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Zadara Storage Named one of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies In America” by Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2016 Entrepreneur 360™ List Honored for Its Industry Impact, Innovation, Growth and Leadership IRVINE, CA – November 22, 2016 – Zadara Storage was recently recognized as one of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” by Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur 360™ List, the most comprehensive analysis of private companies in America.
Based on this study forged by Entrepreneur, Zadara Storage is recognized as a well-rounded company that has mastered a balance of impact, innovation, growth and leadership. “We are honored to rank nationally among the fastest growing and most innovative firms in so many industries,” said Kevin Liebl, vice president of marketing for Zadara Storage. “By pioneering an elastic, scalable, cost-effective Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) solution for data center-grade applications, we are helping to transform the enterprise IT industry so that companies everywhere can better align their infrastructure for a changing world.”
Zadara Storage provides enterprise-grade Storage-as-a-Service, available either on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid configurations – with capabilities not found in other cloud-deployed solutions. Its family of high-performance, SLA-guaranteed solutions support any data type (block, file, object) in any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid) with any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift).
The solutions are provided on a pure OpEx-basis without leases, upfront costs or lengthy commitments. Users receive isolated resources with the economic and elastic benefits of multi-tenancy, but the security and guaranteed performance of a single-tenant experience. iSER, Elastic Flash Cache and Docker services drive even higher overall performance. “Our annual evaluation offers a 360-degree analysis of the current private-business landscape,” explains Lisa Murray, chief insights officer of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. “Top performers are determined by how well-rounded they are in four key operative areas. Entrepreneurship is a complex endeavor— this listing recognizes those who have mastered the challenge and are thriving this year.”
Honorees were identified based on the results from a comprehensive study of independently-owned companies, using a proprietary algorithm and other advanced analytics. The algorithm was built on a balanced scorecard designed to measure four metrics reflecting major pillars of entrepreneurship— innovation, growth, leadership and impact. For additional details on the Entrepreneur 360 List and the companies recognized, visit: entrepreneur.com/360companies Click to Tweet: .@ZadaraStorage makes the @Entrepreneur360 list as entrepreneurial leader!
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Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Oile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others.
Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter. Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications): US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk
Zadara Storage Adds Support for Google Cloud Platform, Joins Google Cloud Partner Program Google Cloud Platform users can now access Zadara’s award-winning Storage-as-a-Service IRVINE, CA – November 2, 2016 – Zadara™ Storage, the award-winning provider of enterpriseclass storage-as-a-service (STaaS) today announced that it has added support for Google Cloud Platform, enabling customers to leverage the enterprise-grade functionality of the Zadara Storage Cloud. Zadara Storage also announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Program.
Zadara Storage integration with Google Cloud Platform enables organizations to access enterprise-grade storage from the Google Cloud Platform compute environment through the Zadara Cloud Storage architecture. Google users now have the option to select Storage-as-aService (STaaS) from any location (cloud/hybrid/on-premise), any data type (block, file, object), and any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift) with all of the enterprise-grade data protection features they would expect from traditional, CapEx-based storage arrays. With Zadara’s multi-cloud concurrent access, users get the flexibility to connect to the most appropriate service, as needed. “Zadara Storage has become a leader in the growing public and private cloud storage market by offering a unique combination of enterprise-class storage in a completely flexible, pure OpExbased as-a-service model,” said Simon Robinson, vice president of infrastructure with 451 Research.
“By adding Google Cloud Platform to their current support for AWS, Microsoft Azure and many others, they have effectively covered the public cloud market.” “The market is clearly migrating from CapEx-based to OpEx-based public and private storage solutions,” said Frank Berry, CEO, IT Brand Pulse. “With this announcement, Zadara Storage has positioned itself perfectly in this market by supporting all of the major cloud service providers as well as their unique On-Premise as-a-Service (OPaaS) offering.”
“We are excited to add Google Cloud Platform to our list of supported Cloud Service Providers,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder of Zadara Storage. “By adding Google Cloud Platform to our connectivity options, we are executing our vision of creating solutions that are easy to use, ubiquitous, agile, and always aligned with our customer’s businesses.” Click to Tweet: .@ZadaraStorage adds @Google_Cloud Platform to list of supported clouds ZadaraCloud #GoogleCloud http://bit.ly/ZadaraGoogleCloud
Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Mile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others. Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter. Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications): US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk
Impress Group deploys Zadara Storage to Support Growing VMware Environment Replaces aging storage arrays with Zadara VPSA to address performance, manageability and scalability IRVINE, CA – October 25, 2016 – Zadara™ Storage, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS) today announced that the Impress Group has replaced their traditional storage arrays with the scalable Zadara VPSA™ Storage Array to support their growing demand for high-performance shared storage. By working with Zadara partner CDC, the Impress Group has architected a storage infrastructure that eliminates prior performance and scalability limitations.
