Zadara sets to boost its fully managed enterprise STaaS (storage-as-a-service) platform with the addition of NVMe capabilities, together with further "critical enhancements" promising significant benefits to customers.
NVMe brings faster data access, reduced power consumption and lower latency, addressing the limitations (and potential bottlenecks) of legacy storage interfaces. However, high device cost and interoperability issues keep the benefits of NVMe out of reach for many enterprises. The Zadara STaaS solution moves NVMe from a CapEx expenditure to a flexible consumption OpEx item, opening the door to larger scale adoption.
Furthermore, the Zadara platform includes object on-premises storage-as-a-service for next-generation applications, such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning and video-on-demand, among others. The company also offers a more compact option for storage nodes in ROBO and edge use cases, while remote clone functionality improves data mobility between arrays, across geographies, into clouds and between clouds. Security is included via embedded McAfee AV engine for on-file-access virus scans.
“Our customers demand real solutions that not only provide technical performance but also drive measurable business value,” Zadara says. “By offering the industry’s only complete hybrid cloud storage service, we are giving IT departments the ability to streamline operations and reduce capital expense, without sacrificing control, availability or performance. Data is the lifeblood of any organisation, and we believe that businesses should be able to focus on using their data-- and not worry about storing it.”