Introduction
Zadara Storage is a provider of enterprise storage as a service (STaaS). The service is able to deliver a highly available and predictable file and block storage. One of the interesting pieces of Zadara is that they use a pay-as-you-go model. The company delivers its product using its patented software, which is called Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSA).
What is VPSA?
VPSA is a software, patented by Zadara Storage that can deliver flexible, multi-tenant enterprise Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology for peta-scale primary and secondary storage. One of the advantages of VPSAs is that they have isolated resources, exceptional data security, management control and predictable performance. VPSA’s meet the most stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs), even in public cloud deployments. VPSA has a similar Storage System (SAN/NAS), dual controller, dedicated drives and full control of storage like EMC or NetApp would have. One of the big differences with VPSA, however is that storage is instant and the user only pays for the time that they are using the system. Two major advantages of VPSA is that it is elastic, meaning it can add or remove, expand or shrink, and it can be connected to Virtual Machines (VM’s) that are either on a public cloud or on a private cloud in your own data center.
Awards Received
- 2015 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Leadership Award
- EMA ‘Vendor to Watch’
- Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ in Storage Technologies 2014
- UK Cloud Awards’ Storage Product of the Year
- VentureBeat cloud competition winner
- Tie50 cloud competition winner
- Under the Radar cloud competition winner
- Plug and Play’s cloud competition winner
Service Providers
- Equinix
- TelecityGroup
- CloudSigma
- 365 Data Centers
- Amazon Web Services
- Eircom
- Microsoft Azure
- CoreSite
- Dimension Data
Strategic Considerations
Zadara has developed the first multi-cloud cable SAN and NAS as a service offering that it enables IT managers to provision and deploy once to Zadara’s platform, and then to attach the same storage to other public cloud offerings.
Solutions for the Telecommunications Industry
The service provides a multi-tenancy architecture that allows each customer to be able to have dedicated hardware resources that can deliver quality of service (Qos) performance.
Why Zadara Storage?
Zadara Storage is an innovative company that provides its customers with real SAN and NAS Storage, while at the same time giving them full control over storage, providing advanced enterprise features, and predictable Qos. Zadara has a pay-as-you go usage-based billing system, which can mean low storage costs for customers.