Zadara

Zadara is a cloud computing company founded in 2011, with headquarters in Irvine, California.[2] The company develops computer software that it markets as storage-as-a-service, which can be used for cloud or on-premises servers, a model sometimes called private cloud.[3]

Zadara
IndustryCloud computing
FoundedMarch 2011
Headquarters
Irvine, California
Key people
  • Yoram Novick (CEO)
  • Nelson Nahum(CTO & Chairman of the Board)
[1]
ProductsComputer storage
Websitewww.zadara.com

History

Zadara Storage was founded in 2011 with $3 million in start-up funding.[4] In 2012, the company introduced cloud-based storage to Amazon.com's public cloud customers. The storage was designed to be used as persistent storage in conjunction with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).[2] The company started by selling block data storage for storage area networks (SAN), and later added network attached storage (NAS) for cloud customers.[2]

In July 2012 the company completed a $7 million first funding round.[5] In August 2013, Toshiba's America Electronic Components (TAEC) division invested $3 million in the company. Reports indicated that as part of the investment, Toshiba's disk drives would be used in Zadara's storage products.[6] In 2014, Zadara was named a Cool Vendor by informational technology advisory firm Gartner.[7]

In September 2018, the company closed a $25 million series C funding round, led by Israel Growth Partners.[8]

In 2019, Asigra, a cloud-based data recovery software based in Toronto, Canada, partnered with Zadara "to release a purpose-built backup appliance with a subscription-based pricing model" that "aimed at service providers who would rather rent than buy."[9]

In February 2021, Zadara acquired developer NeoKarm, the developer of an Amazon Web Services-compatible cloud system.[10] Also in February, the company became the official sponsor of Alfa Romeo in Formula One.[11]

Products and services

Zadara Storage sells enterprise-class cloud compute & data storage services on a pay-as-you-go basis to companies worldwide through its Zadara Enterprise Data Cloud, for which it holds a patent.[12][13] The operating software combines the company's proprietary software with third-party software including OpenStack, and allows the storage to be distributed to different users or tenants in a multi-tenant environment.[14] The platform allows users to create private clouds consisting of multiple high-availability cluster virtual storage arrays.[14] In addition to its block and file storage services, the company also sells Amazon S3/OpenStack Swift-compliant object storage services.[12]

The Zadara Storage Backup to Amazon S3 (B2S3) product allows automatic backups from Zadara Storage Cloud to Amazon S3-compatible storage.[15] Zadara Container Services is technology that embeds Docker containers into Zadara's storage arrays.[16]

References
  1. "Zadara taps new CEO as founder moves to CTO role". 21 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  2. "Zadara is bringing the flexibility and security of closed systems to the public cloud". startupbeat.com. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  3. "Zadara rolls out on-premise pay-per-use private cloud storage". zdnet.com. 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  4. "Leveraging Amazon To Build a Cloud Storage Business: Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara (Part 2)". sramanamitra.com. 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  5. "Zadara raises $7M to speed up Amazon's & Rackspace's clouds (exclusive)". venturebeat.com. 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  6. "Why you wanna go and put STaaS in their eyes? Toshiba pays $3m for Zadara". theregister.co.uk. 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  7. "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014". venturebeat.com. 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  8. "Zadara Wows Microsoft Vet to Tune of $25 Million". Orange Cuunty Business Journal. September 10, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  9. "Asigra appliance uses Zadara technology". SearchDataBackup. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  10. "Storage-as-a-Service Specialist Zadara Acquires Compute Developer NeoKarm". CRN. February 21, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  11. "Zadara, Alfa Romeo F1 Deal for Cloud". Orange County Business Journal. February 22, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  12. "Zadara Adds Object Storage, Larger SSDs And FC Support". venturebeat.com. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  13. "USPTO Database - Virtual private storage array service for cloud servers". uspto.gov. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  14. "Who is Zadara and what does it mean by a Virtual Private Storage Array?". theregister.co.uk. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  15. "6 Storage Solutions For Cloud-Based Archiving". crn.com. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  16. "Zadara Storage-as-a-Service Runs Docker Containers Directly Inside Storage". crn.com. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
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