The Technology Depot Expands Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service Portfolio

Zadara Storage Ltd, a provider of enterprise storage-as-a-service (STaaS), and The Technology Depot announced that Zadara’s VPSA Storage Array platform is being offered by The Technology Depot (Cloud Connect Solutions) as part of their expanded storage-as-a-service portfolio.

The offering is intended for US-based companies who are interested in migrating their existing CapEx storage to an OpEx-based cloud environment and international companies who are interested in hosting or replicating their data in Switch SUPERNAP cloud data centers.

Industry research has shown that the public cloud storage-as-a-service market is growing at approximately 25% per year, and by 2020 will capture 25% of a massive $50 billion in enterprise storage spending (source: IT Brand Pulse, February 2017).

This transition is driven by IT professionals recognizing that the traditional capital expense model of capacity acquisition and management cannot keep up with the storage needs of enterprise. Instead, IT organizations are being asked to reduce costs, while at the same time providing available, elastic, and reliable enterprise-grade storage.

The traditional model of evaluating potential vendors, buying, installing and maintaining disk arrays and then repeating the cycle every 3-5 years cannot support this goal.

“The U.S. market is following the global trend away from purchasing storage and looking for as-a-service solutions that provide agility, flexibility and economic savings,” said Brian Dean, CEO and CTO, The Technology Depot. “We have chosen to partner with Zadara Storage because of their unique product offering. With Zadara Storage, we can offer our customers enterprise-grade block, file and object storage services in a flexible pay-as-you-go business model.“

The service will provide California, Arizona and Nevada businesses an enterprise storage solution including Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS), DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS), Backup as-a-Service (BaaS), as well as server and virtualization services. Customers will have the option to replicate their data to remote Zadara Storage locations worldwide.

“We are thrilled to be launching this new service with our business partner The Technology Depot,” said Doug Jury, VP, solution sales, Zadara. “Enterprises and cloud service providers require flexible storage solutions that align with their business needs and support their growing amount of information assets. The new storage services being offered by The Technology Depot will address the increasing demand for OpEx-based storage solutions and provides compelling economic value that differentiates them in the marketplace.“