Zadara Storage Expands European Coverage

Zadara Storage Ltd, a provider of enterprise storage-as-a-service (STaaS), announced expanded availability in Europe for its Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service via its partnership with Microsoft Azure.

Azure users have access to VPSA functionality within European Union boundaries.

With this announcement, European Azure users can leverage the VPSA to run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) workloads on both file (NFS and CIFS) as well as block (iSCSI) storage with the performance, reliability and privacy of dedicated local storage, while preserving the scale, flexibility and economics of cloud-based multi-tenant solutions.

The Zadara Storage offering provides Azure customers with capabilities such as data encryption, snapshots, remote replication, clustering and support for large volumes. The company’s expanded presence will also allow existing Zadara On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) customers to replicate to Azure’s Western Europe region.

Zadara customers have the flexibility to select the drive types and RAID levels for their storage. Users are configured with their own unique set of SSDs and HDDs that are private and not shared with anyone else. This gives single-tenant performance at multi-tenant prices and avoids the ‘noisy neighbor’ problem (where users competing for resources can degrade each other’s storage performance). On-demand addition of drives, upgrading of storage controller performance, or switching from disks to SSDs is as simple as clicking a button on the dedicated online management interface. Zadara users can also remove drives, downgrade controller performance, move from SSDs to disks, and fine tune other storage needs – allowing agility and control in a flexible, elastic, pay-as-you-go model.

“Our rapid expansion of European business and coverage is a demonstration of the high demand for our value-added VPSA solutions,” said Noam Shendar, VP of business development, Zadara. “Azure users in Europe can now easily access fully-featured, on-demand, enterprise-grade block and file storage with a 100% data availability SLA and only a one-hour commitment.“

“We are pleased to see Zadara Storage continuing to complement the Azure capabilities to provide our mutual customers even greater functionality,” said Yousef Khalidi, distinguished engineer, Microsoft Azure. “By leveraging the power of Azure ExpressRoute, customers in our European region now have access to even more enterprise storage options through the Zadara portfolio.“

“I am more excited for this than I am for anything else regarding cloud technology right now,” said Hans Olav Stjernholm, cloud architect, LINK Mobility AB. “We can’t wait to use the Zadara storage with Azure West Europe.“