The Impress Group is a leading media group, consisting of a holding company, Impress Holdings, Inc., and 12 operating companies. The company’s storage infrastructure was based on servers with local disk storage and traditional NFS-based shared storage. As the company grew, they recognized they had significant limitations with performance, scalability and manageability. The Impress Group worked closely with their technology partner CDC to find a solution that would enable the company to scale and support their growing demand for VMware storage resources.
After reviewing a variety of industry-leading solutions, the company chose the Zadara VPSA Storage Array to support their growing VMware storage needs. “The Zadara Storage VPSA provides high-availability using complete redundancy and nondisruptive failover,” said Tokuyuki Yokota, engineer, Impress, Professional Works. “The VPSA also leverages industry-leading I/O technologies such as iSER and high-speed SSD caching to optimize VMware performance. We were extremely impressed with the overall performance.
Finally, the centralized management capabilities made the solution an easy decision for us. We have been able to address all of our immediate and future requirements – all while reducing administrative and operating costs.” 1 “At CDC, our goal is to combine best of breed technology to create unique solutions for our customers,” said Yuki Sakamoto, vice president at CDC. “We were pleased to be able to provide the Zadara Storage VPSA architecture to the Impress Group. The Zadara Storage VPSA was the perfect solution to address their challenging storage requirements." “The Impress Group is an excellent example of a customer who experienced the limitations of traditional storage and were able to remove those obstacles by deploying Zadara Storage,” said Dani Naor, vice president, international sales at Zadara Storage. “By properly aligning their storage resources, the Impress Group is now enabling, rather than inhibiting, growth.” Click to Tweet: .@ImpressGroup deploys @ZadaraStorage to Support Growing
Environment – http://bit.ly/ImpressDeploysZadara About Zadara Storage Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, file and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others. Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter. Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications): US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk
By deploying the Zadara Storage VPSA On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS) solution, Netrepid has been able to leverage the economic and scalability benefits of the cloud, while keeping their data on-site within their data center.
Zadara Storage Named as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner Recognized for technological innovation, intellectual property, and disruptive business model with its Flexible Enterprise Storage as a Service (STaaS) offering NEWPORT BEACH, CA – June 9, 2016 –
Zadara™ Storage the provider of enterprise-class storageas-a-service (STaaS) was named by Red Herring as one of its Top 100 North America award winners, an annual listing that recognizes the leading private companies from the region and celebrates these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.
Red Herring Top 100 America enlists outstanding entrepreneurs and promising companies. It selects the award winners from approximately 1,200 privately financed companies each year in the US and Canada. Since 1996, Red Herring has kept tabs on these up-and-comers. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Salesforce.com, and Palo Alto Networks would change the way we live and work.
“Selecting the North American Top 100 list was once again a very difficult process,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “The caliber of companies and the accomplishments demonstrated by the candidates was very impressive. But after much thought, rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across North America to finalize on the North America winners. We believe Zadara Storage embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture.
As a repeat winner, Zadara Storage should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.” Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation and intellectual property, DNA of the founders, business model, customer footprint and addressable market. A review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowed Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in North America, complement this assessment of potential.
“We are honored to be selected by Red Herring for this prestigious award for the second year in a row,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage. “We are pleased to be listed alongside previous winners such as Google, Skype, YouTube and eBay. Zadara’s success can be attributed to providing a unique and differentiated Zadara Storage Cloud solution to a rapidly growing market that is transitioning from rigid CapEx storage to flexible and agile OpEx Storage-as-a-Service.”
Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, file and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage.
Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others.
Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications):
US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com
EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk 2
Zadara Storage Debuts the Zadara Cube “One-Click” Enterprise Storage Array Offering Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) simplicity and convenience, via the AWS Marketplace IRVINE, CA – June 7, 2016 –
Zadara™ Storage, the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS) today announced the Zadara Cube, a breakthrough in ease-of-use and immediacy. Based on its award-winning VPSA™ Storage Array technology, Zadara Cube offers the same performance, reliability and full set of data management features as standard VPSA Storage Arrays, yet with the ultimate in simplified provisioning. Ordering and configuration are accomplished via the simple and straightforward Amazon Web Services (AWS) 1-Click Launch interface, resulting in automatic, pushbutton creation of new storage instances. As an added convenience, all Zadara Cube charges appear on customers’ AWS bills alongside other AWS services consumed.
The consolidated bill means a one-stop shop for industry-leading AWS cloud services, with a single monthly payment. Available now via the AWS Marketplace in 7 regions (US West, US East, Dublin, Frankfurt, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney), the Zadara Cube comes in 5 varieties. Based on their needs, customers can choose between NAS (Mile-based) and even higher-performance, all-SSD SAN (block-based) arrays.
