Network-attached storage (NAS) optimization provider†Avere Systems has introduced its latest FXT Series Edge filer. The product is designed to provide the benefits of NAS optimization to remote office environments.
The latest FXT Series Edge enables SMBs to centralize resources and reduce infrastructure at remote locations while providing the ability to run mission-critical applications outside of the data center and across a WAN without performance degradation.
The Avere FXT 3100 Edge filer contains 48 GB of DRAM and 1 GB NVRAM to accelerate the read, write, and metadata performance of most active data. It contains 2.4 TB of 10k SAS HDDs to store a large working set of recently active data. FXT 3100’s 2x 10GbE and 6x 1GbE ports are designed to enable connectivity to clients and servers for high performance access to active data and to Core filers for infrequently accessed data. Each unit can be clustered to other FXT Edge filers with scaling of up to 50 nodes for linear performance and HA failover.
Built on the latest Avere Operating System (AOS), the Avere FXT 3100 Edge filer enables automatic tiering of data for optimal performance, advanced monitoring, and a global namespace for managing all storage as a single pool. Optional software enhancements include Avere FlashMove for simpler NAS data migrations and data performance, and FlashMirror, heterogeneous NAS replication software for implementing comprehensive data protection across a NAS infrastructure.
“While all SMBs can benefit from the improvements in performance and reduction in footprint that our FXT Series Edge filers offer,” says Avere Systems president and CEO Ron Bianchini, “SMBs with remote or branch offices face a unique situation with sprawling NAS environments that require additional capital and operation investments.” He adds, “Our new FXT 3100 Edge filer helps take the sting out of these deployments by providing global data access and visibility of data as part of a single logical pool, alleviating the need for duplicate storage infrastructure in remote offices and provides a form factor suitable for branch offices.”
The FXT 3100 Edge filer starts at $42,500. It is expected to be generally available within the 30 days.
