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HOUSTON–SoftNAS®, the #1 best-selling NAS in the cloud, today announced it was assigned patent 9,584,363 for Redundant Storage Solution. Organizations cannot tolerate storage and application downtime, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour in lost revenue. SoftNAS incorporates patented high availability storage management, so organizations can confidently migrate applications from on-premises storage to the public cloud with the high availability that is required for 24 x 7 x 365 mission-critical workloads and business applications. SoftNAS delivers on this promise by backing it up with its unique money-back No Storage Downtime Guarantee SLA.
@SoftNAS Receives Patent for Cross-zone High Availability and Automatic Failover for Mission-critical Applications
As reported by Enterprise Management Associates December 2016 Impact Brief, “SoftNAS delivers a rich set of storage services including inline deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, snapshots, multi-level caching, clones, and others. The software-defined approach delivers consistency for services and management across all storage, regardless of the vendor or type. Customers are looking to move their large file-based repositories to the cloud. The number of potential situations where this flexibility can be leveraged for a business advantage is virtually endless, and is impossible to deliver with an on-premises infrastructure.”
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published an abstract of the patent stating: “Method and apparatus for switching between a first server and a second server, each located within a virtual private cloud and the first server being located within a first zone and the second server being located within a second zone that is physically separate from the first zone. The method and apparatus further configured to determine that the first server has experienced a failure to send or receive data. The method and apparatus further configured to enable a second port on the second server. The method and apparatus further configured to create a new route table at the second server and flush the previous route table. The method and apparatus further configured to transmit, via the second port, a request to a virtual private cloud controller to update an elastic internet protocol address with the second port information and receive data from the virtual private cloud controller.”
Eric Olson filed the patent application on November 11, 2013 (14/538,579).
“From our earliest days, SoftNAS achieved success by having an innovative, cloud first perspective on IT. Innovation is in our DNA. As we continue to migrate petabytes of hot and cold data to the cloud, cloud data protection without downtime remains a top business priority for us and our customers,” said Rick Braddy, CEO, CTO and Founder of SoftNAS. “This patent recognizes SoftNAS for its leadership, innovation and commitment to non-stop, mission-critical applications and workloads running in the cloud. While the patent is based upon our market-leading Cloud NAS product, it covers many cross-zone HA use cases within virtual private clouds, whereby private IP addresses are used to redirect network traffic to protect against failure events.”
About SoftNAS
SoftNAS®, is the leading provider of software-defined NAS solutions and protects mission-critical data for customers using any combination of public, private and hybrid clouds. SoftNAS gives its customers the enterprise-class data security, protection, and performance required to safely, predictably, and reliably operate IT systems and applications. SoftNAS believes in powerful, hassle-free data management and works with any hardware, any data type, across any geography, and with any IT environment, including the most popular public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms: Amazon® AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™, CenturyLink Cloud® and VMware vSphere®.
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Customers benefit from unified storage solution for disparate data systems without any hardware or application changes
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoftNAS®, the #1 best-selling software-defined NAS in the cloud, today announced participation in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. SoftNAS is collaborating with NetApp to provide a unique, software-based file services solution with SoftNAS Cloud NAS that runs on top of NetApp StorageGRID Webscale object storage for a unified file and object storage solution.
“SoftNAS is software-based for immediate deployment, works across cloud platforms and protocols without sacrificing full enterprise NAS functionality.”
By integrating the SoftNAS and NetApp StorageGRID Webscale object storage solutions, customers can leverage the unlimited scalability and cost advantages of object storage, making a unified storage solution easier to access. This collaboration provides increased scalability and durability for file services when used with low cost object storage–without additional storage hardware, application modification or changed workflows.
Customers need a way for object storage to fit with their existing application infrastructure and fully-integrate with all existing IT systems, applications and users. Our joint solutions create a way for storage to be accessed by the systems that require NFS, CIFS/SMB with Active Directory integration, FTP, AFP (Apple File Protocol) and iSCSI block access.
