Leading Analyst Firm Picks Avere Systems as 'Cool Vendor' in Storage

PITTSBURGH, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, today announced that it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010"(1) report by Gartner Inc.

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Avere is one of five emerging private vendors that can help companies meet their goals of modernizing their storage infrastructures and improve quality of service while at the same time containing costs.  Companies included in Gartner's Cool Vendors reports offer technologies that are considered innovative, impactful and intriguing.

"While we can talk about how our NAS appliances intelligently use a mix of storage media from Flash to disks in order to improve performance while lowering costs, having a respected analyst firm like Gartner validate our message is incredibly meaningful to prospective customers," said Ron Bianchini, president and CEO of Avere Systems.  "We're pleased to be recognized among the 'Cool Vendors' for providing a fresh approach to NAS architecture with our FXT Series of appliances.  We think that those looking for an alternative way to improve storage performance for all kinds of workload and access patterns while reducing power consumption and data center footprint will find us 'cool' too."

Avere's FXT Series NAS appliances dynamically move 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. 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.

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.

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.

(1) Gartner "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010" by Dave Russell, April Adams, Pushan Rinnen, John Monroe, Joseph Unsworth, Adam W. Couture, Stanley Zaffos, April 2, 2010

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