From new opportunities for Azure customers to the first true multi-cloud storage: Zadara eliminates vendor lock-in and empowers customers with more choices
If you missed yesterday morning’s news, Zadara has arrived in the Microsoft Azure Cloud! (See the full press release here). To celebrate our announcement, we will be attending TechEd this week in Houston, Texas.
We’re thrilled to join the prestigious Azure ecosystem. The Azure cloud is known for its ease of use and extensive IaaS and PaaS capabilities, and we are delighted to help Azure support applications needing enterprise storage features such as Microsoft SQL clusters, snapshots and replication, SSD read/write caching, and high performance QoS.
For the Azure community, our enterprise-grade storage features help migrate demanding applications without needing to rearchitect them,; our own customers can now take advantage of the Azure cloud capabilities; and for the industry, we believe we are launching the first true enterprise multi-cloud storage offering.
The Zadara Storage Clouds located in the Equinix facilities in the US West and US East regions are connected to Azure via ExpressRoute, which features high speed fiber lines that ensure consistent and low latency. This same Zadara deployment is also connected to the AWS cloud using Amazon’s Direct Connect service, which means users can now mount the same storage volumes onto VMs in both clouds simultaneously. (Yes, VMs in different clouds can now read from and write to the same storage volumes, with low latency!) Furthermore, customers can deploy their own Zadara Storage Cloud within their private clouds at Equinix, and enjoy seamless hybrid cloud capabilities and integration to leverage both Azure and AWS clouds.
A Multi-Cloud Future – Customers Empowered with More Choice
As more enterprises and organizations move to cloud and hybrid cloud models, CIOs and IT decision makers find themselves adopting roles of cloud service brokers. They are managing multiple services from manifold of providers, each delivering solutions for specific application, workload, compliance, security or budgeting needs. However, the frequent lack of connectivity, compliance and compatibility between these various services causes great challenges for moving existing data or changing services once deployed.
The significance of yesterday morning’s news is what we believe is an industry first – the first multi-cloud enterprise storage as a service offering that enables IT managers to to attach the same storage to Microsoft Azure and other public cloud offerings, such as AWS, from the same location, without needing to move data or deploy additional hardware. Customers now have far more choice as to their compute choice and can take advantage of multiple platforms, features and capabilities fitting to their unique application needs.
I dare say, the future of cloud computing is here!
Join me at TechEd this week for the following session, or set up a meeting with our team by contacting me here
Session DCIM 8422
May 14th 8:30 – 9:45 am
Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute:
Connecting Private and Public Clouds through Exchange Providers
