SoftNAS for Amazon EC2, VMware and Hyper-V

SoftNAS, LLC announced the availability of its Professional Edition and Essentials Edition products, for Amazon EC2, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

It provides NAS for cloud computing that meets customer needs simply and affordably.

Available as software-as-a-service or as an in-house addition to a server room, SoftNAS is a seamless file storage solution. The industry has already taken notice: CRN included SoftNAS on its list of the top 10 hot storage technologies for 2013.

SoftNAS is the cloud storage OS. It is adaptable to any cloud computing environment or software configuration, whether true cloud platforms, such as Amazon EC2, or private clouds running VMware or Hyper-V. It provides ‘big data’ NAS capabilities at affordable prices for SMBs, data centers and MSPs and government agencies.

Administrators manage the software through a web-based GUI. In the world of storage solutions, SoftNAS is as close to plug-and-play as possible – just download, configure and go.

With small businesses especially, price is one of, if not the paramount consideration in every purchase decision. SoftNAS delivers a 65% lower TCO than comparable products.

"With SoftNAS, we are making powerful, complex storage technologies simple, reliable and affordable," said Bill Hood , founder and CEO of SoftNAS. "Instead of multiple devices or software deployments with steep learning curves, our technology was designed to work within existing architectures. Anyone who understands virtualization can have SoftNAS up and running in no time. It comes as no surprise to us that CRN put us on their list of the year’s hottest storage technologies."

With the SnapReplicate feature, SoftNAS has also staked a claim as an excellent small business DR tool. SnapReplicate checks the source drive against the target drive every 60s, updating the target drive as necessary. Users need not fear losing their data since SoftNAS is built with ‘out of the box’ capability to replicate your critical data. When storage is synced across multiple geographic locations, a disaster in one server room can be quickly recovered in another.

The software can be loaded onto any existing commodity server hardware. Alternatively, larger businesses can purchase their own SoftNAS Virtual Storage Appliance and manage every aspect of their NAS, file storage and backup needs. An in-house VSA can interface with desktop virtualization deployments like XenDesktop and VMware View, providing the most cost-effective, high-performance VDI storage available today.

Two free downloads are available, a 60-day free trial of the SoftNAS Professional Edition, and the free SoftNAS Essentials Edition.