PITTSBURGH – May 6, 2014 – Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for cloud enabled data centers, today announced that it has been included in Gartner Inc.’s report, “Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014.”[1]
The report revisits Avere as a past cool vendor in the “Where Are They Now?” section. Avere was included in Gartner Inc.’s “Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010.” Avere Systems and EMC Isilon are revisited in the 2014 report.
“The company’s growth and momentum is a result of our continued focus on developing disruptive storage solutions to address a changing market. With the recent release of Avere FlashCloud and our benchmark testing with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), we have demonstrated that the economics of cloud storage can now be tapped by the enterprise without sacrificing application performance or data security,” said Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing, Avere Systems. “We’re excited that Gartner has recognized Avere.”
Avere FlashCloud on FXT Series Edge filers integrates public and private object storage with legacy NAS into a global namespace (GNS) and provides scalable performance for users everywhere via familiar NAS protocols. GNS provides enterprises the flexibility to store their data wherever it makes the most sense and to adopt object storage at a comfortable pace. FXT Edge filers provide enterprise-class functionality, including NFS and SMB/CIFS protocols, scalable performance and high-availability to support any applications running on NAS. Together, FXT Edge filers and object storage provide optimized performance and capacity scaling and enable 70 percent or more savings in total cost of ownership (TCO).
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
[1] Gartner “Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014” by Dave Russell, Arun Chandrasekaran, Gene Ruth, Pushan Rinnen, Stanley Zaffos, April 15, 2014About Avere Systems
Avere is radically changing the economics of data storage. Avere’s solutions give companies – for the first time – the ability to put an end to the rising cost and complexity of data storage by allowing customers the freedom to store files anywhere in the cloud or on premises without sacrificing the performance, availability or security of their 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 and Tenaya Capital. For more information, visit www.averesystems.com.
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Media Contact, Americas
Elliot Schimel
Horn Group on behalf of Avere Systems
646-202-9768
avereteam@horngroup.com
Media Contact, RoW:
Rose Ross
Omarketing on behalf of Avere Systems
+44 208 255 5225
emeaaverenews@omarketing.com
Source: RealWire
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