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Zadara Storage Debuts On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) Enterprise Storage - Fully-Managed SAN and NAS Private Cloud Storage With Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
August 2014 by Marc Jacob
Zadara™ Storage, Inc. announced the immediate availability of its VPSA™ On-Premise as a Service (OPaaS) solution, a groundbreaking private cloud storage as a service option that provides fully-managed enterprise SAN (block) and NAS (file) with consumption-based pricing and no need for capital expenditure. Proven in Zadara’s public cloud deployments over the last three years, VPSA OPaaS is physically delivered to any enterprise, colocation or service provider, and leverages Zadara’s patent pending Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) solutions, that is already deployed across four continents.
Zadara Storage’s VPSA OPaaS is the first SAN and NAS product that eliminates the need to invest capital dollars and staff, yet it offers all the benefits of traditional enterprise-class storage plus the flexibility, rapid and elastic scaling with a pay-as-you-go pricing as if this were a cloud-based solution. Finally, IT teams can buy storage the way they’ve always wanted – on demand. Zadara Storage’s VPSA OPaaS provides IT managers with their choice of SSD and HDD resources with the full ability to scale up or scale down instantly from an online console – and to replicate to Zadara Storage in public clouds worldwide to form hybrid clouds - but with the entire resource owned and maintained by Zadara, with included SLA, hardware replacement, remote monitoring and support.
Named in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage 2014 list, Zadara Storage designed its VPSA OPaaS for those organisations needing from 20 TB to multi-petabytes of primary storage applications requiring multi-tenancy with rock solid Quality of Service (QoS) and elasticity. Zadara manages all assets for the customer and bills them based on consumption, without upfront fees and with a minimum commitment of only six months. Also unique is the ability to form hybrid clouds by linking to Zadara Storage VPSA in public clouds including AWS and Microsoft Azure, in sites across the world. Zadara OPaaS is also well suited for applications that benefit from cloud-based disaster recovery, and cloud bursting where extra cloud computing resources are applied as needed to supplement on-premise environments.
