When Software Defined Storage (SDS) is sold using the same, old business model, it effectively nullifies the flexible advantages of SDS. It’s time to take advantage of new business models to unleash agility and innovation.
The cloud offers unprecedented flexibility and agility, but it’s still full of shortcomings that have made migrating existing Enterprise applications to the public cloud either impossible, or extremely complicated and full of performance, availability and management compromises.
Today Zadara Storage announced the next evolution of our storage platform – Zadara On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS). We pronounce it ‘OPUS’ (yep, just like this).
It’s exciting times here at Zadara Storage – we recently announced our support for Microsoft Azure, and with it the availability of the first truly multi-cloud storage solution, our customer base is rapidly expanding. We’ve even been crowned ‘cool vendor’ by Gartner’s prestigious listing.
NAS in the cloud – your current options at AWS and other cloud providers
Summary: As an Enterprise Storage as a Service vendor, we built our Virtual Private Storage Array technology from the ground up for the cloud, and OpenStack has been a key component of our architecture from day one. As we head to the OpenStack Summit 2014 in Atlanta (Zadara Storage will be exhibiting in Booth #E16) our CEO Nelson Nahum shares some of the reasons why we chose to base our architecture on OpenStack.
Multi-Tenancy
Following my presentation at Cloud Expo: The Cloud Needs to Look More Like the Data Center, I contributed the following article ‘Storage: You Once Were the Weakest Link’ to Cloud Computing Journal, describing why storage challenges in the cloud had arisen from critical business concerns and kept enterprises from migrating their applications to the cloud.
