Zadara
| File:Zadara Storage logo.jpg | |
| Industry | Storage as a service |
|---|---|
| Founded | March 2011 |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Nelson Nahum, CEO |
| Products | Cloud storage, storage-as-a-service, on-premise-as-a-service, VPSA storage array, ZIOS object storage |
| Website | www |
Zadara Storage is a computer data storage company founded in 2011, with headquarters in Irvine, California.[1] The company develops computer storage-as-a-service, which can be used for cloud or on-premises servers, a model sometimes called private cloud.[2] The company also has a development office in Israel.[3]
History
Zadara Storage was founded in 2011 with $3M in start-up funding.[4] In 2012, the company introduced SAN/NAS-like scalable cloud-based storage to Amazon.com's public cloud customers. The storage was designed to be used as persistent storage in conjunction with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[1] The company started by selling block data storage for Storage Area Networks (SAN), and later added IP-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) for cloud customers.[1]
In July 2012 the company completed a $7 Million first funding round.[5] In August 2013, Toshiba's America Electronic Components (TAEC) division invested $3M in the company. Reports indicated that as part of the investment, Toshiba's disk drives would be used in Zadara's storage products.[3] In 2014, Zadara Storage was named a Cool Vendor by informational technology advisory firm Gartner.[6]
Products and services
Zadara Storage sells Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) cloud services to clients through its virtual Zadara Storage cloud, for which it holds a patent.[7][8] The operating software combines the company's proprietary software with third party software including OpenStack, and allows the storage to be distributed to different user or tenants in a multi-tenant environment.[9] The platform allows users to create private clouds consisting of multiple high-availability cluster virtual storage arrays.[9] In addition to its block and file storage services, the company also sells Amazon S3/OpenStack Swift-compliant object storage services, called ZIOS Object Storage.[7]
The Zadara Storage Backup to Amazon S3 (B2S3) solution allows automatic backups from Zadara Storage Cloud to Amazon S3-compatible storage.[10] Zadara Container Services is technology that embeds Docker containers into Zadara's storage arrays, to improve application performance.[11]
References
- ^ a b c "Zadara Storage is bringing the flexibility and security of closed systems to the public cloud". startupbeat.com. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Zadara rolls out on-premise pay-per-use private cloud storage". zdnet.com. 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ a b "Why you wanna go and put STaaS in their eyes? Toshiba pays $3m for Zadara". theregister.co.uk. 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Leveraging Amazon To Build a Cloud Storage Business: Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage (Part 2)". sramanamitra.com. 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Zadara Storage raises $7M to speed up Amazon's & Rackspace's clouds (exclusive)". venturebeat.com. 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014". venturebeat.com. 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
- ^ a b "Zadara Adds Object Storage, Larger SSDs And FC Support". venturebeat.com. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "USPTO Database - Virtual private storage array service for cloud servers". uspto.gov. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ a b "Who is Zadara and what does it mean by a Virtual Private Storage Array?". theregister.co.uk. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "6 Storage Solutions For Cloud-Based Archiving". crn.com. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Zadara Storage-as-a-Service Runs Docker Containers Directly Inside Storage". crn.com. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2016-08-12.