Zadara Storage Named Winner of 2013 TiE50 “Top Startup” at TiEcon 2013

Zadara™ Storage, Inc. has announced today that it has been named Winner of 2013 TiE50 “Top Startup” Award at TiEcon 2013, the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs. Zadara Storage was amongst 50 winners honored on Saturday, May 18 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

"We are honored and thrilled to be recognized for our technology innovation and customer traction. Reinventing storage for the cloud, by virtue of software defined storage, has accelerated Enterprise deployment of mission critical apps in the cloud. There's a great storage revolution happening, and we take great pride in being a part of it with our cloud NAS and cloud block storage solutions. We thank the judges, TiE and the TiEcon organizers for the accolade and for believing in us," said Noam Shendar, VP, Business Development, who received the award on behalf of the company.

Speaking to a global audience at the awards ceremony during TiEcon 2013, the conference Chairman and President of TiE Silicon Valley, Mr. Venkatesh Shukla said that “the TiE50 program screened 1142 companies from 24 countries and 50 best-of-breed companies were announced winners.”

“Over the past four years, the TiE50 program gained global acclaim attracting startups from all over the world. TiE50 as a brand has gained much recognition amongst the VC and Angel communities – particularly in the Silicon Valley. About 110 finalists and winners had successful exits” said Program Chair Ram K. Reddy.

About Zadara™ Storage

An Amazon Web Services Technology Partner and winner of TiE50, Venturebeat, Under the Radar, and Plug and Play's cloud competitions, Zadara Storage offers Enterprise-class, cloud-block storage on-demand. With Zadara Storage, cloud storage leapfrogs ahead to provide cloud servers with high-performance, fully configurable, highly available, fully private, tiered storage. The Zadara Storage service accelerates Enterprise migration to the cloud by minimizing the differences between the cloud and the IT data center.
Discover the benefits of cloud without the compromise: zadarastorage.com.

About TiE50

TiE50 is TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of technology startups worldwide. Awards are announced at TiEcon, the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs. TiE is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. TiE provides a platform for mentoring, networking and education for technology entrepreneurs worldwide. Our global network of 54 chapters located in most major North American, Asian and European countries and cities with more than 14,000 members across 13 countries.

About TiEcon

TiEcon is the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with loyal participation from top technology companies, leading venture capital firms, and global service providers. TiEcon 2013 attracted 3,700+ attendees from across the world -- including CEOs of established companies to first-time entrepreneurs creating new companies, to leading investment professionals and corporate executives. TiEcon was listed by Worth Magazine in their September 2011 issue to be among the 10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship along with TED and the World Economic Forum. For more information on TiEcon, visit www.tiecon.org/.

New video interviews - AWS premium storage, Red Hat and OpenStack integration for Cloud Block Storage

We're happy to share several new video interviews about Zadara's Cloud Block Storage and NAS in the Cloud, integration of OpenStack Cinder, our partnerships with AWS and Red Hat, and how our customers are migrating to the cloud for Primary Storage.

Thank you to Stephen Spector and Rafael Knuth of Dell, Dave Vellante of Wikibon, Jeff Frick of SiliconANGLE, and our partners at AWS and OpenStack.

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Zadara's Premium Enterprise-Class Storage at AWS
Our VP Noam Shendar discusses our premium alternative to Amazon’s native storage services at AWS, allowing end-users Shared File and Block Storage, higher IOPS, Cloud Quality of Service , clustering, encryption and dedicated drives via Direct Connect. 





Zadara Storage, OpenStack and Red Hat - Allowing Service Providers to offer Enterprise-class Cloud Block and File Storage

Zadara Storage was the first storage company to join OpenStack, and our software solution is based on OpenStack. Zadara's software based solution runs on standard servers, and can scale to very large capacities. Providers who plan to launch OpenStack based clouds can now offer their customers storage elements that support HA, QoS and Predictable Performance along with elasticity and flexibility of the cloud environment. Built for service providers, Zadara's software suite provides metering, billing, inventory management built into the product to allow immediate deployment.

At the OpenStack Summit, Zadara Storage also announced its new Red Hat partnership, supporting Red Hat OpenStack Distribution.




Zadara Storage Demo at OpenStack Summit

Learn the basics of our company and our unique offering with VP of Engineering, Yair Hershko, presenting in the demo theater at the 2013 OpenStack Summit.

Huawei Zadara Joint Enterprise and SP Solutions

Huawei Zadara Joint Enterprise and SP Solutions

Showcasing at INTEROP 2013

Zadara™ Storage joins as a Huawei partner to bring to market powerful and predictable Enterprise Cloud Storage, designed for Service Providers (SPs) and Private Cloud deployments.

Huawei is the first information communications technology (ICT) solutions provider to partner with Zadara Storage and to offer its hardware servers packaged with the Zadara Storage Cloud software, an innovative software suite that transforms industry standard servers into powerful Enterprise-class storage. The Zadara Storage Cloud allows users to create NAS and SAN Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSA™) with a single-tenant quality of service (QoS) experience, thanks to dedicated drives, CPUs, memory and I/O. 

This powerful Huawei-Zadara hardware-software partnership enables its users to offer instantly-deployed, customized NAS and SAN as a service and brings forward an entire new approach to cloud storage deployment, with the ease of an appliance (no need for software installation). Huawei is a leading global brand providing quality ICT products with exceptional services, leading in Enterprise solutions and a growing US market.

