Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array Available at Equinix Datacenters

Zadara Storage,
Inc., in cloud block storage that brought
private storage to the public cloud via Amazon
Web Services, Inc., Dimension
Data Holdings plc and other service providers, announced that their Virtual
Private Storage Array (VPSA) service is available at select Equinix, Inc. locations offering cloud
providers, services providers and enterprises co-located at Equinix, access to
local Enterprise storage as a service, obviating the need for up
front purchases and long-term commitments.

Zadara will be offering direct connection to its storage service inside Equinix
IBX data centers in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. Through this offering,
Equinix customers are able to establish a private network connection between
their IT infrastructure and the VPSA service in the same data center.

On-demand VPSA block and file storage
solution features virtual SAN/NAS with dedicated drives, dual controllers, RAID
level selection, volume-wise I/O throttling, volume sharing and clustering,
performance metering, and hourly usage billing. By providing an enterprise
storage service which can be instantly created, grown and shrunk, VPSA puts an end to expensive up-front purchases and scalability
headaches. Moreover, Zadara Storage is built for security and data privacy,
providing encryption both at-rest and in-flight, and dedicated hardware
resources and network for each client.

"As more
businesses look to companies such as Zadara for cost-effective, cloud-based
storage solutions to offload their IT infrastructure, it’s critical that these
services are offered from a secure, dynamic, and global platform as found with
Equinix," said Chris Sharp, GM of cloud and content at Equinix. "By offering direct connection inside
Equinix, Zadara offers enterprises the ability to tie directly into the Zadara
service over a private network connection and avoid the pitfalls from
traversing the public internet. We are thrilled to have them as part of
Platform Equinix, joining more than 4,000 companies and a rich ecosystem of
more than 300 cloud service providers."

"We are thrilled to work with
Equinix to launch the first enterprise SAN/NAS storage as service using
Equinix’s advanced cross connect and marketplace capability," added
Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder of Zadara Storage. "Now Equinix customers, both Enterprises and Service Providers, can add
SAN/NAS storage to their IT infrastructure with the price and elasticity of the
cloud."

VPSA is the storage of choice for demanding workloads, and designed
from the ground up for provision as a service, making it for cloud
providers, service providers, and enterprises alike. By combining the best of
traditional SAN and NAS, and cloud storage, Zadara Storage
goes beyond cloud block storage and creates an enterprise
storage solution available on-demand and by the hour.

Equinix customers now have secure, private access to
local enterprise storage, with the capacity and efficiency of the cloud, and at
a savings of up to 80%. VPSA is available at Equinix data centers in
Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley, with future plans deploy at other Equinix
data centers.