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4 New Services to Amp Up Your Zadara Storage Cloud

This morning, we shared really exciting news and some of my favorite new VPSA service features. Here’s a summary of why enterprise cloud storage just got even better, everywhere you are, both on premises and at AWS, Azure and other public clouds:

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Concurrent Robocopy Jobs

How to Reduce Robocopy Backup Time of SMB Volumes in the Cloud

Even though Microsoft’s Robocopy is multi-threaded, the utility inherently limits the number of outstanding I/Os which it can issue to your VPSA. This is simply due to the fact that it has to read and traverse your directory structure while collecting the data for backup. This causes delays in processing which are exacerbated by network latency.

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Large volumes AWS Zadara vs. EBS

Bigger, Faster Volumes at AWS

This week, AWS launched larger, faster EBS volumes. Large, fast volumes attached to EC2 instances are something Zadara has been offering since 2012. Now that AWS is starting to catch up, is Zadara still the right choice for data at rest in AWS? Let’s check four important dimensions; size, speed, value, and features.

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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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