Zadara Blog

Online Pool Migration with VPSA

Zadara Storage is excited to announce its newest feature, which makes it easy to adjust one’s trade-offs among price, protection and performance. We’ve always had agility, i.e., the ability to make changes easily, quickly and without penalty, at the core of our philosophy. This new capability fits right in because it means customers can now seamlessly shift their data to pools of different drive types, drive counts, drive rotational speeds and/or RAID levels with no application downtime.

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Zadara Storage at VMworld US 2014

We’re at VMworld this week in San Francisco – one of our favorite industry events! Here’s an overview of what you’ll find at our booth and some of the exciting product news we’re sharing at the event:

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SAN SSD NAS HDD

All flash? No cash! HDD SSD SAN NAS – Alphabet Soup for the Admin’s Soul

All flash is gaining much hype – and for good reasons. Flash is changing architectures, delivering faster workloads, enabling new applications and is helping to achieve better efficiencies – we are just at the beginning of the flash revolution in the data center.

But we all know that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and that although hyperbole often has a grain of truth, it needs to be looked at critically. With flash, the cost equation (TCA and TCO) is becoming more confusing whether on-premise or in the cloud, and flash vendors add to the confusion with marketing lingo. Well, who can blame them? Flash is a great technology and it’s tempting to market it everywhere.

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