Zadara Storage Debuts On-Premise SAN and NAS Private Cloud Storage

Zadara Storage, Inc. announced the availability of its VPSA On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) solution, a private cloud storage as a service option that provides enterprise SAN and NAS without the need for any capital expenditure.

Proven in the company’s public cloud deployments over the last three years, the service is physically delivered to any enterprise, colocation or service provider, and leverages the patent pending VPSA solution, that is already deployed across four continents.

It is a SAN and NAS product that eliminates the need to invest capital dollars and staff, yet it offers all the benefits of traditional enterprise storage plus the flexibility, scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing as if this were a cloud based solution. Finally IT teams can buy storage on demand. It provides IT managers with their choice of SSD and HDD resources with the ability to scale up or scale down from an online console – and to replicate to Zadara in public clouds worldwide to form hybrid clouds – but with the entire resource owned and maintained by Zadara, with included SLA, hardware replacement, remote monitoring and support.

Enterprises and service providers alike are looking for SaaS that is simple and rapid to deploy, infinitely scalable, does not take up personnel time, and comes with a pay-per-use model. This represents a contemporary approach to storage. OPaaS is not a storage gateway, nor a CapEx workaround such as a lease, and does not affect the balance sheet. OPaaS also is not dependent on AWS, Azure or other cloud service providers. Instead, it is an elastic, managed NAS and SAN with cloud capabilities built on top of it.

“Zadara Storage’s OPaaS is like getting a chauffeured Rolls Royce where you pay by the mile – and can swap your ride as you drive along,” said Rajinder Basi, CEO, FlexiScale Ltd, a provider of a scalable cloud hosting infrastructure on demand. “We were about to spend a huge sum on a more traditional hardware storage infrastructure when we learned about Zadara’s VPSA OPaaS solution, and we gave it an immediate thumbs up because its OpEx business model matches exactly our own with the multitenancy, metering and billing features we need to run our business – allowing customers to scale out and down their infrastructure on demand. The solution has let us avoid a hefty CapEx outlay and gives us the flexibility to make sure we’re providing the perfect platform for the customer now, as well as in the future – while freeing us from the mundane grunt work of managing a storage infrastructure.“

Named in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage 2014 list, the company designed its VPSA OPaaS for those organizations needing from 20TB to multi-petabytes of primary storage applications requiring both multi-tenancy with rock solid QoS and elasticity. It manages all assets for the customer and bills them based on consumption, without upfront fees and with a minimum commitment of only six months. There is also the ability to form hybrid clouds by linking to Zadara Storage VPSA in public clouds including AWS and Azure, in sites across the world. It is also suited for applications that benefit from cloud-based DR, and cloud bursting where extra cloud computing resources are applied as needed to supplement on-premise environments.

“This is IT the way IT managers want to buy it – managed, elastic, private and OpEx-only,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara. “Tens of thousands of organizations have applications that need to stay on premise and behind the firewall, but so far that has meant they’ve been excluded from many of the benefits of software-defined storage. No more. With Zadara’s OPaaS solution, IT teams are free to save time, budget and hassle while gaining the incredible elasticity and agility scale they need – with the control and privacy of on-premise deployments using a proven technology approach.“