of which was Avere at SNW in Frankfurt.
L'Informaticien : ''SNW - Avere optimise l’utilisation des NAS'' (French) 3 November 2011
Bertrand Garé discusses Avere's solution in his SNW Frankfurt round-up.
UK Data Storage Buzz: ''SNW Europe: Avere’s ‘edge NAS’ product 2 November 2011
An interesting example of a product at SNW Europe that is quite happy to be good at one thing — OK, maybe two things in a quite unusual combination — is Avere Systems.
ZDNetUK: ''New products from Storage Network World 2011'' 2 November 2011
The first day of storage show Storage Network World here in Frankfurt saw a flutter of new products, and some interesting conversations.
The Register: ''Avere punches up file access with 2 more accelerators'' 13 October 2011
Avere introduces two faster and more scalable filer accelerators.
InformationWeek: ''Avere Systems Expands NAS Optimization Lineup'' 11 October 2011
Avere adds performance, capacity, scalability, and analytics to its network attached storage optimization appliances.
InsideHPC: ''New Avere NAS Optimization Solutions with Advanced Analytics'' 11 October 2011
Walk through Avere's latest product announcement of new FXT models and advanced analytics with the Rich Report Podcast (VIDEO)
Storage Newsletter: ''Start-Up's Profile: Avere Systems'' 21 September 2011
Jean-Jacques Maleval sits down with Avere to discuss the company.
The Register: ''Avere menaces NetApp with accelerators'' 19 September 2011
El Reg was briefed by Avere CEO Ron Bianchini on a couple of recent wins against NetApp.
CRN UK: ''Avere amorous for adventurous VARs'' 19 September 2011
NAS optimisation vendor plots European expansion after establishing its UK channel.
Channel Pro: ''Avere poses quandary for storage channel'' 16 September 2011
In a candid interview with Channel Pro, Ronald Bianchini, Jr. co-founder and CEO of Avere Systems, believes that the firm has a “game changer” in terms of how the channel will sell storage in the future.
Marketwatch: ''Dow Jones VentureWire Announces List of the 50 Most Investment-Worthy Technology Start-Ups'' 7 September 2011
Avere was selected as one of only 50 most investment-worthy technology companies by VentureWire. Companies selected for the FASTech 50 are developing data storage, cloud, social media, Web, software, health care, and other technologies for consumers and enterprises.
Search Storage: ''Data storage startups to watch: Avere Systems Inc.'' 6 September 2011
Dave Raffo lists the top ten start-ups to watch in data storage. Why Avere makes the list: Improves performance and management of clustered NAS.
Live From SIGGRAPH: Avere in Media & Entertainment (VIDEO) 11 August 2011
Product marketing director Jeff Tabor talks about how movie studios are using Avere NAS solutions to bring films to market faster
Search Storage: ''New Trends in Storage'' 9 August 2011
Stephen Foskett tackles the latest trends in enterprise storage, including the growing use of Flash. He has this to say about Avere's implementation of SSD, "With a history in the scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) space, Avere’s team developed an appliance that sits in-band between existing NAS arrays and clients."
Search Storage: ''Storage virtualization: It's ready, are you?'' 7 August 2011
Erick Slack of Storage Switzerland examines storage virtualization solutions and adoption rates, including NAS-based systems from Avere.
Search Storage: ''Avere FXT clustered NAS appliances render aid to visual effects firm'' 3 August 2011
After overloading its Apple Xsan storage system, visual effects provider Whiskytree Inc. turned to Avere to improve scalability and productivity of its performance-hungry rendering farm.
SearchStorage.com: ''Automated storage tiering options for your environment'' 12 July 2011
Phil Goodwin looks at automated storage tiering products, including Avere's FXT Series, and gives pointers to help decide which one is right for your data storage environment.
MSPmentor: ''Picture This: Kodak as a Storage Service Provider'' 23 June 2011
Kodak Service and Support will provide on-site support for Avere Systems‘ network-attached storage (NAS) solutions.
Search Storage: ''Sizing up storage performance analysis options'' 10 June 2011
Jeff Boles of the Taneja Group argues that the storage industry has been too been fixated on capacity and storage performance requires the same focus.
Computerworld: ''Ready,Set,Tier'' 1 June 2011
These early adopters are stacking up the simple rewards af automated data tiering. Avere customer Mount Sinai School of Medicine is interviewed.
IT Depends: ''Avere: Tidbits from NAB and the New GNS Release'' 27 April 2011
Terri McClure was at the NAB show in Las Vegas and took some time to talk to Avere customers and partners to find out what they think of the new global namespace (GNS) functionality the company recently announced.
