Zadara Partnering With Rakuten Mobile

Zadara Storage Ltd. has partnered with Rakuten Mobile, Inc. to offer broad storage solutions for its platforms and services, including the Rakuten Communications Platform.

The carrier leverages Zadara’s storage-as-a-service platform, which provides a managed data management solution designed for any data type, any protocol and for any cloud environment.

Zadara’s SDS platform enables Rakuten Mobile to:

Simplify data management operations with the ability to store any data type – block, file, object – from a single system
Ensure data availability, performance and security
Enable infinite, on-demand scalability
Deploy infrastructure and services quickly

“We are thrilled to partner with Zadara to power our diverse storage needs,” said Tareq amin, representative director, EVP and CTO, Rakuten Mobile. “Zadara has a strong track record providing storage solutions with impressive scalability, performance and uptime that are tailored for Rakuten Mobile’s cloud-native virtualized architecture.“

“The pioneers at Rakuten Mobile have re-imagined and deployed the first-of-its-kind, cloud-native mobile infrastructure, and we are proud to support this achievement,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO, and founder, Zadara. “No matter the data type, protocol, or location, we are committed to offering storage solutions for our customers’ most ambitious and complex initiatives.“

Rakuten Mobile selected Zadara to offer a broad, flexible, cloud-based storage solution. It needed storage in the form of a large grid, where disk capacity would not be stranded in one storage array when it was needed for another. In one platform, Zadara provides all 3 storage types and related protocols for Rakuten Mobile, including block storage (iSCSI), file storage (NFS, CIFS/SMB) and object storage (S3 & SWIFT APIs). With Zadara’s storage-as-a-service model, and native support for API and Kubernetes orchestration, Rakuten Mobile’s storage needs are managed by Zadara’s expert 24×7 support to reduce technology and operational risk.