What is Zadara Cloud Platform?

The Zadara Cloud Platform is positioned as an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that claims to offer secure, elastic, and robust self-service compute, networking, and storage capabilities. According to the vendor, this platform caters to global Service Providers and F100 Enterprises, aiming to provide a scalable and flexible infrastructure that allows businesses to focus on growth rather than infrastructure management. The Zadara Cloud Platform is said to be utilized by IT professionals, cloud architects, service providers, and enterprises across various industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Zadara Cloud to test FalconStor virtual tape library product in it (called FalconStor StorSafe). I was able to deploy it on Zadara cloud and run backups/restores, using both block storage as well as their object storage.

Pros

Host VMs using windows and linux
Provide object storage
Provide block storage

Cons

VMs misses some functionality like being able to swap the boot disk.
To allocate storage to the VM, you need to configure iscsi connections from both ends.
Marketplace still missing major products.

Most Important Features

VM capability
Object storage capability
A cloud provider option for European market

Return on Investment

No real impact, as I only used it for some proof of concept.
New cloud provider still missing some features and functionality.
An alternative cloud provider hopefully cheaper than its competitors.

Alternatives Considered

IBM AIX, IBM Spectrum Protect, HP-UX, Oracle Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Virtual Machines, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, IBM Power System Virtual Server and IBM Power servers

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What is Zadara Cloud Platform?

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