The cloud and the virtualization of the datacenter, including software defined storage, are at the forefront of Enterprise IT. This new partnership offers SPs and Enterprises the best of traditional block and file storage combined with the scale and multi-tenancy of cloud storage.

Although the cloud is a shared environment, VPSAs provide dedicated resources isolated from (and not shared with) other cloud users, resulting in both data privacy and Predictable Performance™. Virtual Controllers (VCs) manage and present storage, ensuring high availability, security and performance.

Zadara Storage VPSAs  are:

●      Truly Multi-Tenant

●      Fully Configurable

●      Metered and Billable

●      Secure and Reliable

●      Fast and Highly Available

Zadara will be joining Huawei at INTEROP May 7-10, 2013 in Las Vegas. We will be showcasing as a partner at the Huawei booth #1439 (see map below). Huwaei will be presenting various ICT solutions including Cloud Data Center solutions, under the title “connecting business opportunities in a better way”.

We are excited to showcase this new partnership and show Enterprise clients and Service Providers unprecedented scale, reliability, flexibility and data protection our solutions bring.

For more information please download our 2-page infosheets:

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Huawei Zadara™ Block and File Storage for Service Providers

PRIVATE CLOUD 

Huawei Zadara™ Enterprise Elastic Block and File Storage

CEOCFO Magazine Interviews Zadara Storage CEO Nelson Nahum

Bringing the economics of pay-as-you-go, Zadara Storage, Inc. is taking the Cloud to the next level through an architecture based on software and standard servers where customers can buy Enterprise Storage for the day or just three hours.


Lynn Fosse, Senior Editor, CEOCFO Magazine, interviews our CEO, Nelson Nahum. 

Read the full article on the CEOCFO Magazine website: http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/ZadaraStorage13.htm

Or download the PDF here: 
http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/ZadaraStorage13-CEOCFO-Article.pdf

Zadara Storage Official 10gen Partner

Zadara™ Storage is happy to announce that we have recently become an official 10gen Partner. We are delighted to offer our service to MongoDB customers who are seeking better performance, performance consistency, data management (snapshots, replication) and availability at AWS and Dimension Data.

Last year we announced that our Cloud Block Storage is MongoDB Cloud IaaS Ready, allowing users to take advantage of the power and economics of the cloud while gaining unprecedented reliability, control, and security for off-premise MongoDB instances.  

Our solution provides MongoDB users the ability to achieve higher levels of performance, reliability and security than previously available in a public cloud environment, including unlimited, zero-impact snapshots--instantly and easily creating recovery points without performance degradation; consistency groups for easy snapshots across volumes--creating synchronized snapshots of multiple volumes with a single command; and increased performance and speed by individually optimizing the performance of each volume (e.g., setting up a sequential-write optimized volume for crash recovery logs).

We are delighted to be an official 10gen partner, and to continue to develop solutions to make the cloud Enterprise ready.

To learn how to run MongoDB at AWS with our VPSA cloud block storage, please visit our support forum for step by step instructions.

Zadara Storage Selected TiE50 2013 Finalist

Zadara Storage is proud to announce that TiE Silicon Valley, the organizer of TiEcon 2013, the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs, announced Zadara Storage among TiE50 Finalists! 

More than 1,100 companies from 22 countries were screened resulting in 104 world class finalists. The TiE 50 selection process was designed with meticulous planning, screening and judging by a team of prominent entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives and other domain experts. Winner awards will be presented on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at TiEcon 2013.

To support Zadara Storage, please like us on our company page on the TiE50 awards site.

About TiE50 Awards
TiE50 is TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program contested by technology startups worldwide. TiE50 track record since inception in May 2009 shows that 94% of the winners and finalists have been funded, attracting over $20 Billion in investments! More than 110 companies have been acquired, merged or went public. Participating technology startups benefit from a vast ecosystem of venture capitalists, angels, and entrepreneurs. Other participant privileges include significant investor exposure, online virtual showcasing and technology and business partnering/networking. 

About TiE:
TiE is a global not-for-profit organization fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, education, and networking. We consider entrepreneurship to be the single most powerful instrument to advance global prosperity. Our greatest strength is our network of over 60 chapters in 17 countries with a worldwide membership exceeding 14,000 that includes successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs. 

Zadara Storage at AWS Summit SF -- Disaster Recovery Between US East and West Regions

Zadara Storage is excited to attend the AWS Summit San Francisco next week on April 30, 2013.

Our on-demand VPSA block and file storage solution features virtual SAN and NAS with dedicated drives, dual controllers, RAID level selection, volume-wise IO throttling, volume sharing and clustering, full performance metering, and hourly usage billing. 

At the AWS Summit we will demonstrate our latest addition to the Enterprise-class features of our VPSA - remote asynchronous replication between storage volumes in AWS US East and AWS US West regions, respectively. 

These new capabilities make it possible to perform seamless failover of applications between AWS regions, e.g., during a disaster. This takes Virtual Private Storage Arrays to new Enterprise-class heights. With the new asynchronous remote mirroring capability, AWS customers will have the ability to quickly switch applications between regions. This capability is helpful not only for disaster recovery, but also in response to shifts in regional demand, planned downtime, and network outages or slowdowns.

We are delighted to showcase this at the summit - come visit us at booth no. 315, near the AWS lounge.

An official press release will be published on Monday April 29, 2013.