SearchStorage.com: ''What ever happened to file virtualization?'' 18 March 2010
... emerging products that can serve as gateways for consolidated management of on-premise and cloud data storage. Newer companies in this space include Nasuni Corp. and Avere Inc.
The Register: ''Sony Pictures virtualises filers; Avere gets a big one'' 2 March 2010
Avere FXT accelerators front-ending filers in Sony Pictures Imageworks, a long-term Isilon user.
Storage Magazine: ''Get Control of NAS Systems'' 25 February 2010
Marc Staimer examines which technologies can be used to fight NAS sprawl.
Network World: ''Products of the Week'' 29 January 2010
The Avere FXT 2700 is chosen by Network World in 'Products of the Week'
The Register: ''Avere adds flash to filer accelerator'' 27 January 2010
Avere adds NAND flash to the mix, speeding up random read performance.
Infostor: ''Avere adds SSDs to tiered NAS appliances'' 26 January 2010
Avere adds solid-state disk (SSD) drives to its tiered NAS appliances, which also have DRAM and NVRAM storage tiers.
SearchStorage.com: ''Vendors take different approaches to automated tiered storage software for SSDs'' 13 January 2010
The rise of SSDs in data storage arrays brought about automated tiered data storage software to take advantage of expensive SSD capacity. SearchStorage compares Compellent, EMC and Avere's tiering approaches.
TEQ Magazine: ''Sultan of Storage Ron Bianchini starts his third venture to introduce demand-driven storage solutions'' 16 December 2009
Jonathan Kersting catch up with Ron about his latest venture in computer storage – Avere Systems.
ESG Research Talks with Avere about Storage Tiering 9 December 2009
Listen to Terri McClure of ESG Research talk with Rebecca Thompson of Avere about technological challenges that have limited storage tiering to date.
Live from the show floor with Avere Systems 17 November 2009
In this podcast segment recorded on 11/17/09 at SC09 in Portland, the CEO of Avere introduces his well-seasoned team and then walks John West from insideHPC through the story of the company and its solutions.
InformationWeek: ''Mainstreaming SSD'' 3 November 2009
George Crump discusses how mainstreaming SSD is going to require more than just price drops, it's going to require intelligent leveraging of the technology from companies like Avere.
Pittsburgh Business Times: ''Entrepreneur’s latest venture poised to begin selling product'' 30 October 2009
Profile of data storage start-up Avere Systems, the third company started by veteran entrepreneur Ron Bianchini.
Network World: ''SNW highlights SSDs, more'' 26 October 2009
A look at the week that was at storage networking show, including a recap of Avere CEO Ron Bianchini's presentation in the SSD track.
Network Computing Blog: ''Will There Be Tiers of SSD?'' 22 October 2009
An examination of whether SSDs will end the need for proper data management or if there will there be tiers of SSD.
StorageMojo: ''Cool Companies at SNW'' 22 October 2009
Robin Harris discusses the cool companies he met with at SNW in Phoenix, including Avere Systems.
The Register: ''Avere boosts NAS filer performance'' 13 October 2009
Newcomer Avere is one of four NAS storage suppliers to have exceeded 100,000 IOPS on the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark, with one quarter to one twelfth of the disks needed by the others - and with a faster overall response time as well.
Network Computing: ''Avere Takes On Storage In Stages'' 7 October 2009
Avere Systems is using a multi-stage storage approach in its new FXT Series, introduced this week. The FXT appliances contain a variety of storage technologies that are designed to place the proper combination of characteristics at each point along the storage deployment chain.
SearchStorage.com: ''Avere looks to optimize performance of tiered storage with FXT Series'' 6 October 2009
Avere Systems Inc. this week said it will begin shipping its first product, the FXT Series of tiered clustered network-attached storage (NAS) appliances with automated block-level storage tiers on Oct. 15.
The Register: ''Avere bets filers are crying out for more tiers'' 5 October 2009
Start-up Avere has designed a 4-tier filer appliance to deliver much faster I/O and dramatically lower the number of spindles needed in a high-performance filer.
Infostor: ''Avere introduces tiered NAS'' 5 October 2009
Startup Avere Systems today introduced its FXT line of appliances, which are designed to accelerate the performance of existing NAS filers by introducing layers of "tiered NAS" ...
Network World: ''Storage start-up Avere does tiering on the fly'' 5 October 2009
Avere's FXT Series NAS products combine SAS, RAM, SSD and SATA drives into one centrally managed system. "We do tiering on the fly," says Avere co-founder and CEO Ron Bianchini. "It's 100% automatic.
eWeek: ''Newcomer Avere Builds Intelligence into Tiered Storage'' 5 October 2009
Pittsburgh-based storage newcomer Avere Systems introduced a series of new-generation NAS [network-attached storage] devices that dynamically move data between standard hard drive and solid-state drive tiers, depending upon what the workload requires.
Network World: ''Avere arouses interest; company claims to reduce customers' cost, space and power consumption'' 16 September 2009
Deni Connor talks about Avere's emergence from stealth mode and its upcoming product announcement.
Pop City Media: "Avere Systems raises a whopping $15M for stealth data storage solution" 16 September 2009
Pittsburgh's Pop City notes the recent buzz about Avere and discusses the local technology roots of its founders and management team.
VentureBeat: "Avere Systems raises $15M to build cheaper, more powerful enterprise storage" 14 September 2009
Anthony Ha gets Avere investor Matt Howard of NVP to talk about why he thinks Avere's solutions and technology are unique.
StorageMojo: ''Avere Systems: Dynamic Tiering for the Masses – of Data?'' 6 August 2009
Robin Harris ponders what Avere is up to in the absence of any information other than an abstract posted for Ron Bianchini’s talk at SNW 09.
Inside IT Storage: ''Avere is Compellent for NAS'' 3 August 2009
Pete Steege thinks that Avere’s dynamic tiering approach may be the early killer app for SSD.
The Register: ''Spinnaker vets strike out on storage adventure'' 3 August 2009
by Chris Mellor – The Register imagines that the Avere product will be clustered filer nodes featuring tiers of SSD and HDD storage, with transparent file movement between the two based on demand patterns.