“As enterprises generate petabytes of data, business environments need instant integration between existing storage infrastructures and object storage,” said Rick Braddy, CEO and CTO of SoftNAS. “SoftNAS is software-based for immediate deployment, works across cloud platforms and protocols without sacrificing full enterprise NAS functionality.”
The combination of SoftNAS Cloud NAS for files services with NetApp StorageGRID Webscale object storage solutions empower customers to leverage the power of expansive object storage while continuing to service the requirements of active file-based applications.
Our use cases include:
- General purpose file systems for one physical unified storage system
- Cloud migration from a public to a private cloud
- Back-up
- Video/media storage
- User file home directories
- Large amounts of unstructured data
- Grid federation for replicating to and from multiple clouds
- Bulk shared file storage
NetApp Alliance Program
NetApp Alliance Program provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, certification, product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customer benefits by having access to best-of-breed partner solutions that has been tested to work with NetApp storage. Additional information on the NetApp Alliance Program is available at http://www.netapp.com/alliances.
About SoftNAS
SoftNAS, is the leading provider of software-defined NAS solutions and protects mission-critical data for customers using any combination of public, private and hybrid clouds. SoftNAS gives its customers the enterprise-class data security, protection, and performance required to safely, predictably, and reliably operate IT systems and applications. SoftNAS believes in powerful, hassle-free data management and works with any hardware, any data type, across any geography, and with any IT environment, including the most popular public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms: Amazon® AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™, CenturyLink Cloud®, VMware vSphere®.
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SoftNAS® UltraFast™ achieves up to 16x more bandwidth utilization between cloud and traditional data centers, remote/branch offices, and manufacturing and warehousing locations
WHAT: SoftNAS, the #1 best-selling software-based network-attached storage (NAS) in the cloud, today announced SoftNAS® UltraFast™, an intelligent, self-tuning storage accelerator for the WAN and cloud. SoftNAS will demonstrate how UltraFast overcomes latency, congestion, poor QoS, and slow data replication across any geographic distance without changes to applications, networking or storage systems, during AWS re:Invent.
WHY: Performance improvements for use cases such as:
- Faster offsite backups and retrieval of data via optimized S3 object storage
- High-performance S3 object storage access from on premise
- Replication between data centers over an enterprise WAN
- Replication optimization for Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
- Master copy data management for global content publishing
- Disaster recovery to the cloud for quick synchronization of data from any source
HOW: SoftNAS UltraFast will be an add-on feature to the SoftNAS product portfolio. Benefits include:
- Migrate data to the cloud: Optimize data streams for large-scale data transfers between geographically dispersed IT environments.
- Replicate data for disaster recovery: Replicate data to the cloud for cost-effective fail over.
- Integrate islands of data: Quickly transfer data among remote office, factories and corporate for big data analytics.
- Scheduled bandwidth throttling: Automatically regulate and prioritize network traffic and performance according to administrator-defined bandwidth limits and schedules.
- Leverage existing environment: Work with existing applications, storage (hardware and software) and networks to improve network efficiency without additional hardware.
- Increase bulk data transfer rate by up to 5 times: Speed transfers by up to 5 times (based on 1-4 GB file sizes across high quality networks (<0.1% packet loss)).
- Improve WAN link utilization up to 16 times over TCP alone, with 95% link efficiency: Overcome bandwidth degradation due to high round trip transfers over large geographic distances and packet losses from multiple routers (based on 1-4 GB file sizes across high quality networks (<0.1% packet loss)).
WHERE: Booth 334 during AWS re:Invent, held October 6 – 9, 2015, The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV.
About SoftNAS
SoftNAS®, is the leading provider of software-based NAS solutions and protects mission-critical data for customers using any combination of public, private and hybrid clouds. SoftNAS gives its customers the enterprise-class data security, protection, and performance required to safely, predictably, and reliably operate IT systems and applications. SoftNAS believes in powerful, hassle-free data management and works with any hardware, any data type, across any geography, and with any IT environment, including the most popular public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms: Amazon® AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™, CenturyLink Cloud®, VMware vSphere®.
