Strategic Alliance Between Zadara and Megazone

Zadara Storage Ltd. and Megazone Corporation, a Korean cloud-specialized IT company, announced a strategic alliance.

The collaboration between the two companies was designed to meet customers’ needs for performance, high-capacity enterprise cloud storage solutions. Zadara is a worldwide vendor of enterprise STaaS, providing performance, highly available block, file and object storage with predictable QoS. The company is an Advanced Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), and Megazone is an APN Premier Consulting Partner.

The firm’s cloud and software-defined VPSA Storage Arrays deliver elastic, multi-tenant enterprise SAN, NAS and object storage technology for peta-scale primary and secondary storage. With isolated resources, data security, management control and predictable performance, these rrays meet SLAs, even in cloud deployments. Providing a flexible and cost-effective storage infrastructure for enterprises, SMBs and start-ups, VPSAs also are available as fully-managed On-Premises as-a-Service (OpaaS).

“I believe Zadara is one of the best cloud-based storage providers, with scalability as its competitive edge, which is able to meet the needs of domestic enterprise customers. We aim to capture the Korean enterprise cloud storage market, in cooperation with Zadara, by addressing the needs of our customers including the ones in financial and public sectors, who need to comply with local regulations, such as high-capacity, high-performance, SLA (Service Level Agreement) and indicating the physical location of data. In addition, we are planning on delivering integrated managed services in the meantime, including AWS Cloud implementation and operations, utilizing capabilities we have,” said Max Lee, CSO, Megazone.

“We are thrilled to be aligning with Megazone to support the dynamic and rapidly growing Korean market,” said Noam Shendar, VP and GM, hyperscale cloud business, Zadara. “The combination of the Zadara Storage Cloud with Megazone’s proven technical, marketing and sales capabilities is a winning recipe for local companies.“

The two companies conducted a co-marketing event and their consulting and engineering teams held a consultation session for on-site clients at AWS Cloud 2018 on January 18, 2018.

Megazone is a cloud-specialized IT company located in Seoul, South Korea, targeting to become a ‘Cloud Innovator’ with approximately 480 employees focused on ‘cloud’ as the next-gen business. Since its foundation in 1998, it has been delivering business experiences and know-hows in the IDC and hosting business. Leveraging this experience, it became a consulting partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and has contributed to the growth of the Korean cloud market ever since. Later on in 2015, the firm became the first APN Premier Consulting Partner in Korea among only 55 others worldwide and has been providing cloud services to Korean customers as well as global customers worldwide, maintaining its position as the biggest partner in Korea. It is currently offering ‘Cloud One-Stop’ service across the full life cycle based on the holistic methodology, including cloud adoption, implementation, deployment, operation, security/backup, 24/7 support, managed services and optimization, to more than 500 customers e.g., LG Electronics, Nexon, Webzen, Gamvil, Com2us, SK Planet, SM Entertainment, CJ O!Shopping and Doosan Group.