Faction and SoftNAS Partner

Faction, Inc., an enterprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud service provider offering hybrid, private, and public cloud solutions, announced its partnership with SoftNAS, LLC, a cloud storage software company.

Faction partners with SoftNAS to complement its NetApp storage portfolio to address a growing need for on-demand, enterprise NAS and cloud file gateway capabilities with NFS/CIFS shared storage in the cloud, a mainstay storage solution for customers moving to the cloud.

With Faction’s rebranding, the company introduced a flexible cloud computing portfolio designed the way customers want it – with deep access, broad customization capabilities and patented layer 2 private pathways to the Faction cloud. Faction’s core bundles called Cloud Blocs, are modular, flexible, and customizable so customers can design them with their network, processing and storage requirements. Storage is an essential component for enterprises of any size, so they can archive, backup and protect their business-critical data environments and applications.

“The SoftNAS addition to Faction’s portfolio, enables customers to receive a true differentiation on price performance for file gateway services on the front end of high-performance SAN such as NetApp E-series,” said Rick Braddy, CEO, SoftNAS. “As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption strategies, SoftNAS delivers powerful, frictionless software-defined storage solutions that protect business-critical data and keep applications running 24 x 7 x 365 across public, private and hybrid clouds.“

“By partnering with SoftNAS, we offer businesses the ability to simplify high performance storage solutions without sacrificing control of technology, vendors or IT budgets,” said Luke Norris, CEO and founder, Faction. “By deploying SoftNAS cloud on the front-end of solutions like NetApp E-Series products, our customers receive the best price-performance for NAS services in the cloud, while eliminating storage complexities and maximizing performance.“

“Cloud IaaS is one of the fastest-growing areas of cloud computing adoption. It is a maturing technology with mainstream adoption. Although most organizations use cloud IaaS for only a portion of their workloads, the percentage of workloads in cloud IaaS is growing rapidly,” wrote Lydia Leong, VP, distinguished analyst, Gartner. (1)

Customers working with SoftNAS and Faction can create customizable, platform agnostic cloud storage environments and leverage management portals to manage them. All of this is backed by the 100% money back SLA offered by Faction and the SoftNAS No Downtime Guarantee.

(1) Gartner, Technology Overview for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Lydia Leong, 30 June 2014.