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Avere climbs higher up the Google cloud mountain

Come hither, oh ephemeral cloudy thing, and bring your reduced latencies with you

Filer speed turbocharger Avere has a faster virtual filer in the cloud and front-ends Google Nearline and DRA cloud storage.

It's adding the three-second data retrieval Nearline and Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) support to its existing FXT front-end caching box' support of Google cloud storage.

This means that data in the cloud can feed on-premises apps needing fast response through the on-premises FXT caching box.

Avere is also boosting the utility of its virtual FXT that runs in the cloud, so that it will deliver higher performance to Google Compute Engine with support for the n1-highmem-32 instance.

This instance provides the highest number of virtual CPUs (32) and the largest amount of memory (208GB) in Google Compute Engine.

Avere says that, to enable a large data working set and a high cache hit rate, its Virtual Edge filer is configured with 4TB of Persistent SSD.

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Existing support for the n1-highmem-8 instance has been extended to include 1.5TB of Local SSD as the Edge filer cache. Customers can reduce this to 1TB of Persistent SSD to reduce cost.

Avere's FXT has been used by movie special effects house RVX in Rykjavik to front-end filers 37 miles (60km) from its HQ and deliver fast file IO to rendering artists who worked on the Everest movie.

The Virtual FXT on Google Cloud Platform is available immediately from Avere Systems and its authorised resellers. Pricing scales with the size of the compute infrastructure deployed in Google Compute Engine. End-user pricing is $0.013/hour/virtual CPU accessing the scalable file system provided by the Virtual FXT.

Avere software is sold in addition to the cost of Google Compute Engine instances. ®

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