PITTSBURGH, PA – January 19, 2016 – Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, today announced that NASA has selected Avere to help consolidate legacy storage and move many of its datasets to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Avere will be supporting the Ames Research Center, NASA’s Silicon-Valley field center, which has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development. Breakthrough research conducted at the Ames Research Center includes advancements in supercomputing, NexGen air transportation, missions for low-Earth orbit and the moon, lunar science and advancing human-technology interaction.
The Ames Research Center decided to transition from general NFS and CIFS file services to Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3) and considered several options before choosing Avere to lead the transition to the AWS Cloud. With Avere’s unique set of capabilities, NASA’s Ames Research Center was able to keep speedy NFS/CIFS response times while also benefitting from hybrid capabilities and cost-effective pricing that AWS offers. Additionally, Avere’s encryption capabilities were the right fit for NASA’s stringent requirements for sensitive data.
Avere FlashMove makes NASA data migrations simple with moves of live data between multiple heterogeneous environments while Avere FlashCloud eliminates the latency associated with cloud by using Avere Edge-Core architecture to make hot data more available while pushing warm and cold data backwards.
“The stakes are high when it comes to the transferring data to and securing it in the cloud – Avere makes moving legacy storage to AWS very straightforward and safeguarded,” said Ron Bianchini, president and CEO at Avere Systems. “With Avere, the researchers at Ames Research Center didn’t encounter downtime during their transition and were able to maintain the best possible performance when it comes to accessing their data while keeping the data protected.”
About Avere Systems
Avere is radically changing the economics of data storage. Avere’s hybrid cloud solutions give companies — for the first time — the ability to end the rising cost and complexity of data storage and compute via the freedom to store and access files anywhere in the cloud or on premises, without sacrificing the performance, availability, or security of enterprise data. Based in Pittsburgh, Avere is led by veterans and thought leaders in the data storage industry and is backed by investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Western Digital Capital. For more information, visit www.averesystems.com.
