Avere Systems Enhances Support for Google Cloud Platform

Avere Systems, Inc. introduced expanded offerings for Google Cloud Platform including support for a new instance, the ability to use local SSD as the Edge filer cache and additional support for Google Cloud Storage.

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Avere will deliver higher performance to Google Compute Engine with support for the n1-highmem-32 instance and will enhance its support of Google Cloud Storage by introducing both Nearline and Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage options, in addition to standard storage. Customers can leverage these new features to gain greater choice of services that best fit the cost, availability, and latency requirements of their applications.

Earlier this year, the company announced a strategic collaboration with Google that empowers customers to move compute intensive workloads and large data sets to Google Cloud Platform in order to reap the benefits of its highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure. The company enables movement of data between on-premise storage systems and Google Cloud Platform, delivering low latency and high performance for big data processing and storage in the cloud.

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Company’s enhancements to Google Cloud Platform
This release includes increased support for both Google Compute Engine and Cloud Storage. Expanded offerings include:

For Google Compute Engine

Support for a new instance, the n1-highmem-32. This instance provides the highest number of virtual CPUs (32) and the largest amount of memory (208GB) in Compute Engine, delivering the highest per-instance file-serving performance for the company’s Virtual Edge filer. To enable a large data working set and a high cache ‘hit rate’ the Virtual Edge filer is configured with 4TB of persistent SSD.
Existing support of the n1-highmem-8 instance has been extended to include the ability to use 1.5TB of local SSD as the Edge filer cache. Local SSD provides the highest possible performance because the SSD is internal to the instance and network latency is eliminated. Customers also have the option to configure the n1-highmem-8 instance with 1TB of persistent SSD to reduce cost.

For Google Cloud Storage

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“We’re very happy with the progress made with this collaboration in just a matter of months. Working with Google for joint customers, like visual effects company Framestore, shows the real-life benefits that cloud computing can provide,” said Mike McMahon, VP, business development, Avere. “Expanding our technologies further into Google Cloud Platform is proof that customers are looking for solutions like ours that let them harness the scale of Google infrastructure without sacrificing performance or increasing cost.“

The Virtual FXT on Google Cloud Platform is available and can be purchased directly from the company and authorized resellers. Pricing scales with the size of the compute infrastructure deployed in Google Compute Engine.

End-user pricing is $0.013/hr per virtual CPU accessing the scalable file system provided by the Virtual FXT. The Avere software is sold in addition to the cost of Google Compute Engine instances.

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