Avere Systems adds SSD to their FXT appliances

SSD released a new product in their FXT range of NAS accelerators: the FXT2700. The two older models, FXT2300 and FXT2500, relied on a combination of RAM and 15k rpm SAS disks for caching data that is used often; the FXT2700 combines RAM and SSD for even faster access.

Avere Systems shows first benchmarks

Avere Systems has published some benchmark results for their FXT series of NAS acceleration products. At first glance, these look pretty good; the figures are based on the SPECsfs2008 benchmark. They achieved just over 20.000 IOs per second per node, with near-linear scaling of these results up to a 6-node cluster. The latter, according to [...]

StorSpeed presents direct competitor for Avere FXT series caching appliances

Caching for NAS and SAN systems has been a hot topic the last few days. Late last month Dataram presented their XcelaSAN appliance that sits between a Fibre Channel SAN and the clients accessing it, storing data in RAM. A couple of days ago, Avere Systems announced the FXT series of NAS caching appliances using [...]

Avere Systems present their FXT series NAS frontends

Avere Systems, a relatively new storage startup that announced they received their first round of funding only a month ago, has announced the availability of their first two products: the FXT 2300 and FXT 2500. I’ve had a quick look at the whitepaper they published about their architecture, and it looks like a good strategy.

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