Avere Systems Named Tech Awards Circle Winner

PITTSBURGH, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions, has been selected a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Gold in the Enterprise Hardware category.  Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

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Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

"Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Avere exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year's competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high tech community."

This award follows Avere Systems being chosen in April as a "Cool Vendor in Storage Technologies, 2010"(1) report by Gartner Inc. and selected as a "Product to Watch" by eWEEK editors in the publication's June 7 issue.

"The unbiased panel of judges at Tech Awards Circle is recognition of our products' ability to improve NAS performance while providing a 5-to-1 reduction in usage of disks, power and rack space," said Ron Bianchini, co-founder and CEO of Avere Systems.  "We think that companies looking for an alternative way to improve storage performance for all kinds of workload and access patterns while reducing power consumption and data center footprint will find the FXT Series a compelling solution."

The winning product, the Avere FXT Series, dynamically move data between Solid State and HDD tiers, yielding higher performance and lower costs while avoiding over-provisioning of storage capacity, inefficient use of limited data center space and wasted power consumption. With the FXT Series, business demand for rapid data access is met by storing active client data on a cluster of high-performance FXT appliances.  The FXT moves inactive data to a legacy NAS file server that is optimized for capacity and data retention.  System performance scales linearly by adding additional appliances to the FXT cluster and capacity scales by adding disk storage to the NAS file server or mass storage system.  Decoupling storage network performance from the disk capacity available enables Avere to deliver enterprise-class application performance while slashing CAPEX acquisition costs by 60% and ongoing OPEX expenditures by a 5:1 ratio on average.

In addition to the product recognition, Rebecca Thompson, Vice President of Marketing, took the gold in Executives of the Year. She was the only marketing executive to win.

More information about Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, is available online at http://www.techawardscircle.com or by email at [email protected].

About Tech Awards Circle

In its second year, Tech Awards Circle was established to truly honor the 'best of the best' in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.

About Avere Systems

Avere provides Demand-Driven Storage solutions that dynamically organize data in response to business demand. The Avere FXT Series enables faster application performance at dramatically lower cost by intelligently moving active data between traditional storage devices and FXT appliances. In benchmark SPECsfs2008 testing the FXT Series was shown to provide the highest performance and most efficient scaling with lowest cost vs. other disk-based solutions.  Installed at leading entertainment, life science and energy companies, to name a few, the FXT Series, which can be clustered for maximum scalability, tiers data on SSD and HDD media and enables a 5:1 reduction in disks, power, and rack space.    Learn more at www.averesystems.com, and you can follow the company on Twitter.com/averesystems.

(1) Gartner "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010" by Dave Russell, April Adams, Pushan Rinnen, John Monroe, Joseph Unsworth, Adam W. Couture, Stanley Zaffos, April 2, 2010

SOURCE Avere Systems

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