Guest blog by Ben Foakes, Founder and Managing Director, BASE Media Cloud
We have all heard Albert Einstein’s quote “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. Intuitively we know this is true, but it is amazing how often we ignore this advice.
Traditionally, enterprise IT had to buy their own expensive hardware. Then, the cloud came along and showed us that it doesn't have to be that way. In the cloud, you eliminate the CapEx investment and rigidity of physical storage purchases. The cloud provides significant flexibility to grow and shrink as needed. If your business requirements change, you can adjust your IT resources accordingly. Additionally, there is no need to worry about hardware in the cloud because providers take complete responsibility for making sure everything works, including hardware and software deployment and upgrades - all behind the scenes.
Recently, Simon Robinson from 451 Research wrote an update about us. I hope you take the time to read it. It’s a thoughtful and considered view, and as you’ve come to expect from 451, balanced to show both the good and the not-so-good.
Yesterday AWS announced a limited preview of an intriguing new product, the Elastic File Service (EFS), and we congratulate AWS on this important milestone.
When Software Defined Storage (SDS) is sold using the same, old business model, it effectively nullifies the flexible advantages of SDS. It's time to take advantage of new business models to unleash agility and innovation.
The cloud offers unprecedented flexibility and agility, but it’s still full of shortcomings that have made migrating existing Enterprise applications to the public cloud either impossible, or extremely complicated and full of performance, availability and management compromises.
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).
It’s exciting times here at Zadara Storage – we recently announced our support for Microsoft Azure, and with it the availability of the first truly multi-cloud storage solution, our customer base is rapidly expanding. We’ve even been crowned ‘cool vendor’ by Gartner’s prestigious listing.
NAS in the cloud - your current options at AWS and other cloud providers
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