Zadara Collaborates With Seagate

Zadara, Inc. is working with Seagate Technology Holdings plc to deploy zCompute, its elastic, enterprise-grade, expert-managed compute infrastructure, in Seagate’s storage-as-a-service (STaaS) Lyve Cloud platform.

Launched last year, Lyve Cloud provides always-on mass capacity storage and activation to deliver HA, cost predictability, and cloud flexibility. Seagate is broadening Lyve Cloud’s service offering to include Zadara zCompute, one component of Zadara’s fully managed edge cloud services, for modern workloads.

zCompute enables enterprises to develop, deploy, run and virtualize any application anywhere – whether colocation, private data center, public cloud, or at the edge. It is a complement to Seagate’s existing Lyve Cloud Object Storage, providing an equivalent cloud storage and compute experience as other cloud providers. It can be deployed along with Lyve Cloud object storage and provides cost savings.

“Zadara shares our vision for infrastructure-as-a-service,” said Ravi Naik, CIO and EVP storage services, Seagate. “Vendor lock-in is eliminated, simple, flexible deployment is enabled, and costs become predictable for the largest workloads. We designed Lyve Cloud to help enterprises overcome the cost and complexity of storing, moving and activating data, and collaborating with Zadara helps us to provide our customers with elastic compute resources that scale to their business needs.“

Specific zCompute features include:

• Flexible Consumption Model: Enterprise-grade, elastic cloud services, with zero CapEx cost burden. Avoid large investments in infrastructure, scale up or down as needed and only pay for what is consumed.
• Elastic Compute Down to a Single VM: Self-service instant-provisioning that scales down to well below the starting price and scale of competing cloud solutions.
• Workload Performance: Deliver a familiar agile x86 compatible cloud compute experience, with DevOps automation, in existing locations with zero Capex or refresh costs.
• Expert 24x7x365 Services: Managed support from Zadara’s global solution architect and DevOps teams.

“As workloads scale larger and larger, the costs to maintain them in public clouds becomes untenable,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder, Zadara. “Enterprises with petabyte scale workloads have become disheartened by their public cloud experience and want to move to the edge. The Zadara and Seagate collaboration addresses this, allowing for massive scalability with predictable performance and costs. Together, we deliver a powerful solution that combines simple integration and support, joint marketing and sales efforts, and tested, proven workloads.“

Zadara’s zCompute is available on Seagate’s Lyve Cloud.