Zadara Storage is changing the game by bringing the information technology industry and enterprise storage to a whole new level. Zadara’s storage-as-a-service solution helps eliminate IT headaches by fully managing your storage for you. All this, with no compromise: you still get all the great features you would expect from a traditional storage system. Here, we break it down for you in the 4 most important aspects: time, cost, scalability, and commitment.
Time
Who has time these days? Not me. In 2015 we are busier than ever and Zadara realizes that. In addition to offering storage-as-a-service where we free up a lot of time by monitoring and managing your storage, deploying your Virtual Private Storage Array takes as little as 2 minutes from ordering to using. Our on-premises solution takes slightly longer at 2-4 weeks as we need to ship you the hardware. Regardless, traditional storage can take anywhere from 6 to 9 months before you’re ready to use. This is because the traditional ownership models means you must take time to evaluate, negotiate, procure, install and bring up.
Cost
Reducing storage costs is where Zadara really blows away the competition. Many traditional storage providers require years of commitment (more on that later) which results in a very large bill costing hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars. All that up-front money leaves very little wiggle room with the rest of your budget (if there’s any budget left). On top of that, more often than not you’re buying too much storage (to be safe and to avoid another prolonged procurement) which again results in overspending. With Zadara, we charge per actual usage per hour and bill on a monthly basis. No need to predict how much storage you’ll need or use as we only charge for what you use, not what you have.
Scalability
Only charging for the capacity you’re using leads me to the next point which is scalability. With many providers you are required to buy X amount of storage, up-front, and at full cost. There’s no reprieve for shrinking or expanding the amount of storage you’re using. Seems a little unfair, no? Typically, as businesses grow, so does the amount of data they use. Even so, not all businesses need to use all their storage space all the time and may want to scale back their usage at certain points (e.g., projects grow and shrink, businesses have off-seasons, customers come and go). Why pay for all that capacity when you only need some of it (and sometimes only part of the time)? Zadara’s solution allows you to grow and shrink your capacity usage as you wish with a click of a button, and pay only for what you’re using – no more, no less. We like to call this ‘pay as you grow.’
Commitment
Lastly, as humans, we tend to fear commitment. When it comes to storage this fear is justified, especially when it involves a lot of money and the future of your business. Zadara eliminates that fear by requiring only one hour of cloud commitment and 6 months of on-premises commitment. Unlike other storage providers that require 3-5 years of commitment (e.g., with CapEx depreciation timetables or multi-year leases), with Zadara it is easy to cancel.
At the end of the day, Zadara is your business partner. We’re not going to bully you into a long commitment where you spend so much time negotiating, installing, and configuring only to blow your entire budget on too many terabytes you never use. We’re here to lend a helping hand to get you set up quickly, pay for only exactly what you need, and grow and shrink as you please. And because you pay us on a monthly basis, you can be sure that we will take good care of you and re-earn your business every single day.
Seems like a pretty good deal, right?
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