Jon Klaus takes a look at what Avere is offering with their hybrid cloud solution. He has a long history with the company, going back to when they were focused on NAS optimization via a caching layer between storage and compute resources. Avere then moved into object storage translation, and is now entering into making cloud storage gateways. He gives some thoughts about what applications their gateway would benefit, weights in on caching vs tiering, and where he thinks these kind of products fit into IT. He doesn’t see the cloud ever killing the tangible benefits of on-prem, but hybrid solutions could certainly benefit both.