Customers also have choices of usable capacity ranging from 1.6TB to 30TB. Every Zadara Cube includes a free, no obligation, 7-day trial and is compatible with Zadara’s OnPremise-as-a-Service (OPaaS) VPSA storage service for a complete hybrid cloud solution. To experience the Zadara Cube, visit the Zadara Storage AWS Marketplace page here: bit.ly/ZadaraCube. 1 “We are excited to be able to offer the Zadara Cube through the AWS Marketplace,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder of Zadara Storage. “The addition of the Zadara Cube is yet another avenue for AWS customers to enjoy the power of the Zadara Storage Cloud.
Users can now choose the convenience of the AWS Marketplace to launch a Zadara Cube, or visit the Zadara website to launch a full-featured Zadara VPSA block or Mile storage service, or a ZIOS private object storage service.” Click to Tweet: Zadara Storage Debuts Zadara Cube “One-Click” Enterprise Storage Array - http://bit.ly/ZadaraDebutsOneClick
Storage Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Mile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On-Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others.
Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Zadara Storage Media Contacts (A3 Communications):
US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com
EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk 2
Vanson Bourne Survey Reveals Most Influential Decision-Makers in Cloud Storage Migrations Survey unveils the varying influence of CIOs, CFOs and CTOs in Germany and UK.
LONDON, UK – May 24, 2016 – A Vanson Bourne survey which examined IT decision makers within businesses of more than 1,000 employees in Germany and the UK, has revealed some striking discrepancies between the two countries and within the vertical industries represented by the respondents.
The poll, commissioned by Zadara™ Storage, the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-aservice (STaaS), asked IT executives who, within their company, is most likely to be responsible for making decisions when it comes to migrating storage to a cloud-based model. The CIO has more authority in Germany than in the UK Overall, the survey revealed that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are the most influential executive when it comes to making decisions about the switch from on-premise to cloud storage.
Across Germany and the UK combined, 38 percent indicated that the CIO is the most influential within the company. However, in Germany this percentage rose to 45 percent vs. 30 percent in the UK, suggesting that in the UK other executives are more involved in the decision-making process. This trend is bolstered by the finding that a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the UK is four times more likely (17 versus four percent) than their German counterpart to be involved in decisions about adopting a cloud-based approach. “What the survey has revealed is that the CIO in Germany tends to exert much more influence over decision-making around cloud storage than his or her UK counterpart. This is consistent with our own observations and experience of working in these two leading EMEA markets,” commented Dani Naor, vice president international sales at Zadara.
When looking at different industries in each country, the role of the CIO changes dramatically. Taken as an average across all industries this figure is 45 percent. But curiously, within the manufacturing sector, this figure rises to 72 percent. Meanwhile, CIOs in UK companies within the manufacturing sector are responsible for making decisions when it comes to moving IT storage to a cloud-based model in just 24 percent of cases.
The Zadara survey highlighted that in the UK, in just one percent of cases do the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the finance team play a part in decision-making around shifting storage to the cloud. Conversely, in Germany CFOs are comparatively active in this area, with 14 percent of respondents indicating that they play a part in these discussions. This suggests that financial benefits are higher on the wish list for changing to cloud storage in Germany than they are in the UK, where such decisions seem to depend more on the technology side.
In both countries the CIO, CFO and the finance team or CTO is responsible for decision-making: in 48 percent of the cases in the UK and 63 percent of the cases in Germany. This suggests that in Germany storage decision-making is often the responsibility of those in more senior positions. This could be because organizations within the UK tend to have a more horizontal structure when compared with those in Germany. How the role of the CIO varies by sector The survey was based on respondents within the financial services, manufacturing, retail, distribution, transport and other commercial sectors. When taken together, around half (48 percent) of all respondents in Germany and the UK within the manufacturing sector indicated that the CIO has influence over decision-making in moving IT storage to a cloud-based model, while this figure was just 34 percent in financial services and 26 percent in retail, distribution and transport. This suggests that in financial services and in retail, other teams and players exert considerable influence over decision-making. However, in the manufacturing sector, the CIO has significantly more authority.
When taking all respondents across all sectors and in both countries, just eight percent of respondents indicated that the CFO and finance team influence decision-making. However, this figure was around one fifth (18 percent) in the retail, distribution and transport sector, suggesting that the CFO and influence team regard the cloud as a highly effective cost-saving tool in this competitive sector. The storage or cloud team is approximately three times more likely to have influence over decision making in moving IT storage to a cloud-based model in the financial services sector than it is in the manufacturing sector. This suggests that there is a higher expectation for CIOs in the manufacturing sector to demonstrate return on investment (ROI), while in other sectors this is more often a shared 2 responsibility. It is also indicative that manufacturing companies do not have their own dedicated cloud teams.
