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SoftNAS Improves Cloud Storage Price/Performance Barriers and Fulfills Its Cloud Fabric Vision and MissionSoftNAS®, a cloud data platform company with a deep history of transforming on-premises, costly NAS storage hardware into dedicated, private NAS virtual software that runs on public cloud services, today announced general availability of SoftNAS Cloud® version 4 on Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure. It delivers cloud storage cost savings by leveraging highly-durable, low-cost cloud object storage. SoftNAS Cloud cuts the time and complexities of cloud data migration projects by up to 90%, turning months into weeks and simplifying live data migrations to the cloud. It enables customers to connect any kind of data to the cloud anywhere in the world. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180724005305/en/ SoftNAS Cloud 4 addresses the impediments that block real-world cloud adoption, revolving around common cloud storage uses cases: primary and secondary cloud file storage, workload and application cloud migration, hybrid cloud and synthetic cloud backups. (Graphic: Business Wire) SoftNAS Cloud 4 accelerates high-speed global data transfers up to 20 times faster with its patented SoftNAS® UltraFast™ technology, enabling Azure customers to connect remote offices, branch offices, factories and Internet of Things (IoT) at the edge with the cloud. New features of SoftNAS Cloud 4 address the impediments that block real-world cloud adoption, revolving around common cloud storage uses cases: primary and secondary cloud file storage, workload and application cloud migration, hybrid cloud and synthetic cloud backups in partnership with Veeam. SoftNAS conducted expansive customer interviews and identified 18 discrete cloud adoption barriers that SoftNAS Cloud 4 solve. "Based upon our multi-cloud research we uncovered a number of challenges customers are struggling with to take advantage of public cloud infrastructure. SoftNAS Cloud 4 addresses many of the customer data management and control challenges head on with its unique combination of cloud NAS, bulk data transfer acceleration and data integration capabilities. SoftNAS is delivering a robust cloud data fabric companies can use as a strategy to more quickly adopt the cloud and save time and money in the process," said Jeff Kato, Senior Analyst for The Taneja Group. "Today we are delivering on our company mission and the vision to become the fabric for business data in the cloud. After three years of relentless company focus, strategic input from our cloud platform partners and customers, we have produced what I believe is the gold standard in cloud data control and management software," said Rick Braddy, CEO, CTO and Founder of SoftNAS. "When I founded SoftNAS six years ago as a disgruntled traditional storage customer, my goals were to reduce the high costs of storage, make it easier to connect applications with the cloud and keep IT in control of its destiny in the cloud. SoftNAS Cloud 4 is the realization of those goals, and I invite customers and partners to start benefiting from it today," Brddy said. "We are pleased that SoftNAS Cloud has debuted even more features that help customers address critical cloud adoption pain points," said Jurgen Willis, senior director, Azure Storage at Microsoft Corp. "The addition of SoftNAS Cloud 4 and SoftNAS Cloud Platinum to the Azure Marketplace will simplify customer data management and control in the Azure cloud." New SoftNAS Cloud 4 features include:
SoftNAS Cloud 4 is available in the Azure Marketplace along with the other SoftNAS Cloud products. As a result, customers can launch all SoftNAS Cloud products on-demand, directly from the Azure Marketplace and spin up cloud data solutions in just minutes with no prior purchasing approvals. Visit www.softnas.com to learn more and try SoftNAS Cloud 4 today. About SoftNAS Control Any Data. Any Cloud. Anywhere.™ Data is the DNA that makes every business unique and is one of the most valuable assets a modern, automated business owns today. The majority of data, IT applications, business automation workloads, IoT devices and SaaS applications will either be running in the cloud or connected and spread across multiple clouds. Businesses need to control any data, on any cloud from anywhere to quickly meet their needs. They demand a powerful, flexible solution to fully leverage their data DNA within the cloud that is not only fast and cost-effective, but that doesn't require rewriting or re-engineering applications for the cloud. SoftNAS®, Inc. pioneered cloud data control and management with its SoftNAS Cloud data platform. The company began six years ago as the global leader in software-defined Cloud NAS and has matured into an enterprise software company. The SoftNAS cloud data platform provides customers a unified, integrated way to aggregate, transform, accelerate, protect and store data and to easily create hybrid cloud solutions that bridge islands of data across SaaS, legacy systems, remote offices, factories, IoT, analytics, AI and machine learning, web services, SQL, NoSQL and the cloud - any kind of data. SoftNAS works with the most popular public, private, hybrid and premises-based virtual cloud operating systems, including Amazon Web Services (News - Alert), Microsoft Azure and VMware vSphere. Resources: Learn more: https://www.softnas.com/ SoftNAS Cloud: https://www.softnas.com/wp/overview/ Twitter (News - Alert): https://twitter.com/SoftNAS LinkedIn (News - Alert): https://www.linkedin.com/company/softnas
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