As A Result of Q1 2014’s Rapidly Increasing Scale and Efficiency, Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array (VSPA) Service Now Delivers More Value than Ever
Irvine, CA – April 2, 2014 – Zadara™ Storage, Inc., provider of enterprise-class cloud storage as a service (STaaS) solutions, announced lower pricing for its flagship Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) offering that is available worldwide in ten locations across seven countries on 4 continents, at Amazon Web Services, Dimension Data, Equinix, CloudSigma, VIVAVO, KVH, CoreSite, SerenITaaS, and more partner data centers. Effective today, the per-drive pricing in Zadara’s VPSA offering was reduced by as much as 51%, depending on drive type. Zadara also announced that its award-winning Enterprise Suite of high-end features is now included with each VPSA at no additional cost.
At a time of increasing hardware performance with decreasing costs, Zadara’s enterprise storage continues to provide IT managers with heightened value and access to what remains the industry’s only capabilities for many critical features for enterprise applications to migrate off premises and into cloud deployments, whether public, hybrid or private. Concomitant price decreases will be delivered across the board in all geographies. Hallmark Zadara capabilities for such enterprise requirements as clustering, global asynchronous replication, and NFS and CIFS file sharing, are still a part of the VPSA service – and a major reason why so many accounts to date have moved mission-critical storage applications to Zadara’s enterprise Storage as a Service (STaaS) offering.
“This is not a belated April Fool’s prank. Our dramatic expansion of Tier 1 partnerships along with hardware cost decreases gives us even better operational efficiency, and we are passing along the savings to our customers,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage. “After concluding our third consecutive quarter of doubling revenues and accelerating growth, Zadara is equipped to act upon our commitment to offer the most exceptional customer value in an enterprise cloud storage solution. We’re making it even more of a no-brainer for accounts to move their business applications, with high QoS and scalability, to our proven pay-as-you-go OpEx-only enterprise storage as a service offering.”
Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array is colocated at partners’ facilities and connected to compute resources via high speed fiber lines. Drives are private and not shared so Zadara users can obtain single-tenant performance at multitenant prices and avoid the “noisy neighbor” problem (which occurs in competing services when other customers degrade storage performance). Expansion to more drives, or switching from disks to SSDs, is as simple as clicking a button on the dedicated online management interface provided to each customer. At any time Zadara users can also eliminate drives, adjust controller performance, and fine tune other storage needs on the fly – allowing agility and control in a flexible, pay-as-you-go model.
About Zadara Storage
Zadara™ Storage is a pioneer provider of enterprise storage as a service (STaaS), delivering high-performance, highly available and predictable (QoS) file and block storage, in a pay-as-you-go model for on-premise deployment and via global service providers.
The company’s patent-pending, software-defined Virtual Private Storage Arrays™ (VPSA™) deliver flexible, multi-tenant enterprise SAN and NAS technology for peta-scale primary and secondary storage. With isolated resources, exceptional data security, management control and predictable performance, VPSAs meet the most stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs), even in public cloud deployments.
The company’s as-a-service model offers enterprises, SMBs and startups a flexible, agile and cost-efficient storage infrastructure, available on-premise and through a wide range of worldwide cloud and colocation providers, including a value-added relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS). For more information visit www.zadarastorage.com.
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