SAN JOSE, Calif. and
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Helping the
world harness the power of data, Western Digital Corporation
(NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that its HGST Active Archive System
has been certified with the FXT 5000 Series Edge Filer family from
Avere, a leading provider of cloud file storage infrastructure. The
combined strength of the HGST Active Archive System and Avere 5000
FXT Edge Filer provides maximum flexibility to enable enterprises
to leverage the scalbility and economics of cloud architectures,
while preserving investments in file storage and
applications. The solution allows users to deploy on-premises
and remote cloud-scale file storage as well as hybrid
cloud-bursting models. The HGST Active Archive System provides
exabyte scalability with 15-nines of data durability, while the
Avere 5000 FXT Series Edge Filers provide effortless storage
tiering between high performance NAS and the HGST Active Archive
System. The cloud-bursting solution uses intelligent file system
caching to shepherd only active data to cloud-based compute
platforms, while still delivering the performance of local compute
and storage.
"The public cloud has delivered tremendous cost savings to
enterprises looking for a utility based model for compute, however
this model has not worked for customers with very large data sets
or customers who do not trust their data in the public cloud," said
Barbara Murphy, vice president of
marketing, Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit, HGST, a Western
Digital Corporation brand. "In working with Avere, Western
Digital Corporation is building a superior ecosystem and delivering
a highly flexible, easy-to-scale storage system that rivals cloud
storage."
The solution gives enterprises ultimate flexibility, easily
integrating with existing systems using NFS, SMB, and S3-compliant
access protocols. Western Digital Corporation and Avere channel
partners serving the media and entertainment, finance, life
sciences, and high-performance computing (HPC) markets can now
provide an object storage solution delivering cloud-scale economics
to targeted rich metadata applications.
"Avere is at the forefront of large enterprise NAS deployments.
The HGST Active Archive System with Avere Edge Filers maximize
cloud-storage benefits without compromising application
performance," said Rebecca Thompson,
vice president marketing, Avere Systems. "Together, Avere and
Western Digital Corporation, offer customers a path to quickly
scale-out storage, targeting existing applications, while future
proofing both on-premises and public cloud deployments."
"Neuralytix sees this strategic relationship as providing an
essential solution to organizations looking to re-imagine their
data centers. Support for massive data growth and better extraction
of application-specific knowledge will provide more precision
storage capabilities to vertical market segments," said
Ben Woo, managing director,
Neuralytix. "Resellers, as recognized experts to a compute and
storage IT base, will benefit by being able to deliver an
optimized, scalable, and easy to manage storage solution to meet
customer data SLAs and cost demands."
Availability
The HGST Active Archive System and Avere 5000 FXT NAS Gateway
are each available immediately through HGST and Avere channel
partners. Resellers and system integrators are encouraged to join
HGST's Partner Program at
http://www.hgst.com/partners/enterprise-partner-program. Multiple
options for service and support are available. For more
information, please visit www.hgst.com/activearchive or email
salesna@hgst.com.
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About WDC
Founded in 1970, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC),
Irvine, Calif., is an
industry-leading developer and manufacturer of storage solutions
that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve
digital content. Western Digital Corporation addresses
ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of
compelling, high-quality storage products with effective technology
deployment, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products
are marketed under the HGST, WD and G-Technology brands to OEMs,
distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and
consumers. Financial and investor information is available on the
company's Investor Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
HGST (@HGSTStorage), a Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC)
brand, helps the world harness the power of data. Our smarter
storage solutions power the markets and companies that shape our
lives—enabling possibilities for the cloud, enterprise and
sophisticated infrastructures everywhere. For more information,
please visit www.hgst.com #LongLiveData
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.
One MB is equal to one million bytes, one GB is equal to one
billion bytes, one TB equals 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) and one
PB equals 1,000TB when referring to storage capacity. Usable
capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to object storage
methodologies and other factors.
© 2016 All rights reserved. Western Digital, WD, HGST, and
G-Technology are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western
Digital Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other
trademarks, registered trademarks, and/or service marks, indicated
or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
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Erin
Hartin
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Katie
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HGST, a Western
Digital Corp Brand
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Porter
Novelli
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Office:
303-284-7790
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Cell:
408-439-2002
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pr@HGST.com
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HGST_Team@porternovelli.com
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