Avere Systems has announced support for Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. Through this new support, joint customers can now take advantage of object storage scalability from Dell EMC ECS, while using Avere FXT Edge filers to seamlessly integrate existing file-based applications and maintain storage performance.

Dell EMC ECS delivers software-defined object storage to the enterprise, empowering organizations with the distributed storage architecture needed to store large amounts of data across a number of locations. Easily deployed in a matter of hours, the solution is not only highly scalable, but offers data resiliency to ensure data protection at massive capacity levels. Avere FXT Edge filers support Dell EMC ECS with Avere’s bi-directional translation of object APIs to NAS protocols. Using the supported solution, organizations can reap the cost and scale benefits of object storage without changes to applications.

This article was originally posted “Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) Support from Avere Systems” from Cloud Strategy Magazine.