Zadara Unveils VPSA Service 

Zadara Storage, Inc. today unveiled a major release of its Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service that makes enterprise-grade unified SAN and NAS cloud storage a reality. The VPSA Enterprise Suite is a significant platform upgrade that adds data center-grade SAN and NAS features that were previously unavailable in the cloud and that are already deployed by Zadara users today. Backed by the new features, Zadara, through its innovative colocation arrangement in partnership with the world’s leading service providers such as AWS, Equinix and Dimension Data, now becomes the first storage company to support Tier 1 primary storage for low latency, high IOPS applications such as databases and CRM in the cloud on dedicated drives, using virtual controllers and separated networking. These features are affordably purchased and deployed by the hour, as a private or hybrid cloud, dedicated colocation solution, or service provider offering.

As organizational executives seek cloud economics without the downsides of either cloud storage (lack of QoS and granular control) or traditional enterprise storage (high cost and inflexibility), Zadara’s new VPSA Enterprise Suite allows organizations to have it all, without compromise. Using Zadara, organizations now can achieve both cloud scale and cloud economics, with the high availability, clustering, privacy, predictability and control they expect from on-premise traditional hardware purchases.

Zadara’s VPSA Enterprise Suite adds support for features formerly only available from costly, dedicated, on-premise hardware including low-impact snapshots with read/write clones, SSD read/write cache, thin provisioning and remote asynchronous replication. With these features, storage administrators enjoy a much higher degree of granular control with a wider range of high-availability, low-latency applications with greater elasticity:

• Expansive data protection options including snapshots, clones and remote mirrors for enhanced business continuity
• Low-impact snapshots for quick and easy data protection and recovery
• Customized snapshot creation policies, allowing users to create data protection policies tailored to their specific business requirements
• Remote mirroring for disaster recovery and multi-geography collaboration
• Repository Storage with screaming performance, for those Big Data and Media needs that fall in the middle ground between primary active and archival storage, using Zadara’s large repository drives colocated at AWS data centers around the world

Through its global footprint - the company’s Storage as a Service offering is available in AWS US East and US West, AWS Japan and AWS Europe, as well as at Equinix and Dimension Data Cloud (formerly OpSource) data centers in the US - Zadara allows customers to assemble their ideal storage configuration like building blocks. IT managers choose the drives and controllers they need, and provision and change them online in minutes – managing them from a private management console.