Network Computing: ''Avere Systems Upgrades NAS Appliance Line To Deliver More 'Horsepower' 14 April 2011
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.
SiliconAngleTV: ''Avere in The Cube at SNW'' (VIDEO) 8 April 2011
Ron Bianchini, CEO, and Rebecca Thompson, VP of Marketing of Avere Systems talk about their high performance scale-out NAS solution and macro trends in the marketplace.
Network World: ''SSDs reign at SNW'' 7 April 2011
Avere Systems kicked off Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, Calif., this week with announcements of new products...
eWeek: ''Avere Ships New Scale-Out NAS Appliances'' 5 April 2011
New arrays, like most all of the newer-generation storageware, feature faster and cooler-running Intel Xeon quad-core processors.
The VAR Guy: ''Avere Systems Gets NAS-y with New FXT Models'' 5 April 2011
The FXT 2550 and 2750 promise to bring big beefy system upgrades for “next-generation” NAS experiences. If you’re a storage VAR, read on …
Network World: ''Products of the Week'' 23 March 2011
Avere's latest announcement of GNS lands it in the "Product of the Week" feature.
SearchStorage.com: '' Storage virtualization technology pros and cons'' 22 March 2011
A Q & A with Marc Staimer on storage virtualization; Avere mentioned as being the most advanced on the NAS side of virtualization.
insideHPC ''Slidecast: Avere’s Global Namespace'' 15 March 2011
In this slidecast, Avere explains how the company’s newly announced Global Namespace (GNS) capability will allow organizations to tame NAS sprawl resulting from enormous growth in unstructured data.
SearchStorage.com: '' Avere adds global namespace to NAS accelerator appliances'' 15 March 2011
Avere added a global namespace capability to its FXT Series, making it easier manage data across heterogeneous filers.
The Register: ''Avere extends FXT box for virtual stuffing'' 15 March 2011
Avere has extended is its FXT multi-tiered filer accelerator box to aggregate filers together inside a single global name space.
Infostor: ''Avere adds global namespace to NAS tiering'' 15 March 2011
“A global namespace allows IT administrators to create a single logical view and a single mount point for heterogeneous physical filers,” says Ron Bianchini, Avere’s president and CEO.
SearchStorage.com: ''Auto-tiering software set to boost adoption of SSDs'' 24 February 2011
Gartner Group analyst predicts that automated tiering will become as common in storage systems as virtual memory is in computers. "It's just a natural evolution of the storage hierarchy."
StorageNewsletter: ''Most Promising Storage Start-Ups'' 22 February 2011
Avere named one of the top 15 most promising start-up companies in storage.
GenomeWeb: ''Mount Sinai Selects Avere's Networked-Attached Storage Appliance for Genome Sequencing Data'' 18 February 2011
Mt. Sinai stated that Avere's system has helped minimize read/write bottlenecks and reduced the amount of time needed to process jobs from 12 hours to less than six hours.
Channel EMEA:''VADition Signs Distribution Agreement with Demand-Driven Storage Vendor Avere'' 17 February 2011
New sales/margin opportunities for UK reseller partners to virtualise, consolidate and accelerate enterprise NAS
Scientific Computing World: ''Mount Sinai reduces genomic sequencing time'' 16 February 2011
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has implemented an Avere Systems FXT Series to reduce job processing times of I/O intensive genomic sequencing research.
Pittsburgh Business Times: ''Avere Systems aims to take data storage into the future'' 11 February 2011
Interview with Avere CEO and co-founder on the future of data storage.
Network Computing: ''Storage Gurus Offer Their Best Big-Bang Bets'' 14 January 2011
Mark Peters of ESG says the one thing storage buyers should focus on implementing is automated tiering for its "massive potential TCO benefits."
SearchStorage.com: ''2010 Product of the Year Finalists'' 13 January 2011
The Avere FXT 2700 is on the short list for Search Storage and Storage Magazine's 2010 product of the year.
VentureBeat: ''The hottest enterprise IT trend you’ve never heard of'' 6 December 2010
A venture capitalist shares his opinion that it's not cloud or virtualization that's the hot trend in storage, but Flash memory and the intelligent use of it.
Processor: ''Building Storage Networks Achieving Higher Performance On A Budget'' 3 December 2010
If the name of the game is affordable high-performance storage, how can enterprises meet the demands of higher performance and the almighty dollar at the same time? An interview with Avere provides factors to consider.
TechnicallySpeaking:''Tech Field Day:Avere Systems'' 22 November 2010
Avere provides an appliance that makes the tiering decisions for the stored data before it ever gets stored, then writes it to the disk ... keeping the cost of the mass storage down and allowing great response times when reading and writing information.