The results could indicate that influence companies are more likely to have a dedicated storage or cloud team.” About Zadara Storage Zadara Storage offers enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) through the award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. It can be deployed at any location (cloud, on-premise or hybrid), supporting any data type (block, Rile and object) and connecting to any protocol (FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift). The VPSA™ service provides enterprise SAN and NAS while the ZIOS™ service delivers private object storage. Zadara provides resource isolation, exceptional data security, and management control. Zadara is available via OPaaS (On Premise-as-a-Service) and through a variety of partners including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and others.
Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter. Media Contacts (A3 Communications): US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk
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Docker as a High-Performance Enabler for Cloud Storage
February 9, 2016 http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/02/09/docker-as-a-high-performance-enabler-for-cloud-storage/ by Oded Kellner, Vice President of Product Management, Zadara Storage http://www.enterprisetech.com/author/doug/
The container-based service Docker is gaining massive momentum in the industry, and for many good reasons. The current appeal of Docker http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Docker-storage-and-virtual-storage-requirements-differ stems from issues associated with running VMs, namely that each one has to be provided with virtualized memory and storage resources. Containers make it far easier to run enterprise-grade services and address concerns for data portability, scaling, processing, performance, extensibility and latency.
When it comes to storage, however – there’s a rub. Early implementers of Docker utilizing storage applications say that accessing this storage is the most significant challenge in working with Docker, apart from designing the Docker containers themselves. Typically, containers perform a task on the data stored within them, and then disappear, which can be problematic if the data in a container has to be permanent.
Storage options for Docker implementation are nascent, yet emerging modalities appear to follow two distinct approaches. The usual approach is to place storage in compute. Flip this concept around and place the compute into the storage, and we are getting into a very interesting area of exciting new options for high performance enterprise-grade cloud storage.
Docker Storage Options in the Cloud - Storage in Compute
This is currently the most common way of using Docker, mostly because it is a rather simple way of implementation into existing architectures. Docker is pointed at the local storage of the server on which it’s running (this is how one would be using Docker in a public cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure).
Given that server storage is local, as implemented by most cloud providers, this approach offers neither high availability (HA) nor sharing. Another downside is that this approach creates isolated islands of storage within the physical servers. When one application runs out of space, it cannot access excess capacity allocated to another application.
An additional concern is that in widely distributed systems, even with Docker containers, there can be a lack of privacy and isolation, which are important for applications hosting sensitive information or requiring high Quality of Service (QoS) (due to noisy neighbors).
Compute inside the Storage
When it comes to cloud storage, perceptions exist that performance and QoS will be less than on-premise, traditional arrays. While this perception is not necessarily always accurate, improving overall performance is generally a priority, regardless of the architecture. There are multiple ways to achieve this and enabling Docker right inside the storage is one such unique approach. By placing the compute right inside the storage, users can bypassing networking, and achieve practically zero latency between the processor and the storage in the cloud.
There are several important advantages to this approach, especially for high availability and high performance needs.
The data doesn’t have to travel over a network that connects servers and storage if the application is running inside the storage and outputs right into the storage.
One of the main advantages of centralized storage is that it’s shared. That means that the same data set can be accessed by multiple containers and/or virtual machines. For data sets like map data, this is a requirement. Without it, each container would need its own copy of the map data.
Despite many Docker use cases being ephemeral and local, certain common applications – such as media transcoding – require persistence. In those instances, the data needs to be shared by, and to, multiple VMs and containers and the same data needs to be persistent (the resulting transcoded videos need to be available for streaming after the container has finished transcoding). Docker is an elegant solution for this, because it can be programmed to be launched when needed (e.g., when a new media file is added) and then terminated upon completion (e.g., when the transcoding is done).
Since the containers run inside the storage, they give users the ability to write code that adds to the storage functionality. By using containers within the storage, customers can quickly modify, expand and customize the storage behavior and properties, by introducing code for new functionality.
Traditional storage solutions keep and protect the data, but are not aware of the data content. With Docker, it’s relatively easy to write code that runs within the storage and looks into the data, for number of useful purposes like:
· Indexing of Big Data for quick future search
· Search for illegal content
· Security related scans
· Data format change – for instance converting multimedia file formats (different video/images standards and resolutions)
Containerization is allowing savvy IT teams to extend a storage service in such fundamental ways – without forcing users to take a step backward in enterprise-grade features that are critical to performance. We’ve only just begun to see its utility and benefits for high-performance applications, as enterprises find new Docker-based solutions to their business challenges every day.
*Oded Kellner is Vice President of Product Management at Zadara Storage http://www.zadarastorage.com/, an enterprise Storage as a Service (STaaS) player and early adopter of containers for high performance cloud storage*
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