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CloudFabric™ Accelerates Access to Diverse and Dispersed Data for Optimum Data Migration, Replication and Integration
HOUSTON – September 30, 2015 – SoftNAS, the #1 best-selling software-based NAS in the cloud, today announced SoftNAS® CloudFabric™ and SoftNAS® UltraFast™, along with the SoftNAS® CloudFabric™ Architecture™, a complete enterprise data management platform and toolset designed to control, manage and accelerate movement of diverse data across geographically dispersed locations. SoftNAS offers a new software-based data migration, replication, and integration (DMRI) platform to efficiently ingest, migrate, replicate, manage, transform, share and control data more simply – achieving results 5-20 times faster than legacy methods without additional programming.
As more applications and data move outside the corporate data center, enterprises lack full resources to re-engineer their applications and data flows, creating islands of data that are complex, time-consuming, and expensive to integrate exacerbating data security and protection risks. Legacy solutions have required the cobbling together of multiple point products, leading to increased costs, complexities and support risks, at a time when enterprises expect maximum agility, flexibility and responsiveness from IT.
With SoftNAS® CloudFabric Architect™, a component of CloudFabric, IT administrators use visual drag and drop operations (similar to Visio®) to configure complex data migration, replication and integrations, managed and controlled by SoftNAS® CloudFabric DataManager™, a robust data management platform.
Global enterprises that are plagued by latency, congestion, poor QoS (Quality of Service), and slow data replication across geographically dispersed branch offices, remote offices and factories can sign up for the CloudFabric Tech Preview, which will be available during Q4 2015.
“In many organizations, as much as 50% of data now resides in the cloud. At the same time, there are 10 times as many data types as there were just a few years ago. New applications have caused larger and larger datasets to be created. This perfect storm of dispersed location, additional data types, data sovereignty concerns and explosive data growth makes it imperative for organizations to understand exactly where their data resides. Data no longer exists only or even predominantly in the data center,” according to Alan Dayley and Garth Landers, Gartner. 1
Disparate Systems across Clouds and Locations
SoftNASFabric overcomes legacy proprietary and vendor-specific data formats that limit data movement and flexibility.
- Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) – SoftNASFabric provides a virtualized appliance for enterprises with data located in multiple locations and with a need for security, replication, including offshore and outsourced data access and sharing. With SoftNAS UltraFast, enterprises have a software-based WAN storage optimizing solution installed at each individual branch without the need for expensive hardware.
- Global Content Publishing – SoftNASFabric reduces latency when delivering content to improve the overall customer experience. Content can be broadcast from one centralized location and scaled to meet a global audience at any number of locations.
- Disaster Recovery to the Cloud – Using CloudFabric, diverse data, even distributed globally, can replicate to a central disaster recovery repository in the cloud or in a corporate datacenter, which is ideal for backup consolidation.
- Cloud-Integrated Storage – Enterprises can quickly synchronize data from any source, including legacy systems, and route it through CloudFabric to any destination where and when it’s needed.
- SaaS and Web Services Integration – Applications exposing web services interfaces, like SharePoint® and most SaaS services, can be integrated into other enterprise processes and new web services can be quickly created without programming.
- Big Data Integration – CloudFabric facilitates Big Data analytics by integrating disparate sources of enterprise, user and other data, enabling analytical results for enterprises by handling the necessary global bulk data transfers and ad-hoc data collections.
- IoT Integration – CloudFabric enables enterprise integration of IoT and end-user mobile devices as they continue to proliferate the enterprise environment.
“While technology advances in cloud, SaaS, web services, Big Data and IoT affords numerous advantages, enterprise IT is not equipped with the necessary tools to properly integrate and leverage the technologies together quickly enough to fully capitalize,” commented Rick Braddy, CEO and CTO, SoftNAS. “SoftNAS delivers the portable, software-defined tools that can be rapidly deployed to accelerate adoption, quickly break through the barriers and achieve the flexibility and agility business leaders are expecting from their IT and DevOps teams today.”