TechVirtuoso:''Storage Tiering vs Caching'' 12 November 2010
TechVirtuoso ponders which approach is better - the Flash cache by NetApp or storage tiering from Avere.
Gestalt IT: Avere - Live From Tech Field Day San Jose 12 November 2010
Links to video of Avere CEO presentation to Tech Field Day delegates in San Jose, CA and roundtable that followed
Enterprise Storage Forum: Avere Systems Speeds Up Tiered NAS Appliances 1 November 2010
Avere System’s FXT Series of data tiering appliances are getting an upgrade ... will include bi-modal CIFS ACL support, parallel file access and an increased number of back-end connections to heterogeneous NAS filers.
The Register: ''Avere screeches straight through VDI storms'' 29 October 2010
Avere has now upgraded its operating system, doing array-level things such as striping and replication in and between FXT cluster nodes to deal with request bursts.
WSJ: ''VentureWire’s FASTech Conference Spotlights Most Promising Start-Ups'' 12 October 2010
Dow Jones VentureWire examined hundreds of young technology start-ups that have raised venture capital during this challenging economy and chose 50 of the most promising ones to watch, including Avere Systems.
Storage Switzerland: ''VMworld Briefing Note-Avere'' 2 September 2010
...use the FXT to get the IOPS you need to increase virtual machine densities and leverage your existing, trusted data services to protect and manage that data. The net result is greater ROI from your virtual server infrastructure without having to replace your existing storage system.
SearchStorage.com: ''Dynamic storage tiering options'' 13 August 2010
Discussion of the three primary reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering in your environment. and examination of the various dynamic storage tiering product categories - array-based, storage virtualization-based and file system-based DST products
Pittsburgh Business Times: ''Avere Systems raises $17M'' 6 August 2010
The Series B funding round included a pair of previous investors, Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners, both based in Silicon Valley, and newcomer Tenaya Capital, which led the round.
VentureBeat: ''Avere Systems raises $17M to beef up enterprise storage'' 5 August 2010
The company will use the money to expand production and distribution of its FXT series of storage appliances that cut the cost and improve the performance of storage in enterprises.
eWeek: ''17 Promising Storage Companies Flying Under the Radar'' 22 July 2010
In this slide show, eWEEK has compiled a list of up-and-coming independent storage companies that have the potential to grow up and be an EMC or NetApp someday—if they don't get acquired first.
Business Solutions ''Implement a Tiered NAS Architecture'' 3 May 2010
Why VARs should be looking at tiered NAS to solve customer problems.
Gartner Group: ''Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010'' 12 April 2010
Avere Systems is picked by Gartner Group as one of the cool storage vendors for 2010 that can help companies modernize their storage infrastructures and improve quality of service while at the same time containing costs.
Computerworld: ''Automating the data store with tiering technology'' 22 March 2010
Bryan Nielsen of the Salk Institute talks about how it uses Avere's technology and the benefits of tiering
SearchStorage.com: ''What ever happened to file virtualization?'' 18 March 2010
... emerging products that can serve as gateways for consolidated management of on-premise and cloud data storage. Newer companies in this space include Nasuni Corp. and Avere Inc.
The Register: ''Sony Pictures virtualises filers; Avere gets a big one'' 2 March 2010
Avere FXT accelerators front-ending filers in Sony Pictures Imageworks, a long-term Isilon user.
Storage Magazine: ''Get Control of NAS Systems'' 25 February 2010
Marc Staimer examines which technologies can be used to fight NAS sprawl.
Network World: ''Products of the Week'' 29 January 2010
The Avere FXT 2700 is chosen by Network World in 'Products of the Week'
The Register: ''Avere adds flash to filer accelerator'' 27 January 2010
Avere adds NAND flash to the mix, speeding up random read performance.
Infostor: ''Avere adds SSDs to tiered NAS appliances'' 26 January 2010
Avere adds solid-state disk (SSD) drives to its tiered NAS appliances, which also have DRAM and NVRAM storage tiers.
SearchStorage.com: ''Vendors take different approaches to automated tiered storage software for SSDs'' 13 January 2010
The rise of SSDs in data storage arrays brought about automated tiered data storage software to take advantage of expensive SSD capacity. SearchStorage compares Compellent, EMC and Avere's tiering approaches.
TEQ Magazine: ''Sultan of Storage Ron Bianchini starts his third venture to introduce demand-driven storage solutions'' 16 December 2009
Jonathan Kersting catch up with Ron about his latest venture in computer storage – Avere Systems.
