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Avere cuddles Google, continues with Amazon. Label that under ‘It's complicated’

The Chocolate Factory adds substance to its cloud

It's double your dates time: Avere has evolved its FXT front-end filer accelerator into a cloud storage gateway, first with Amazon and now with Google.

On-premises workloads and data sets can be pumped out from an on-premises NAS array through the FXT Edge Filer to Google's Cloud Platform.

The Chocolate Factory has been adding substance to its cloud with the Glacier-beating Nearline capability, a raft of services like DNS and VPN, an Android cloud console app and links with VMware's vCloud Air service.

Avere said that, with its FXT Edge filers, users can "deploy and scale compute in Google Compute Engine using both on-premises and/or Google Cloud Storage resources. It is the only solution on the market today that lets companies finally connect the dots between cloud computing and on-premises storage".

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Avere and Google Cloud Platform schematic. FlashMove sends data from on-premises NAS to Google Cloud Storage.

Patrick McGregor, product management lead for Google's Cloud Platform, issued a canned quote: "By collaborating with Avere, we have unlocked new cloud-computing opportunities for innovative enterprises... Our customers can flexibly run demanding apps in the cloud and store data anywhere without sacrificing performance.”

Avere is offering a Virtual Edge Filer for the Google Compute Engine and FlashCloud for Google Cloud Storage alongside its in-premises FXT filers. FlashMove pumps on-premises NAS data to the cloud.

Existing apps run on-premises and access the on-premises NAS or the data in Google Cloud Storage. New apps can be built to run in Google's Compute Engine and access data in Google Cloud Storage through a Virtual FXT instance in the Compute Engine cloud.

Google and Avere said that the joint Avere-Google cloud set-up can be used for rendering, simulation and compositing and can span multiple data centres in a hybrid cloud design.

Avere and Google Cloud Platform engineers are demonstrating its Google Cloud Platform integration at booth SL10227 in the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) exhibition in Las Vegas, which runs from April 13-16. ®

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