Over at the Microsoft Blog, Jason Zander writes that the company is acquiring Avere Systems. As a leading provider of high-performance NFS and SMB file-based storage, Avere Systems has customers among many of the world’s top brands in media and entertainment, life sciences, technology and finance.
By bringing together Avere’s storage expertise with the power of Microsoft’s cloud, customers will benefit from industry-leading innovations that enable the largest, most complex high-performance workloads to run in Microsoft Azure. We are excited to welcome Avere to Microsoft, and look forward to the impact their technology and the team will have on Azure and the customer experience.
Avere uses an innovative combination of file system and caching technologies to support the performance requirements for customers who run large-scale compute workloads. In the media and entertainment industry, Avere has worked with global brands including Sony Pictures Imageworks, animation studio Illumination Mac Guff and Moving Picture Company (MPC) to decrease production time and lower costs in a world where innovation and time to market is more critical than ever.
According to Zander, customers in life sciences, education, oil and gas, financial services, manufacturing and more are increasingly looking for these types of solutions to help transform their businesses. The Library of Congress, John Hopkins University and Teradyne, a developer and supplier of automatic test equipment for the semiconductor industry, are great examples where Avere has helped scale datacenter performance and capacity, and optimize infrastructure placement.
Avere and Microsoft both recognize that there are many ways for Enterprises to leverage data center resources and the cloud,” writes Avere CEO Ron Bianchini. “Our shared vision is to continue our focus on all of Avere’s use cases – in the datacenter, in the cloud and in hybrid cloud storage and cloud bursting environments. Tighter integration with Azure will result in a much more seamless experience for our customers.”
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Bernie Behn from Avere Systems describes how the company helps customers migrate HPC workloads to the Cloud.
