Avere Systems Awarded Pittsburgh's 2015 Top Places to Work for Two Consecutive Years


PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwired - Aug 27, 2015) - Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as one of Pittsburgh's 2015 Top Workplaces for the second year in a row. The Top Workplaces program, run by Workplace Dynamics, recognizes companies that have an outstanding work environment in the Pittsburgh Metro area.

The Top Workplaces awards are determined solely on employee feedback. Avere employees responded to a set of questions about the company's leadership, work flexibility, career opportunities, compensation and benefits in a survey conducted by Workplace Dynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. WorkplaceDynamics conducts regional Top Workplaces programs with 40 major publishing partners across the United States.

"At Avere, we are proud of our inclusive, open and collaborative environment, where our culture defines who we are as a company," said Ron Bianchini, CEO of Avere Systems. "As a team, we've been able to build a great amount of trust. Everyone has the best intentions for the company and because of that, we've built strong working relationships with each other."

Avere is pleased to add the 2015 Top Places to Work award to its growing roster of awards and achievements. The company was named a Top Place to Work in 2014; was the 2014 Red Herring Top 100 North American Winner; won the Carnegie Science award for innovation in data storage technologies; and CEO Ron Bianchini won Executive of the Year for the Best in Biz Awards and was a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2014. Additionally, the company recently announced partnerships with Google and Amazon and has seen significant traction in the media and entertainment space -- the company's technology was used to create visual effects for almost all of the top Hollywood blockbuster films in 2013 and 2014.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the complete list of Top Workplaces on August 27, 2015. For more information about the Top Workplaces lists and WorkplaceDynamics, please visit www.topworkplaces.com and www.workplacedynamics.com.

About Avere Systems
Avere is radically changing the economics of data storage. Avere's hybrid cloud solutions give companies -- for the first time -- the ability to end the rising cost and complexity of data storage and compute via the freedom to store and access files anywhere in the cloud or on premises, without sacrificing the performance, availability, or security of enterprise data. Based in Pittsburgh, Avere is led by veterans and thought leaders in the data storage industry and is backed by investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Western Digital Capital. For more information, visit www.averesystems.com.

Contact Information:

Media Contact:
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