A/V FS as a SAN file system is agnostic to storage arrays and hardware and storage and transport protocol. So A/V FS can integrate storage from commodity hardware to NVME-oF arrays.

A/V FS is also agnostic to brands and can up to a certain point integrate legacy storage arrays.

Ardis Technologies understands that competition for A/V FS can come from file systems such as BeeGFS, Spectrum Scale, Weka.io, HDFS and others supporting SMB and NFS.

Ardis combines A/V FS and its file sharing software with block IO protocols such as iSCSI, FC, NVME-oF/RDMA and SMB is supported only for low bandwidth operations.

Also for convenience of management in HPC and M & E user and group access rights are folder based instead of file based.

Due to the nature where Ardis Technologies is coming from AVFS performs best when handling unstructured data.