Today Zadara Storage announced the next evolution of our storage platform – Zadara On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS). We pronounce it ‘OPUS’ (yep, just like this).
OPaaS brings the same block and file storage that we’ve been running for three years to support customers of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and other public clouds to private data centers.
OPaaS finally brings a collection of cloud inspired features to on-premises storage –
- Storage delivered as a service, including a SLA.
- Pay only for what you use, metered by the hour with complete flexibility. 100% OpEx
- Replicate from on-premises storage into the public cloud and vice versa.
- Never migrate your data again, Zadara automatically replaces the hardware under your data set on-line and in perpetuity.
- Strong resource isolation – one workload can’t impact the performance of another so you can bring in new applications without slowing down existing ones.
In the last ten years we’ve seen huge changes in the way enterprise IT acquires and uses compute and networking resources; compute virtualization and software-defined networking are now de rigueur. Traditional storage vendors have failed to keep up with these changes, and most SANs you find today are basically the same beast they were 10 or even 15 years ago (OK, they’ve gotten bigger). It’s time for that to change.
Enterprise storage customers shouldn’t be forced to pay for disk and controller resources they aren’t using right now. They should be able to reap the financial benefits of reducing their storage footprint while at the same time knowing they can grow that footprint easily. Public clouds are an incredible business enabler; storage sub-systems should make it easy to securely use data in any public cloud or to isolate it completely. The idea that storage administrators have to migrate data every time they replace an array is laughable; even worse is the current ‘state of the art’ solution – add a storage virtualization layer in the storage network, it just makes the problem worse! Traditional SANs do a horrible job of isolating the impact of one workload from another, leaving that as an often futile exercise for the storage administrator when it should be a basic feature of any array.
Over the next several days I’ll dive more deeply into the details of Zadara’s OPaaS solution on this blog. But if we’ve already brought you to that ‘aha’ moment, an understanding that enterprise storage can be better, more agile, flexible and done the right way, get in touch with us (craig@zadarastorage.com) or here: https://www.zadarastorage.com/get-started – we can help.
