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Avere systems revisited by Gartner in `cool vendor’ report
May 2014 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Avere Systems announced that it has been included in Gartner Inc.’s report, "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014." [1]
The report revisits Avere as a past cool vendor in the "Where Are They Now?" section. Avere was included in Gartner Inc.’s "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010." Avere Systems and EMC Isilon are revisited in the 2014 report.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
Avere FlashCloud on FXT Series Edge filers integrates public and private object storage with legacy NAS into a global namespace (GNS) and provides scalable performance for users everywhere via familiar NAS protocols. GNS provides enterprises the flexibility to store their data wherever it makes the most sense and to adopt object storage at a comfortable pace. FXT Edge filers provide enterprise-class functionality, including NFS and SMB/CIFS protocols, scalable performance and high-availability to support any applications running on NAS. Together, FXT Edge filers and object storage provide optimized performance and capacity scaling and enable 70 percent or more savings in total cost of ownership (TCO).
[1] Gartner "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014" by Dave Russell, Arun Chandrasekaran, Gene Ruth, Pushan Rinnen, Stanley Zaffos, April 15, 2014
