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Cloud disrupts traditional storage

How the Cloud Disrupts Traditional Enterprise Storage

Traditionally, enterprise IT had to buy their own expensive hardware. Then, the cloud came along and showed us that it doesn’t have to be that way. In the cloud, you eliminate the CapEx investment and rigidity of physical storage purchases. The cloud provides significant flexibility to grow and shrink as needed. If your business requirements change, you can adjust your IT resources accordingly. Additionally, there is no need to worry about hardware in the cloud because providers take complete responsibility for making sure everything works, including hardware and software deployment and upgrades – all behind the scenes.

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Building Enterprise Storage on OpenStack, for OpenStack, with Software-Defined Storage

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.

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Software Defined Storage vs traditional SAN Storage from a storage vendor perspective.

There is a new trend of Software Defined “Everything” in IT, and the storage industry is going through the same transformation. While there is a lot of marketing buzz around the term Software Defined Storage, this article is intended to introduce clarity by describing—from a storage vendor perspective—the major differences between Software Defined Storage and traditional SAN or NAS arrays.

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Why Cloud Storage Needs to be Reinvented

When people talk about cloud storage, they usually refer to storage that is accessible from outside the cloud, to stores files, pictures, and backups. Sometimes referred as object storage, a good example of this type of cloud storage is Amazon S3. In this article, I will be focusing on a different type of cloud storage – the storage needed by cloud servers to run their applications. This storage is accessed from inside the cloud and used by the cloud servers to mount their filesystems and databases. In Amazon AWS’s terminology, this is what is called EBS. A MySQL database or MS NTFS are good examples of a database and filesystem that will use a block storage device and not object storage.

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