About SoftNAS Fabric
All SoftNAS products work with CloudFabric and UltraFast which are designed for use by IT generalists and strive to eliminate steep learning curves. SoftNASFabric incorporates SoftNAS storage products with ZFS on Linux®, which uses industry standard protocols such as NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI and more for data protection and security. CloudFabric is highly secure through SSL, SSH, HTTPS and 360-degree encryption™ at rest and in flight, extending data access via a broad range of protocols, interfaces and formats. SoftNASFabric features UltraFast, to improve data and storage acceleration over WAN and cloud networks, delivering faster migration, backup, and bulk data movement globally.
About SoftNAS
SoftNAS®, is the leading provider of software-defined, architecture independent NAS products. SoftNAS gives customers the power of data security, portability and access, providing enterprise-class NAS storage and data integration capabilities required to safely, predictably, and reliably operate IT systems and applications. SoftNAS believes in powerful, hassle-free data management and supports the most popular virtualized computing platforms, including Amazon® AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™, CenturyLink Cloud®, VMware vSphere® and vCloud® Air™.
1 Gartner, How to Move From Data Negligence to Effective Storage Management, Alan Dayley and Garth Landers, 21 August 2015.
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SoftNAS lowers costs of multi-tenant storage for service providers
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoftNAS, the #1 best-selling software-based NAS in the cloud, today announced availability of SoftNAS for Service Providers, a multi-tenant NAS for service providers. SoftNAS for Service Providers delivers full NAS functionality, security and performance while enabling the use of inexpensive iSCSI and object storage to lower overall storage costs. Through consumption-based, metered licensing service providers pay only for storage used.
“Object and block storage are quickly evolving to become the de facto storage technologies because they lower storage costs for growing data volumes. With SoftNAS, organizations get file services and lower overall storage costs, which improves service provider margins”
According to an Enterprise Strategy Group report authored by Scott Sinclair, enterprises are concerned over data growth and those concerns increase exponentially with the amount of capacity they have to manage1. Service providers partner with SoftNAS to create predictable solutions for their enterprise customers.
SoftNAS, is software-based and IT infrastructure independent, making it an ideal solution for service providers responsible for customer data. Service providers can leverage investments in block and object storage by using SoftNAS for Service Providers to provide file services for use cases including backup and archival storage, off-site replication, cross datacenter replication, business continuity and disaster recovery, office productivity, collaboration file sharing, and media hosting and distribution.
“Object and block storage are quickly evolving to become the de facto storage technologies because they lower storage costs for growing data volumes. With SoftNAS, organizations get file services and lower overall storage costs, which improves service provider margins,” commented Rick Braddy, CEO and CTO of SoftNAS. “We create opportunities for the service provider community to expand their services and support more end customers’ high-performance storage.”
SoftNAS delivers the full set of traditional NAS features, including compression and de-duplication, storage snapshots and writable clones, and thin-provisioning, enabling service providers to optimize their infrastructure for customers who share pools of common storage. By enabling these features on less expensive block or object storage, service providers get the best of both worlds.
Service providers can deploy the product as a dedicated virtual NAS appliance for specific customers or as a multi-tenant appliance shared across many customers. SoftNAS delivers Files-as-a-Service atop deep commodity storage whereby customers are charged only for actual storage capacity used. Because it is hardware independent, SoftNAS can run in any virtualized datacenter and on commodity hardware to reduce capital expenditures on proprietary storage hardware. SoftNAS is platform neutral and works with any S3-compatible object storage provider, iSCSI SAN and direct-attached SSD, SAS, SATA spinning disks.
