SoftNAS Helps The Street, Financial News and Service Company

SoftNAS LLC announced that
The Street, Inc., a financial
news and services company founded by Jim Cramer and Martin Peretz,
was able to move out of its own data center and into the Amazon Web
Services cloud.

The company enables businesses to move to the cloud by delivering
the same data protection and performance that businesses have come to
expect and depend on in their own datacenters.

"The NAS in the cloud eliminates the final barrier that’s
held businesses back from full cloud adoption by properly protecting
what is arguably the most critical asset of every modern business –
it’s data," said Rick Braddy, SoftNAS founder and managing
partner. "We are excited to pave the way for customers
like The Street to complete the transition from costly in-house data
centers into the more affordable cloud."

Companies want to move some or all of their data and applications
out of traditional data centers and into the cloud to reduce costs
and improve business agility. The Street originally chose a popular
clustered file system to deploy on Amazon EC2, which according to an
IT consultant for The Street, led to "nothing but disastrous
issues." It suffered setbacks which resulted in taking
everything offline. The situation demanded a better storage solution
for AWS. The Street found SoftNAS and installed and configured it.

According to Stefan Chopin, CTO, The Street, "SoftNAS
provides the high-performance fault-tolerant file store we needed for
Amazon EC2. SnapReplicate is working great for real-time backups for
DR to another availability zone, and block replication scales and
handles our millions of files nicely. SoftNAS does everything we
need."

TheStreet.com and the company’s other websites and applications
are now operational in the cloud using AWS and SoftNAS.