Avere Systems FXT Series Named as One of SearchStorage.com's 'Products of the Year'

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, was named a winner in the 2009 Products of the Year awards presented by the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group with a Bronze award for its FXT Series of NAS appliances in the disk and disk subsystems category of the annual awards.

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The 2009 Products of the Year were awarded to companies for data storage products that best implement leading-edge technologies in innovative ways or which take existing technologies to the next level. Products were judged by a panel of users, analysts, consultants and Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editors, who rated the products on six criteria: innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.

Avere's FXT Series dynamically moves data between Solid State and HDD tiers, yielding higher performance and lower costs while avoiding over-provisioning of storage capacity, inefficient use of limited data center space and wasted power consumption.  Judges called the company's solution "One of the best uses of solid state to date," and "A very innovative application of file virtualization clustering, SSDs and automated tiering," according to the award capsule summary.

"With nine finalists in our category, including heavyweights such as EMC Corp. and Sun Microsystems, we are proud to have been recognized among the winners of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 'Product of the Year' awards alongside 3PAR and Dell," said Ron Bianchini, co-founder and CEO of Avere Systems. "Our FXT Series provides customers with an unbeatable option over traditional network infrastructures by using solid-state drives in an innovative way to simply and cost-effectively increase the performance of their NAS systems.  With our continued commitment to bringing products to market that are responsive to business needs, we're confident that our showing in next year's competition will be golden."

With the FXT Series, business demand for rapid data access is met by storing active client data on a cluster of high-performance FXT appliances. The FXT moves inactive data to a legacy NAS file server that is optimized for capacity and data retention.  System performance scales linearly by adding additional appliances to the FXT cluster and capacity scales by adding disk storage to the NAS file server or mass storage system.  Decoupling storage network performance from the available disk capacity enables Avere to deliver enterprise-class application performance while slashing acquisition costs by 60 percent and ongoing operating costs by a 5:1 ratio on average.

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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. The FXT series appliances tier data on SSD and HDD media and can be clustered for maximum scalability. Learn more at www.averesystems.com, and you can follow the company on Twitter.com/averesystems.

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