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Moving to the Cloud: How to Make the Transition a Success

“The cloud” has been a buzzword for years now, and for good reason. Global data center traffic is projected to triple in the five years from 2013 to 2018, reaching nearly 9 zettabytes annually by that time. What’s more, a fast-growing segment of data center traffic is made up of cloud traffic, which is expected to account for more than 75% of data center traffic by 2018. So, why is everyone moving to the cloud, and how can you ensure success when you do?

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zadara_admin February 10, 2016
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Three Secular Changes in The Storage Industry

There are many changes in the storage industry happening now. Few people could have predicted that EMC, the market leader and storage giant of the industry could be in a position to be acquired, however that’s exactly what happened towards the end of 2015. In a move that shocked the industry, Joe Tucci and Michael Dell stood on the same stage and announced that Dell (the company) would acquire EMC, the pioneer of the modern storage industry.

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zadara_admin February 4, 2016
Zadara at Five Years

Five Years of Rapid Growth, Rooted Foundations and Global Expansion

Five years ago, a small group of us recognized that the storage industry was in turmoil. The trend of exponential user capacity growth that had dominated the industry for the past several decades was showing no sign of slowing down. To complicate matters even more, the value of the user data was also increasing rapidly. In other words, companies were becoming more and more dependent on storage that they could not properly manage. We decided there was a need for a new type of storage solution.

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zadara_admin February 1, 2016

Comparing AWS EBS vs. Zadara VPSA (And Why Zadara Doesn’t Sit on Top of EBS)

A recurring question our new customers ask is: “are you providing a storage solution on top of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS)?” While there are those vendors who employ this approach, Zadara delivers an enterprise solution by allocating individual physical drives to each customer that are completely isolated from those of other customers and from the EBS infrastructure.

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zadara_admin January 11, 2016
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Our 2016 Storage “Anti-Predictions”

As we enter 2016, this is a perfect time to reflect on what we can expect not to be said in the coming twelve months as we look to the future of enterprise storage. I’ve taken my top five anti-predictions and discussed them here as a light-hearted look forward to the year ahead.

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zadara_admin January 5, 2016
Thank you 2015

Looking Back on 2015 & Ahead to 2016

Reflecting back on 2015, Zadara has accomplished a lot. We’ve added new features such as Backup to S3 (B2S3) and Zadara Container Services (ZCS).  We have increased our drive capacities helping customers scale to even larger installations, and we have added countless other features providing an improved overall user experience. We are also working to launch another significant feature in Q1 of 2016 – stay tuned! On top of these enterprise-grade features, we’ve also increased our technology certifications with companies such as VMware.

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zadara_admin December 21, 2015