Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage
Industry Storage as a service
Founded March 2011
Headquarters Irvine, California and Yokneam, Israel
Key people
 Nelson Nahum, CEO
Products Cloud storage
Website www.zadarastorage.com

Zadara Storage is a computer data storage company founded in 2011, with headquarters in Irvine, California.[1] The company develops computer software that it markets as 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 $3 million in start-up funding.[4] In 2012, the company introduced 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 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 $3 million 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 cloud storage 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) product 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.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Zadara Storage is bringing the flexibility and security of closed systems to the public cloud". startupbeat.com. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  2. ↑ "Zadara rolls out on-premise pay-per-use private cloud storage". zdnet.com. 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  3. 1 2 "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.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "Zadara Storage raises $7M to speed up Amazon's & Rackspace's clouds (exclusive)". venturebeat.com. 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014". venturebeat.com. 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  7. 1 2 "Zadara Adds Object Storage, Larger SSDs And FC Support". venturebeat.com. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  8. ↑ "USPTO Database - Virtual private storage array service for cloud servers". uspto.gov. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  9. 1 2 "Who is Zadara and what does it mean by a Virtual Private Storage Array?". theregister.co.uk. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  10. ↑ "6 Storage Solutions For Cloud-Based Archiving". crn.com. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  11. ↑ "Zadara Storage-as-a-Service Runs Docker Containers Directly Inside Storage". crn.com. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
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