Avere Systems brings to the market NAS Optimization solutions designed specifically to scale performance and capacity separately and take advantage of new Flash-based storage media using real-time tiering. Avere’s products allow organizations to achieve unlimited application performance scaling, free applications from the confines of the data center by eliminating latency and cut storage costs by more than half.

The company was founded in 2008 by a team of seasoned storage visionaries and experts to develop solutions that allow enterprises to scale storage network performance independently of capacity – driving up performance, scalability and agility – while driving down cost.

Company was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.