ESG Research Talks with Avere about Storage Tiering 9 December 2009
Listen to Terri McClure of ESG Research talk with Rebecca Thompson of Avere about technological challenges that have limited storage tiering to date.
insideHPC ''Live from the show floor with Avere Systems'' 17 November 2009
In this podcast segment recorded on 11/17/09 at SC09 in Portland, the CEO of Avere introduces his well-seasoned team and then walks John West from insideHPC through the story of the company and its solutions.
InformationWeek: ''Mainstreaming SSD'' 3 November 2009
George Crump discusses how mainstreaming SSD is going to require more than just price drops, it's going to require intelligent leveraging of the technology from companies like Avere.
Pittsburgh Business Times: ''Entrepreneur’s latest venture poised to begin selling product'' 30 October 2009
Profile of data storage start-up Avere Systems, the third company started by veteran entrepreneur Ron Bianchini.
Network World: ''SNW highlights SSDs, more'' 26 October 2009
A look at the week that was at storage networking show, including a recap of Avere CEO Ron Bianchini's presentation in the SSD track.
Network Computing Blog: ''Will There Be Tiers of SSD?'' 22 October 2009
An examination of whether SSDs will end the need for proper data management or if there will there be tiers of SSD.
StorageMojo: ''Cool Companies at SNW'' 22 October 2009
Robin Harris discusses the cool companies he met with at SNW in Phoenix, including Avere Systems.
The Register: ''Avere boosts NAS filer performance'' 13 October 2009
Newcomer Avere is one of four NAS storage suppliers to have exceeded 100,000 IOPS on the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark, with one quarter to one twelfth of the disks needed by the others - and with a faster overall response time as well.
Network Computing: ''Avere Takes On Storage In Stages'' 7 October 2009
Avere Systems is using a multi-stage storage approach in its new FXT Series, introduced this week. The FXT appliances contain a variety of storage technologies that are designed to place the proper combination of characteristics at each point along the storage deployment chain.
SearchStorage.com: ''Avere looks to optimize performance of tiered storage with FXT Series'' 6 October 2009
Avere Systems Inc. this week said it will begin shipping its first product, the FXT Series of tiered clustered network-attached storage (NAS) appliances with automated block-level storage tiers on Oct. 15.
The Register: ''Avere bets filers are crying out for more tiers'' 5 October 2009
Start-up Avere has designed a 4-tier filer appliance to deliver much faster I/O and dramatically lower the number of spindles needed in a high-performance filer.
Infostor: ''Avere introduces tiered NAS'' 5 October 2009
Startup Avere Systems today introduced its FXT line of appliances, which are designed to accelerate the performance of existing NAS filers by introducing layers of "tiered NAS" ...
Network World: ''Storage start-up Avere does tiering on the fly'' 5 October 2009
Avere's FXT Series NAS products combine SAS, RAM, SSD and SATA drives into one centrally managed system. "We do tiering on the fly," says Avere co-founder and CEO Ron Bianchini. "It's 100% automatic.
eWeek: ''Newcomer Avere Builds Intelligence into Tiered Storage'' 5 October 2009
Pittsburgh-based storage newcomer Avere Systems introduced a series of new-generation NAS [network-attached storage] devices that dynamically move data between standard hard drive and solid-state drive tiers, depending upon what the workload requires.
Network World: ''Avere arouses interest; company claims to reduce customers' cost, space and power consumption'' 16 September 2009
Deni Connor talks about Avere's emergence from stealth mode and its upcoming product announcement.
Pop City Media: "Avere Systems raises a whopping $15M for stealth data storage solution" 16 September 2009
Pittsburgh's Pop City notes the recent buzz about Avere and discusses the local technology roots of its founders and management team.
VentureBeat: "Avere Systems raises $15M to build cheaper, more powerful enterprise storage" 14 September 2009
Anthony Ha gets Avere investor Matt Howard of NVP to talk about why he thinks Avere's solutions and technology are unique.
StorageMojo: ''Avere Systems: Dynamic Tiering for the Masses – of Data?'' 6 August 2009
Robin Harris ponders what Avere is up to in the absence of any information other than an abstract posted for Ron Bianchini’s talk at SNW 09.
Inside IT Storage: ''Avere is Compellent for NAS'' 3 August 2009
Pete Steege thinks that Avere’s dynamic tiering approach may be the early killer app for SSD.
The Register: ''Spinnaker vets strike out on storage adventure'' 3 August 2009
by Chris Mellor – The Register imagines that the Avere product will be clustered filer nodes featuring tiers of SSD and HDD storage, with transparent file movement between the two based on demand patterns.