FXT 5000 Edge Filers From Avere Systems

Avere Systems, Inc. introduced new generation of Edge filers, the FXT 5000 series.

This series is a hybrid cloud storage product, providing organizations of all sizes with the same technology that helps scale one of the world’s largest genomic sequencing databases, renders the visual effects of today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters, and serves national treasures from the world’s largest digital assets library.

FXT 5000 Edge filer series is comprised of two models – 5400 and 5600.

Major enhancements include:

• Higher performance. The FXT 5600 delivers 70% more data throughput than previous FXT models for high-intensity use cases like rendering, genomic analysis and financial simulations, providing extreme performance scaling.

• Higher capacity. The FXT 5600 includes 9.6TB SSD per node. With the clustering of up to 50 nodes per system, capacity scales to 480TB SSD per cluster, doubling the amount of SSD over previous FXT models.

• Higher density. Both FXT 5000 models are 50% smaller than prior FXT models, occupying just one rack unit per node, thereby providing a lower TCO in the data center.

“Data center space is expensive whether it’s in your own building or in a rented colocation facility,” said Jeff Tabor, senior director, product management and marketing, Avere. “For years, Avere has been helping customers with high-performance computing needs, such as movie studios, hedge funds, and life sciences organizations, to accelerate the performance of their file-based applications and lower the cost of their storage. The FXT 5000 Series brings this to the next level by delivering more than three times the data throughput and four times the SSD capacity per unit of rack space.“

FXT Edge Filer Series
The FXT Edge filers are scale-out NAS solution built for the hybrid cloud. With the FXT Series, enterprises can integrate the public cloud, private object storage solutions and existing NAS systems into a single, easy-to-manage infrastructure. With a complete NAS feature set, including NFS and SMB protocols, businesses can store data and run applications on premises or in the cloud with minimal latency. The company has developed a technology that scales performance and capacity at the edge of the network and hides latency to remote NAS or object-based storage, creating a experience – whether processing data, rendering animations or running quantitative models for complex analytics.