Avere Systems, a NAS optimization provider, has launched a new NAS architecture to help users leverage Flash, virtualization, and the cloud. The new NAS architecture is designed to boost performance and remove storage bottlenecks created by legacy NAS architectures.
Avere’s new Edge filer operates with legacy or Core filers to implement the new architecture. Edge filers manage the global user namespace across multiple filers and remote facilities, allowing customers to easily move and manage data between storage devices. With the Edge filer, users have a model to ensure the gains in efficiency realized by virtualization aren’t negated by losses in storage performance.
Avere’s FlashMove enables data migrations, with no need to halt applications or suspend access to data during migrations. FlashMoves allows live data to be load-balanced across existing systems and transparent archival to secondary storage.
FlashMirror simplifies the implementation of a disaster recovery practice on a NAS infrastructure by replicating data on primary and secondary Core filers and keeping them in sync. FlashMirror offloads the replication-processing load from the storage and supports clustering to scale replication performance.
AOS 3.0 will be generally available within the next 30 days. The 3.0 software release is a free upgrade for existing customers. For new and existing customers FlashMove and FlashMirror require separate licenses. For more information, visit http://www.averesystems.com.
