Avere Systems announces the Avere Cloud NAS at the Amazon re:Invent conference-- a service the company claims "changes the economics and functionality of data storage for the cloud era."
In a few words, Cloud NAS combines legacy local and cloud (Amazon S3 and Glacier) storage within a single global namespace (GNS).FlashCloud software running on Avere FXT Edge filers handles performance, scalability (to up to 450TB) and clustering, ensuring data is always available even during network outages and other failures.
“Avere Cloud NAS eliminates the most serious technological challenges customers face with moving to the cloud," the company states. "Moreover, the combination of Avere with Amazon Web Services offerings gives them an enormous cost advantage over traditional storage models and allows them to bend the data center cost curve.”
In addition Avere also sells FlashMove and FlashMirror software to help customers move live data to and from the cloud without disruption.