Compared to legacy storage options, SoftNAS is quick to deploy for rapid time to value. SoftNAS leverages low-cost commodity SSD and RAM caching to deliver maximum IOPS and throughput. SoftNAS for Service Providers supports popular object storage providers such as NetApp, Hitachi, Cloudian and white box storage. Because it works in any virtualized IT environment, SoftNAS for Service Providers helps control costs and maximize the value delivered to its customers.
Pricing begins at $.06 per GB-month, with significant volume discounts for service providers.
About SoftNAS
SoftNAS, is the leading provider of software-based, architecture independent NAS products and protects data for its customers. SoftNAS gives its customers the power of data security, portability and access, providing enterprise-class NAS storage and file gateway capabilities required to safely, predictably, and reliably operate IT systems and applications. SoftNAS believes in powerful, hassle-free storage and supports the most popular virtualized computing platforms, including Amazon® AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™, CenturyLink Cloud®, VMware vSphere®.
1 Enterprise Strategy Group, Object Storage Report, Scott Sinclair, June 2015.
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SoftNAS accelerates enterprise performance on any hardware through an easily and rapidly deployed full-featured, software-based Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliance
SoftNAS, the #1 best-selling software-based network-attached storage (NAS) in the cloud, today announced its participation in the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace Provider Program. With SoftNAS’ inclusion in the program, CenturyLink Cloud customers now have secure file sharing and storage capabilities on the CenturyLink Cloud platform.
“CenturyLink Cloud customers can easily use SoftNAS applications to assure they have secure, highly available access to their data whenever and wherever they need it, worldwide,” said Rick Braddy, CEO and CTO, SoftNAS. “SoftNAS’s powerful, software-based, enterprise-class NAS simplifies data management and storage for customers using any combination of on-premise, public, private and hybrid clouds.”
The CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace Provider Program allows participating technology companies, such as SoftNAS, to integrate with the CenturyLink Cloud platform. These add-on and business-ready solutions are available to CenturyLink’s cloud, hosting and network customers.
Using SoftNAS, businesses can better manage the rapidly increasing volume of data. Customers experience faster backup and archival speeds. As part of the CenturyLink Cloud, customers that want a flexible IT infrastructure can easily integrate SoftNAS to manage petabytes of data with predictable maintenance and operating expenses.
Because software deployment takes minutes, customers have immediate access to data, protection and unlimited remote-office and back-office archival support. SoftNAS works with multiple platforms simplifying configuration whether customers require NFS exports for application-level storage, S3 object storage backup or CIFS Active Directory® integration for Windows ® operating systems. The flexibility and access SoftNAS provides makes it ideal for web platforms, database storage, data warehouses, and image archiving.
“Businesses everywhere have storage needs stemming from unrelenting data growth, and robust cloud storage solutions are increasingly important,” said David Shacochis, vice president of cloud platform at CenturyLink. “SoftNAS, which provides users a flexible way to easily store, access and move data, is a welcome addition to the many secure, business-friendly applications available to users of the CenturyLink Cloud platform within our Cloud Marketplace.”
To start using SoftNAS on CenturyLink Cloud storage today, refer to the “Getting Started” guide on the CenturyLink Cloud Knowledge Base.
The CenturyLink Cloud is a public cloud platform available in North America, Europe and Asia. CenturyLink Cloud delivers enterprise-class control, agility, scalability and security backed by an industry-leading global network.
About SoftNAS
SoftNAS, is the leading provider of software-based NAS solutions and protects mission-critical data for customers using any combination of public, private, and hybrid clouds. SoftNAS gives its customers the power of data security, portability and access, providing enterprise-class cloud NAS storage and file gateway capabilities required to safely, predictably, and reliably operate IT systems and applications. SoftNAS believes in powerful, hassle-free storage and supports the most popular public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms, including Amazon® AWS™, Microsoft® Azure™, CenturyLink Cloud®, VMware vSphere®.
For SoftNAS media inquiries, please contact:
Cristina Salinas, PetersGroup
512-586-6955 or cristina@petersgroupPR.com
