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 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.
Here are key reasons why customers trust SoftNAS NAS Storage with their most important data in the Azure cloud:
SoftNAS is designed to support a variety of market verticals, use cases, and workload types. Increasingly, It enables to block and files storage services through Common Internet File System (CIFS), NFS, AFP, and iSCSI.
Highest-performing NFS and CIFS with Active Directory.
You get control over the level of NFS performance and full SMB3 compatible CIFS that supports millions of Active Directory objects and native ACLs — and into the hundreds of thousands of IOPS of DEDICATED performance. You also get RAM caching and SSD caching to maximize throughput and I/O with minimal latency.
Scalable IOPS with arrays of Premium block storage.
Customers get as many IOPS as needed by joining dozens of Premium SSD or regular SSD block disk devices into aggregated storage pools, that can be thin-provisioned into many volumes and shared via NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and AFP.
Highly durable, low-cost Azure blob object storage.
SoftNAS provides the only option to leverage Azure blobs for low-cost, highly durable, bottomless archive storage that’s accessible via NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI with no application rewrites or changes.
No downtime guarantee Service Level Agreement.
SoftNAS customers need to know we have skin in the game as a true partner who shares the same level of concern and accountability around delivering on up-time, availability, and meeting internal SLAs. Only SoftNAS provides an SLA (ask your other vendors what kind of SLA and money-back guarantee they provide — you’ll be amazed at some of the replies you get).
Full-featured Cloud NAS.
Compression, deduplication, storage snapshots, and thin-provisioning reduce storage costs by up to an additional 80%, further reducing cloud operational costs.
Built-in data migration tools.
Only SoftNAS Platinum includes built-in data migration tools to live sync your data to make complex migration projects easier and less complex and reduce the migration timeframes. Considering Azure Data Box? We’re also working closely with Microsoft to provide auto-sync in conjunction with Data Box to deal with extremely large data sets > 50 TB.
#1 Azure NAS in the cloud
When performance counts, and you need control and the flexibility to adapt, SoftNAS continues to deliver as the mature #1 Azure NAS in the cloud, as it has since 2013.
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.
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