Toshiba Cloud Storage Array Service Offering Debuts In Japan, Based on the Zadara Storage as a Service (STaaS) Platform
February 2014 by Marc Jacob
Zadara™ Storage, Inc., provider of enterprise-class cloud storage as a service (STaaS), announced that Toshiba is launching the Toshiba Cloud Storage Array Service™ offering in Japan, based on Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array™ (VPSA™) platform for providing service providers with elastic block and file repository storage that is billed on a flexible, pay as you go basis. The deployment represents yet another expansion of Zadara’s award-winning offering – a solution that has been proven for two years in worldwide deployments. The Toshiba Cloud Storage Array Service will be available March 1.
As service providers seek to attract more enterprise applications to move to the cloud, the Toshiba Cloud Storage Array Service offering represents a significant endorsement of Zadara’s unique approach to providing high Quality of Service (QoS), elastic and enterprise-grade cloud storage for live repository, archive, and disaster recovery storage needs without a hardware purchase.
Zadara’s VPSA architecture allows cloud-delivered QoS to remain exceptional, even for massive data volumes. Zadara’s technology approach uniquely provides dedicated disks, virtual controllers, and separate networking to achieve single-tenant, predictable performance at a multitenant price. Cloud providers using the Toshiba Cloud Storage Array Service can offer each of their customers a private management interface from which to add or eliminate drives, switch from disk to SSDs and back, adjust controller performance, and fine tune other storage needs on the fly – allowing flexibility and control.