How Zadara Is Putting The Enterprise In The Storage Cloud

Grazed from SocalTech. Author: Benjamin F. Kuo.

While Internet and startup companies have widely adopted the cloud for both their computing and storage needs, enterprise companies are only now starting to widely adopt cloud services. However, there’s a number of startups–including Irvine’s Zadara Storage (www.zadara.com)–which are making easier and easier for enterprises and other businesses to adopt the cloud. We caught up with Nelson Nahum, a longtime storage industry veteran and CEO of the company, to learn where Zadara fits and how it’s helping to move enterprise customers to the cloud.

Explain what Zadara’s products are about?

Nelson Nahum: What we do, is enterprise storage as a service. Basically, what that means is we create software that runs on servers, which forms a cloud storage service. The unique capability of that cloud, is of course, to be a cloud storage solution. You can create a SAN or NAS array on the fly, and have the same capabilities of a traditional SAN or NAS array with dedicated drives and a dual controller, but with cloud economics…

We can create that instantly, you can pay for what you use, and we manage all of the hardware. We also are connected to the public cloud, to services like Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Dimension Data, and others, and can provide both on-premise private clouds. In a nutshell, it’s enterprise, storage-as-a-service, where you can pay per use, and get great scalability of the cloud…

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