Storage provider Avere Systems as improved its Avere OS, the engine that power the company’s FXT Series of NAS appliances. The company has added support for up to 24 mass storage systems, bi-modal CIFS ACL support, and parallel file access.
Avere OS provides dynamic tiering for optimal data placement across multiple storage tiers. It also provides performance acceleration for any application workload, and clustering for performance scaling and availability.
Avere OS supports industry-standard protocols, features an intuitive user interface, and offers an ease-of-administration designed to fit into existing storage infrastructures.
Now, the latest Avere OS release adds support for 24 heterogeneous mass storage systems. Moreover, with the all solid state FXT 2700, customers are able to add an extensible layer of SSD into their environments and harness the intelligence of clustered tiering.
The Avere OS also provides NFSv3 and CIFS file access interfaces to support applications running on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac servers and clients. “Now CIFS users have a choice of how to implement access control lists—either via standard CIFS ACLs or by mapping CIFS ACLs onto NFSv4,” Avere states in a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
“The improvements we have made to the Avere OS are both a demonstration of our commitment to provide companies the means to build and scale their NAS environment in the most efficient manner possible as well as a response to what our customers were asking for in using our solution as an integral part of their total storage infrastructure,” adds Avere founder and CEO Ron Bianchini.
