Amplidata and Avere Systems ‘redefine’ NAS economics

Changing workloads and the ever-increasing volume and value of data continue to challenge even the most efficient IT organizations. Traditional RAID-based architectures are no longer viable for today's big data scale due to increased risk of data loss when using multi-terabyte hard drives. To address these challenges, many organizations are embracing cloud-scale storage solutions that provide high levels of durability, scalability and efficiency at a lower price point.

With this partnership, Amplidata and Avere Systems have redefined high performance massively scalable storage by combining Amplidata's Amplistor® with Avere FlashCloud™ on FXT Series Edge filers. Organizations can now have a cost effective solution that offers the best of both worlds - superior performance with massively scalable and durable storage in a single global namespace.

Avere demonstrated scalable NFS performance on Amplidata's object storage technology, using SPECsfs2008, the storage industry's most popular NAS benchmark. A three-node FXT 3800 cluster achieved 180,229 ops/sec throughput and minimal latency of 0.95ms overall response time (ORT) with an Amplistor system. The secure AmpliStor system could be deployed across three geographically dispersed sites.

Find Avere's latest SPECsfs2008 NFS testing results on the SPEC website at: www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html

AmpliStor ingests data at line speed and delivers 3GB/s of sustained aggregate throughput from a base configuration with three controllers. Performance scales linearly with additional controllers, as each controller can saturate a 10GbE connection to deliver an extra 1GB/s throughput. The full performance report is at www.amplidata.com/download/amplistor-performance-validation-report/

The combined solution significantly improves the total cost of ownership as performance and capacity can be easily scaled independently. AmpliStor's patented BitSpread® and BitDynamics® software runs on Intel*-based commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and can scale to store exabytes. AmpliStor protects data with fifteen 9s durability. With GeoSpread, data is dynamically spread across multiple sites using 65 percent[1]* less capacity than RAID 6 with replication and keeps data safe and accessible even if an entire site becomes unavailable.

Increasing capacity is as simple as adding a single storage node. Changing the configuration or durability levels after the system has been deployed requires only an online update to the policy. The system dynamically rebalances data across all nodes and sites without having to touch the data.

"We are thrilled to partner with Avere to offer customers a cost effective cloud-scale storage solution that combines high performance file access with massive scalability," said Mike Wall, chairman and CEO of Amplidata. "This solution is ideally suited for customers with big data demands who are looking to keep more data online in order to extract value and use it as a competitive advantage."

"Avere has been at the forefront of enabling enterprises with large NAS deployments to leverage object storage without having to rewrite existing applications or compromise on performance," said Ron Bianchini, president and CEO of Avere Systems. "The combined solution with Amplidata provides a new, dynamic architecture that combines the best of both worlds by allowing customers to scale NAS performance with dense storage capacity and achieve new economies of scale in storage infrastructure."