At Buurst , We have customers continually asking for solutions that will allow them to migrate from their existing on-premises storage systems to the Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. We hear this often from EMC VNX and Isilon customers, and increasingly from NetApp customers as well. The ask is usually prompted by receipt of the latest storage array maintenance bill or a more strategic decision to take action to close existing datacenters and replace them with the public cloud. In other cases, customers have many remote sites, offices, or factories where there’s simply not enough space to maintain all the data at the edge in smaller appliances. The convenience and appeal of the public cloud have become the obvious answer to these problems. Customers want to trade out hardware ownership for the cloud subscription model and get out of the hardware management business. Assessing the Environment One of Isilon’s primary advantages that originally drove broad adoption is its scale...

On Premise vs AWS Cloud NAS Storage — Which is Best for Your Business? Should you keep your On-Premises NAS: Upgrade, Pay Maintenance, or Public Cloud? download the full slide deck on Slideshare . The maintenance bill is due for your on-premises SAN/NAS–or it just increased. It’s hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars just to keep your existing storage gear under maintenance. And you know you will need to purchase more storage capacity for this aged hardware. Do you renew and commit another 3–5 years by paying the storage bill and further commit to a data center architecture? Do you make a forklift upgrade and buy new SAN/NAS gear or move to hyper-converged infrastructure? Do you move to the AWS cloud for greater flexibility and agility? Will you give up security and data protection? Difference between on-premise vs Hyper-converged vs AWS We’re going to be talking about on-premises to cloud conversation. We’re going to show you the difference between on-premise vs hyper-conv...

  Benefits of SoftNAS Azure NAS Storage Like many of you, we see tremendous growth and demand by customers for enterprise NFS and CIFS/SMB with Active Directory integration for  Azure . Companies are now betting the farm on Azure with major business-critical, extremely demanding applications, and workloads.  We’re talking about mission-critical healthcare, e-discovery, government, revenue-generating SaaS, line of business applications, and more. These workloads run 24 x 7 x 365 at the hundreds of terabytes to petabytes scale with up to millions of users — serious applications that are core to these customers’ businesses. Customers have chosen SoftNAS since 2013 because it’s the most mature, proven, cloud-native NAS available. SoftNAS  is a software-defined  Cloud NAS  delivered as a  virtual NAS appliance  running within Azure Computing Service. It provides NAS capabilities suitable for the enterprise, including high availability utilizing Azure a...