Startup offers hefty storage with pay-per-use pricing
October 25, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licenses and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use – no more, no less. That model has been proven out extensively on the compute side, with services like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and a variety of other IaaS offerings on the market. But storage has been slow to catch up.
Sure AWS has Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Simple Storage Service (S3), but Ben Woo, an analyst at Neuralytix – and former IDC storage analyst – says for highly transactional databases and workloads, those don’t always cut it…
Zadara may be changing that. The company is a two-year old venture-backed startup that focuses on delivering a high-performance storage platform in a cloud pricing model. Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array (VSPA) provides a storage backend for input/output intense cloud applications like CRM and ERP systems. Zadara is looking to fill in the holes were platforms like EBS fall short for highly transactional databases and apps. The traditional option for storage-intensive apps has been an array from one of the big providers such as EMC or NetApp, Woo says. Zadara’s model introduces Tier 1 performance, but with pay-per-use pricing…
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