SAN Storage Provider SerenitaaS Distributing Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage, Inc., announced that SerenitaaS, sister company to Stratus Technology, a Markham, Ontario-based provider of storage solutions, now offers its Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) solution for block and file SAN and NAS services to its customers.

Already deployed by SerenitaaS at Equinix’s Toronto data center campus, SerenitaaS’ offering of Zadara Storage allows more organizations in Canada to enjoy the benefits of traditional on premises storage – including its performance, HA and security – with cloud-like scalability and superior economics. It allows local organizations to gain the flexibility and affordability of a cloud solution for either primary (for applications) or secondary (for repository) storage, yet with the QoS of traditional storage and the privacy of on premises infrastructure.

SerenitaaS’ relationship represents the third Equinix data center to offer Zadara’s storage as a service offering, and supports access to Zadara’s offering by many of Equinix’s 4,400+ customers via Equinix’ high-speed direct connections. SerenitaaS now can help users leverage Zadara’s cloud-deployed capabilities for enterprise storage, including features such as NFS, CIFS, clustering, large volume size support, instant snapshots with write-able clones, remote replication, data encryption and flash caching. Hence, customers now have even more choice in supporting global collaboration or DR requirements at Equinix facilities and via other partnerships, around the world, including on the US East Coast, and in Northern California, Zurich, Dublin, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.

With a steady increase in the demand for cloud economics, agility and scalability alongside the traditional benefits of on-premise storage systems, SerenitaaS is now positioned to leverage its expertise in storage architectures and deployments to enable a range of enterprises to move more mission-critical applications to Zadara Storage as an on premise SaaS solution, while achieving QoS and avoiding the need to purchase and deploy costly storage hardware – or risk unavailability or performance issues with their applications.

“As experts in storage architectures we’re highly impressed with the Zadara Storage as a Service offering as we’ve deployed it in several pilot applications and in our own systems,” said Glenn Cameron, CEO, SerenitaaS. “SerenitaaS’ highly personalized approach to building the right SAN or NAS for both large and small organizations combined with Zadara’s solution, can help more businesses in the Toronto area to transition a growing number of their applications to a cloud-enabled model with all the cloud economies and scale advantages.“

In cooperation with SerenitaaS and Equinix, Zadara has placed dedicated, flexibly deployed hardware at Equinix’s data center colocation facilities, with dedicated, high-speed network connections into SerenitaaS. Zadara’s approach provides dedicated disks, virtual controllers, and separate networking to achieve single tenant, predictable performance at a multitenant price. Each Zadara customer receives their own management interface from which they can add or eliminate disks, switch from disk to SSDs and back, adjust controller capacity, and fine tune their storage needs on the fly – allowing flexibility and control. Zadara storage at SerenitaaS is priced at the equivalent of about $0.13 per GB per month, billed by the hour and separately from SerenitaaS’ other services.

“For far too long, the applications that can really benefit from the cost-saving and agility-increasing advantages of the cloud have been landlocked at on-premise deployments for lack of enterprise-grade features, or because existing cloud storage approaches proved insufficient or delivered unreliable performance,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara Storage. “Our relationship with SerenitaaS will allow more service providers and enterprises in Canada to start moving business-critical applications to a proven, rock-solid and enterprise-capable cloud.“