Avere Unveils Hybrid Storage Appliance FXT 3800, Starting at $112,500

Avere Systems, Inc., in NAS optimization, announced its FXT
3800.

This hybrid Edge filer contains both SSD media and SAS HDDs and delivers performance gains in benchmark testing.

With this new hybrid technology, Avere can automatically tier data
across four media types: RAM, SSD, SAS and SATA HDDs, delivering
performance for the hottest files, while at the same time moving cold
data out of the performance tier and onto SATA to minimize costs and
shrink the storage footprint.

Dynamic tiering assures that every block of file data is located in
storage that matches its current level of activity. As a result, the new
system is 40% faster than the FXT 3500, the company’s previous top
performer on the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark
test,
and is less costly than flash-only solutions.

"With the new FXT 3800, Avere continues to be on the cutting edge of
file system storage innovation and gives companies a new way to think
about the way they purchase storage," said Benjamin Woo, analyst with
Neuralytix. "Customers can now receive the greatest amount of
flexibility and choice by leveraging all four media tiers of storage,
while defining the performance and efficiency requirements based on the
activity of the data."

The FXT 3800 Edge filer contains 144GB of DRAM, 2GB NVRAM and 800GB of
SSD to accelerate the read, write and metadata performance of most
active data. It contains 7.8TB of 10K SAS HDDs to store a large working
set of recently active data. The FXT 3800’s 2x10GbE and 6x1GbE ports
allow 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.
 
"The performance gains and cost benefits associated with our latest FXT
Edge filer demonstrate the massive advantages of a hybrid approach that
can precisely match the storage media to the data being accessed," said
Ron Bianchini, president and CEO of Avere Systems. "And when deployed as
part of our edge-core architecture, it also delivers the flexibility
businesses need to locate storage where it makes most sense for the
business."
 
Available within 30 days, the FXT 3800 starts at $112,500.