Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a great storage and cloud computing solution. Zadara Storage accelerates their best features and adds additional enterprise-grade features to make AWS a data center-grade solution.
Let’s take a quick look at the four key categories where you can take advantage of Zadara Storage capabilities: Volume Size, File Storage, Services Provided, and Deployment Options.
Volume Size
While Amazon offers 16TB of storage, Zadara can manage over 100TB. Regardless of how large your workload is, the number of files, or your projected growth, Zadara can fit anyone’s needs delivering ease of management.
File Storage
When looking at file storage, Amazon offers NFS while Zadara offers both NFS and SMB. While file-based storage is good for some applications, many applications must run on block-based storage. Zadara gives you the flexibility to support both protocols in a single, seamless solution.
Advanced Features
Services provided is where you really begin to see the benefit of Zadara with Amazon in that Zadara provides advanced enterprise-class storage features such as replication, snapshots, clusters, encryption, and multi-zone high availability all within a multi-tenant environment with single-tenant isolation (no “noisy neighbors!”). Unique features such as Backup to S3 (B2S3) deliver convenient, fully automated, space efficient backups on Amazon’s durable and affordable S3 service, with a push of a button.
Deployment
Lastly, AWS and Zadara can both be deployed in the cloud; but for those who like to keep their storage close to home, Zadara offers an on-premises option which has become increasingly popular. Even though the storage sits on your site, it is still fully managed by the Zadara operations team and charged on-demand in your own data center.
This is where Zadara really complements Amazon Web Services in that they add the bonus of enterprise storage as-a-service. Zadara’s team monitors your storage 24/7 and helps you make decisions and adjustments to fit your storage needs as you grow (and sometimes shrink) your capacity. Not only that, but when scaling your storage, it will occur in the background and your applications and users will be unaffected.
Together, Zadara and Amazon Web Services can provide a solution that’s reliable, flexible, consistent, and most importantly secure and affordable.
*Zadara Storage is an AWS storage competency partner.
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