Zetta, a provider of enterprise cloud storage services, has quadrupled its storage footprint in the past six months, adding customers in various vertical industries from education to technology and business services.

Officials with Zetta (News - Alert) said that Didit, UCLA, The Aura Group, WhippleHill Communications, New York School of Interior Design, Northwestern Health Sciences University, Saga Communications, MSProjectExperts and Pictela are some of the latest customers using the Zetta cloud storage service for their data protection needs.

“Since the launch of Zetta Data Protect in August 2010, we have quadrupled our customer footprint,” said Ali Jenab, CEO of Zetta, in a statement. “It is our customers’ need for enterprise-level data protection services that is driving cloud adoption today. We offer them immediate offsite data protection, 30 minutes to live operation, and direct access to file-based data in the cloud for instant recovery through parallel, encrypted data transfers.”

Jenab said that with no appliance to install or manage, Zetta Data Protect can be operational in minutes.

“Didit provides a real-time web advertising bid management system and our data is key to our success,” said Evan Hoffman (News - Alert), director of technology operations at Didit, a search marketing agency, in a statement. “We looked at building our own backup system based on Amazon S3, but Zetta provided better value with a secure, turnkey solution that required very little configuration on our end and a great UI.”

Customers all over seem to be seeing the benefit in turning to cloud storage, as was captured in a recent Cirtas’Taneja Group white paper.  Cirtas, a 2010 Red Herring Top 100 North America Company, argues in its white paper that the cloud storage industry is booming and key solutions providers, including Cirtas, are reaping the benefits of growing opportunities in this space.

According to Douglas Shaw, CTO at The Aura Group, an interactive advertising agency, Zetta offers benefits through the cloud as customers only pay for the storage they are using and the storage is unlimited.

 “With dedicated storage, I had to plan ahead and make sure I had overhead available, so I didn’t run out of storage,” he said.

Back in November, Enterprise cloud storage provider Zetta had announced that it has raised $11.5 million in its second round of funding, bringing the total funding to $22.5 million. Both existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners participated.