Avere Systems, a
leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, today introduced
Avere CloudFusion, a unique file storage application for Amazon Web Services
(AWS), and its availability in the AWS Marketplace. This highly responsive and
cost-effective solution provides a purpose-built cloud file system that makes
it easy for customers to leverage the performance features of Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with the cost
efficiencies of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), all with the simplicity of
network-attached storage (NAS).
Last year, Avere announced the
availability of its virtual NAS solution, with
software-only virtual FXT (vFXT) Edge filers that work in conjunction with
cloud-based and on-premises storage to deliver low latency and high performance
levels for big data processing and storage in the cloud. Avere CloudFusion is
based on the same technology and brings similar capabilities to smaller data
sets that use the AWS Cloud.
Based on data access patterns and
internal caching algorithms, CloudFusion automatically places the "hottest,"
most frequently used data, on Amazon EC2 RAM, while "warm" data is placed on an
Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD volume for high responsiveness to Amazon EC2.
Finally, inactive "cold" data is placed on Amazon S3 for the lowest cost and
best data protection.
"We are excited to be bringing
the benefits of Avere's NAS technology to an entirely new set of AWS customers
with our CloudFusion product," said Ron Bianchini, CEO and president of Avere
Systems. "Enabling customers to run standard NAS applications on Amazon EC2,
while storing the bulk of their data on Amazon S3 provides the optimal cost and
performance for a wide variety of applications."
"As cloud adoption accelerates,
customers are looking for ways to use and store their data more efficiently,"
said Hal Bennett, General Manager, Global Technology Partners, Amazon Web
Services, Inc. "With Avere's CloudFusion on the AWS Marketplace, AWS customers
can further leverage AWS products and services to benefit from the increased
flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness of the cloud."
CloudFusion delivers a NAS
feature set including snapshots to protect data against accidental deletion and
corruption, encryption to secure data against unauthorized access, compression
to make the most efficient use of storage capacity and a simple-to-use web GUI
that makes setup and administration easy and provides visibility into the file
serving operations of CloudFusion.
Pricing and Availability
Avere CloudFusion is generally
available on the AWS Marketplace.
End-user software pricing starts at $0.99/hour for AWS r3.xlarge instances. A
21-day free trial is available (AWS usage fees may apply). CloudFusion is used
in conjunction with Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3, which are separately
billed at AWS current rates.