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AZURE NAS: SoftNAS Cloud NAS Storage

 Azure NAS services can be implemented using multiple approaches depending on whether the use case focuses on cloud-only or hybrid-cloud scenarios.

SoftNAS is the most powerful and full-featured Cloud NAS on Microsoft Azure that extends native Azure block and object storage. SoftNAS cloud-based storage solution available in Azure can provide best-in-class cloud-based NAS services over NFS and SMB/ CIFS for your workloads.

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Why SoftNAS Azure NAS Storage?

Proven NAS solution for the Azure platform with over 9 years of availability.

SoftNAS offers Microsoft Azure customers an enterprise-ready NAS capable of managing your fast-growing data storage challenges. Dedicated features from SoftNAS deliver significant cost savings, high availability, lift and shift data migration, and a variety of security protection.

Expand Azure Storage Efficiency with SoftNAS

SoftNAS provides enterprise-level cloud NAS featuring data performance, security, high availability (HA), and support for the most extensive set of storage protocols in the industry: NFS, CIFS/SMB-AD, iSCSI.

Cost Management

Save 30–80% by reducing the amount of data to store

  • Enable Block Storage
  • Data Deduplication & Compression

Performance

Increase data performance without expanding storage required

  • Multiple Storage Types
  • Striping Disks
  • Private Storage

Control & Security

Supporting major protocols: iSCSI, CIFs/SMB, and NFS

  • Snapshots and Rollbacks
  • 2-Factor Authentication
  • Large-scale Windows Filer & NFS Server

SoftNAS is designed to support a variety of market verticals, use cases, and workload types. Increasingly, SoftNAS deployed on the Azure platform to enable block and file storage services through Common Internet File System (CIFS), NFS, AFP, and iSCSI.

SoftNAS is a software-defined Azure NAS delivered as a virtual appliance running within Azure Computing Service. It provides NAS capabilities suitable for the enterprise, including high availability utilizing Azure availability sets with automatic failover in the Azure cloud storage. SoftNAS runs within your Microsoft Azure account and offers business-critical data protection required for the non-stop operation of applications, websites, and IT infrastructure.

Enterprise-Grade Cloud-based Azure NAS

As a virtual NAS appliance, SoftNAS Microsoft Azure NAS filer eliminates expensive on-premise storage, unlike traditional legacy NAS appliances. Additionally, the hourly pricing model of the Azure Marketplace allows customers to scale up or scale-down storage capacity based on need, without any high up-front costs.

Deploy SoftNAS Cloud NAS on Microsoft Azure

Get started today on the Azure Marketplace taking advantage of our SoftNS Azure NAS Installation Guide and Tutorial Video Series.

Try SoftNAS directly from the Azure Marketplace… Click Here

Step-by-step instructions to set up a POC and configure it in your Azure environment… Learn More

Watch step-by-step instructional videos to deploy a SoftNAS instance on Azure… Learn More

Check Also:

AWS NAS Storage

Azure NAS Storage

SoftNAS® on RHEL

VMware NAS Storage

SoftNAS® Demo


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