Avere Systems CTO to Address Automated Tiering within HPC Environments at SC10 Conference

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Kazar, Chief Technology Officer for Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, is among the invited speakers to present at the 22nd annual SC conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis in room E280-281 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, November 17 at 10:30 a.m.

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Kazar's presentation, "Truths and Myths of Automated Tiering within HPC Environments," will take a deep dive look at automated tiering and how it fits into HPC environments, the benefits of deploying an automated tiering solution, and the little-known secrets behind the technology.  Among the things Kazar will reveal is how automated tiering can be used to support demanding applications within HPC infrastructures across the WAN.

In addition to speaking, Avere will be exhibiting its FXT Series of NAS appliances throughout the convention, November 13-18 in Booth No. 1255.  The Avere FXT Series contains both solid state storage and traditional spinning media to optimize performance without compromises on all types of workloads. Reads, writes and metadata are allocated to storage media via Avere's unique approach to dynamic tiering. Allocation algorithms running on the FXT appliance monitor access frequency patterns and workload types and manage data placement on multiple internal tiers to increase performance, distribute workload in the cluster and minimize requests to the mass storage server. Movement of data occurs in real-time – not in hours or days – and occurs at the block level. All of this is done automatically by the system – there are no complex policies to configure or update.  The FXT Series is ideal for organizations looking to improve the current performance of their storage networks while significantly driving down the cost of their existing architectures, making it a "must-see" exhibit at SC10.

SC10 spotlights the most original and fascinating scientific and technical applications from around the world.  The conference presents an international lineup of celebrated speakers, panel participants, presentations, workshops and exhibits from international participants representing industry, academia and government research organizations.  Additional information about the conference is available at http://sc10.supercomputing.org

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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