Ron Bianchini, President & CEO of Avere Systems, joined John Furrier and Jeff Frick in theCUBE at the AWS Summit 2014 in San Francisco last week, talking about storage architecture, solving performance issues and leveraging the cloud in conjunction with your existing infrastructure.

Bianchini started by explaining the kind of support Avere Systems receives from AWS, ever since the beta stage.

“The product is called ‘Edge Filer’ and sits in front of traditional storage and we take the transactions off of what the traditional storage does, but to an incredible amount,” he said. “A typical user would see 98 percent of the transactions occurring locally in our box, typically in solid state, ram or flash. Yet 100 percent of the capacity gets pushed back to the repository behind us. With the new release that we just come up with, that repository is AWS. ”

Retrofit, not rip & replace

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Because business is about creating, developing and managing, Avere Systems gives customers new options to leverage the cloud in conjunction with their existing infrastructure, so that they aren’t restricted by high storage costs, network latency and security concerns. Avere Systems promises their customers to help eliminate storage roadblocks.

“Running an application against our Edge Filer, the core repository could be on-prem, in a traditional S-box, or it could be off-prem. With Amazon supporting this release, it can be in AWS, and you will be able to see the same performance no matter where the data is stored,” explained Bianchini.

Avere FXT Edge filers give customers the edge, providing unlimited NFS and SMB/CIFS performance scaling while making their data easier to manage.

“Our product has been on market for three years. It has been very much on-prem (performance and capacity). This is the first time we are enabling people to get access to that large scale repository,” noted Bianchini.

“Some people are driven to that, some others are very conservative: ‘show me that it works, that I can maintain my interfaces and keep the same performance up’. A lot of our product is that: the front-end of our program, what the customers connect to. That maintains the same POSIX style, NFS and NSB interface that you got from traditional NAS, yet now they are repositories in the cloud. We believe it’s the best of both worlds: maintaining the infrastructure that you are comfortable with, yet allowing you to leverage that large scale repository in the cloud,” said Bianchini.

Avere FXT Edge filers put performance where the users need it most, optimizing their NAS for unlimited performance scaling, global access to data, and dramatic cost savings. See the entire segment below.