Category Archives: Tiered NAS

Part 4: Things to Consider Before Upgrading Your NAS

Thinking about adding a Flash cache? Uncover the hidden costs of scalability and manageability.

Tiering is Dead, Long Live Tiering

Dynamic tiering is a hot topic in storage; some tout forthcoming technology while others proclaim tiering’s demise. What gives?

ESG Research & Avere on Tiered Storage

Terri McClure of ESG talks with Avere about technological challenges limiting storage tiering and how the FXT addresses each.

Scalability of Dynamic Storage Tiering: The Missing Link

Focusing on performance as the sole attribute of dynamic tiering misses the point – find out why.

Two-Stage NAS Storage: Data Delivery and Data Management

A two-stage deployment strategy allows NAS storage to adapt to specific applications without customization – find out how.

IDC’s Take on Dynamic Storage Tiering

Go beyond the what, when and how of dynamic storage tiering and get an independent perspective on why tiered NAS matters.

Avere’s Record-Setting Performance Results

An engineer’s perspective on pushing the SPEC SFS2008 benchmark to the limit.

Four Questions to Ask About Dynamic Storage Tiering

Everyone’s talking about it, but no vendor describes it the same way, find out how to differentiate between solutions in four easy steps.

Welcome to the Avere Demand-Driven Storage Blog

Avere’s CEO talks about the vision behind the company’s founding and the architecture of the FXT Series.