Reinventing Enterprise Storage with Hybrid Cloud NAS

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Integrating NAS and CloudEasy connectivity and management of NAS systems are benefi ts that users don’t want to lose. But with organizations’ exponential data growth, it is diffi cult for traditional NAS to keep up. While NAS systems satisfy the performance demands of modern data centers, they quickly fi ll up, and the cost to continually add and maintain capacity is prohibitive. Also their hierarchical fi le structure and limited namespace restrict scalability.

Cloud storage profi ciently deals with rapid data growth. It expands to meet demand and cost effectively houses massive amounts of data. Unfortunately, the latencies and bandwidth experienced when accessing data in the cloud do not achieve the performance levels demanded by today’s on-line enterprises. In addition, the interfaces used to access the data are not those used by today’s mainstream applications. Moving an IT environment from NAS to cloud can be very disruptive, diffi cult to implement, and may not meet the needs of your users.

By using both on-site NAS and cloud storage simultaneously, a hybrid solution is created, offering the best features of each. Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS provides an enterprise-level NAS system with the benefi ts of cloud storage. It doesn’t replace existing NAS but allows you to leverage your investment in current NAS storage while expanding into the cloud.

Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS integrates public and private clouds into a global namespace together with your existing NAS, providing global access to data. With Avere, your legacy NAS environment is not altered and your current data continues to reside in your NAS fi lers.

Avere Edge fi lers support data tiering. As frequently used fi les are accessed from the core fi lers, they are copied into the Edge fi ler’s cache for quicker access times. Data that is less frequently used is moved from the Edge fi lers into the lower cost cloud core fi lers. Avere also takes the pain out of NAS data migrations. Software moves live data between core fi lers, public and private objects and traditional on premises fi lers, enabling easy-to-implement, nondisruptive load balancing and archiving.

Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS eliminates the latency associated with the cloud, leveraging Edge-Core architecture to get data where users need it. It gives you the fl exibility to choose the right storage at the right location for your business.

Download a complimentary copy of Avere’s Cloud NAS for Dummies. It’s a great resource for starting a new cloud strategy or supplementing an expansion of data to a cloud provider.

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