Faction and SoftNAS Partner to Deliver Enterprise Grade Cloud Storage Service
March 26, 2015
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Faction, an enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud service provider offering hybrid, private, and public cloud solutions, today announced its partnership with SoftNAS™, a leading cloud storage software company. Faction partners with SoftNAS to complement its NetApp storage portfolio and address a growing need for on-demand, enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) and cloud file gateway capabilities with advanced Network File System (NFS)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) shared storage in the cloud, a mainstay storage solution for customers moving to the cloud.
With Faction’s recent rebranding, the company introduced a flexible cloud computing portfolio designed the way customers want it — with deep access, broad customization capabilities and patented layer 2 private pathways to the Faction cloud. Faction’s core bundles called Cloud Blocs are modular, flexible, and completely customizable so customers can design them with their unique network, processing and storage requirements. Storage is an essential component for enterprises of any size, so they can archive, back up and protect their business-critical data environments and applications…
“The SoftNAS addition to Faction’s portfolio, enables customers to receive a true differentiation on price performance for file gateway services on the front end of high-performance storage area network such as NetApp E-series,” said Rick Braddy, CEO, SoftNAS. “As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption strategies, SoftNAS delivers powerful, frictionless software-defined storage solutions that protect business-critical data and keep applications running 24 x 7 x 365 across public, private and hybrid clouds.”
“By partnering with SoftNAS, we offer businesses the ability to simplify high performance storage solutions without sacrificing control of technology, vendors or IT budgets,” said Luke Norris, CEO and Founder of Faction. “By deploying SoftNAS Cloud on the front-end of solutions like NetApp E-Series products, our customers receive the best multi-tenant NAS performance for services in the cloud.”
“Cloud IaaS is one of the fastest-growing areas of cloud computing adoption. It is a maturing technology with mainstream adoption. Although most organizations use cloud IaaS for only a portion of their workloads, the percentage of workloads in cloud IaaS is growing rapidly,” wrote Lydia Leong, Vice President, distinguished analyst, Gartner. 1
Customers working with SoftNAS and Faction can create customizable, platform agnostic cloud storage environments and leverage management portals to easily manage them. All of this is backed by the 100% money back Service Level Agreement (SLA) offered by Faction and the SoftNAS No Downtime Guarantee.
For more information on Faction enterprise-grade cloud and storage services, please visit www.factioninc.com.