Avere Named Finalist in Enterprise Data Storage 2010 Products of the Year

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, today announced that its FXT2700 have been named as a finalist for Storage Product of the Year award in the disk subsystem category by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editors.  Other finalists included Dell, EMC, FalconStor, Hitachi, IBM, and Oracle.  

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Avere's FXT 2700 tiered NAS appliance leverages the extreme random read performance of Flash SSD to meet the highest application demands of performance-oriented customers and is the first from Avere to include an internal tier of Single Level Cell Flash Solid State Disk, delivering up to a 10x improvement in random read access for performance-critical applications such as 3D rendering, chip design and other CAD/CAE applications, database acceleration and seismic data analysis for the oil and gas industry, to name a few.  Deploying an Avere FXT 2700 appliance is a simple, fast and effective answer to the data access speed issue for these performance-centric users.

In announcing the winners, it was noted, "Data storage vendors turned out a slew of ingenious enterprise data storage products to address some of the key issues users have been grappling with in their storage shops.  From nearly 200 entries, the judges of Storage magazine's and SearchStorage.com's 2010 Products of the Year awards have selected 43 products as finalists.  All products are distinguished by their innovation, value and capabilities."

"We are pleased that the Product of the Year judges have recognized the innovation and customer value of our FXT 2700 Series and that Avere is now included as one of the elite storage product vendors alongside industry giants," said Avere CEO Ron Bianchini.

Winners will be announced in the February with the selections based on the product's innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value and judged by Tech Target's Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staffs, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants.

About Avere Systems

Avere provides Demand-Driven Storage solutions that dynamically organize data in response to business demand.  The Avere FXT Series enables faster application performance at dramatically lower cost by intelligently moving active data between traditional storage devices and FXT appliances.  In benchmark SPECsfs2008 testing the FXT Series was shown to provide the highest performance and most efficient scaling with lowest cost vs. other disk-based solutions.  Installed at leading entertainment, life science and energy companies, to name a few, the FXT Series, which can be clustered for maximum scalability, tiers data on SSD and HDD media and enables a 5:1 reduction in disks, power, and rack space.  Learn more at www.averesystems.com, and you can follow the company on Twitter.com/averesystems.

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