Control Any Data. Any Cloud. Anywhere. SoftNAS Cloud Data Management Products for AWS Add Breakthrough NAS Performance, Protection, Flexibility Understanding SoftNAS Cloud SoftNAS, Inc. is the #1 software-defined Network Attached Storage (NAS) vendor in the cloud with thousands of virtual appliance deployments globally and multiple petabytes under management. Building on this patented enterprise-class NAS foundation, SoftNAS is pioneering a rapidly-emerging technology layer of cloud infrastructure that industry analysts call multi- cloud data control and management. The SoftNAS Cloud Data Platform consists of three SoftNAS Cloud products designed and optimized for specific use cases in multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud environments with support for Amazon EBS Block and S3 Object Storage. SoftNAS customers include many of the Global 2000 and SoftNAS Cloud has been a storage category leader on The AWS Marketplace since 2013 and is a highly aligned AWS Advanced Technology Partner, the highest level alliance partner certification.
Why Use SoftNAS on AWS? SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise and SoftNAS Cloud Essentials for AWS extend the native storage capabilities of AWS and feature the POSIX-compliant and required storage access protocols needed to create a virtual cloud NAS, without having to re-engineer existing customer applications. SoftNAS Cloud products allow customers to migrate existing applications and data to AWS with NFS, CIFS/SMB, iscsi or AFP support. Customers gain the performance, data protection and flexibility needed to move to the cloud cost effectively and ensure successful project outcomes (e.g., snapshots, rapid recovery, mirroring, cloning, high-availability, deduplication and compression). Each customer s journey to the cloud is unique, and SoftNAS solutions are designed to facilitate adopting cloud projects according to what makes the most immediate business sense, resulting in the highest return on invested resources (budget, people, time). Whether your need is to consolidate file servers globally, utilize the cloud for data archival or backup, migrate SaaS and other business applications, or carry out Big Data or IoT projects, SoftNAS products on AWS deliver effective, tangible results. We have been very impressed with the SoftNAS support team that is just a fingertip away and with the ability to achieve a reliable infrastructure that scales easily and stores unlimited amounts of data. - Michel Bernabela INTELLISoft N.V. 2
Which SoftNAS Cloud Product is Right for You? SoftNAS has two shipping and commercially available products for use on AWS: SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise and SoftNAS Cloud Essentials. There is also a Beta feature set available to test in the upcoming release of SoftNAS Cloud Platinum, the company s super-nas, flagship cloud data platform solution. Ask these questions to determine which SoftNAS Cloud product is right for your cloud storage needs or particular use case: SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise Are you looking for an enterprise-class cloud NAS solution to support your mission-critical, primary-data storage needs on AWS? A solution that provides the highest levels of data protection, flexibility, performance, control, and availability possible? Do you want a virtual cloud NAS that can deliver high-performance I/O and throughput to allow you to support extremely large application workloads? Do you need a cloud data solution that runs on AWS and provides the flexibility to tune to select the price and performance for each of your projects plus utilizes any combination of: S3 Object storage or EBS Magnetic, SSD or Provisioned IOPS? SoftNAS Cloud Essentials Is your less-frequently accessed data growing faster than your on-premises storage capacity is expanding? Are you looking for a cost-effective solution that will allow your organization to move large amounts of secondary data and use Amazon S3 Object storage for cloud archiving and backup? If leveraging cost-effective Object storage on S3 fits your cloud data requirements, explore SoftNAS Cloud Essentials. With Cloud Essentials, S3 Object storage I/O performance comes close to the performance levels of EBS Block storage at a fraction of the cost. 3
SoftNAS Cloud Platinum (Beta) Are you looking to Lift and Shift your application portfolio from costly legacy on-premises systems into the cloud? Is the sheer volume and complexity of your applications keeping you from being able to migrate to the cloud according to desired project timeframes? Do you need a fast, simple way to do bulk data transfers into the cloud? Are you looking for a solution that automates this process with maximum speed and efficiency? Have you struggled finding an easy and powerful way to do massive data consolidation, ingestion and integration into the cloud? Has this inability impacted planned Big Data and IoT project goals and plans? Do you see the need for a super-nas solution that simplifies your most demanding cloud data project requirements? When to use SoftNAS Cloud versus Amazon EFS? SoftNAS Cloud is a best-in-class software-defined, virtual, unified Cloud NAS/ SAN storage solution for businesses that need control of their data as well as frictionless and agile access to AWS cloud storage. SoftNAS Cloud supports AWS EBS and S3 Object storage. SoftNAS Cloud is deployed by thousands of organizations worldwide, supporting a wide array of application and workload use cases. Amazon EFS provides basic and scalable file-based NFS access for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. As a basic NFS filer, Amazon EFS SoftNAS Cloud solved a huge problem for us. We were challenged with managing both active and backup data. While this is not a simple problem, it was straightforward to solve and implement with SoftNAS Cloud. - Rudy Pataro MagHub is easy to use, allowing quick and simple creation and configuration of file systems. The multi-tenant architecture of EFS accommodates elastic growth and scales up and down for AWS customers that require basic cloud file services. 4
If you need more than a basic cloud filer on AWS, SoftNAS Cloud is the right choice: 1. For mission-critical cloud data requirements that demand low latency, high-availability with the highest-performance cloud storage I/O possible. SoftNAS ObjectBacker increases storage I/O performance up to 400% faster, giving customers performance approaching that of EBS at the price of S3 storage. 2. For environments with multiple cloud storage projects that require an enterprise-class, virtual NAS storage solution that provides flexible and granular pricing and control with performance and instance selection capabilities. 3. For customers with low cloud storage requirements (low TBs) that don t want to overprovision storage to get desired performance. 4. For requirements that demand the broadest POSIX-compliant and full NFS 4.1 feature set requiring storage access support. 5. For enterprises requiring multi-cloud environment (i.e. AWS & Other Clouds) capabilities, flexibility and data risk mitigation. 6. For organizations that need the industry s most complete NAS filer feature set, including data protection provided by the patented cross-zone high-availability architecture, at rest and in flight encryption (360-degree Encryption ) and full replication using SnapReplicate. Additional features include: High-Availability (SNAP HA * and DCHA**), Snapshots, Rapid Recovery, Deduplication, Compression, Cloning and Mirroring. * = SNAP HA is available only in SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise and SoftNAS Cloud Platinum ** = DCHA is available as an optional add-on to SoftNAS Cloud Essentials via BYOL only How and Why is SoftNAS Cloud a Better Way to Store & Control Data? Moving to SoftNAS Cloud on AWS is helping thousands of public organizations and private enterprises around the world move from the old way of controlling and efficiently utilizing data storage into a new and better 5
way. Never-ending backups, storage capacity bottlenecks, proliferation of file servers, and existing applications that are preventing organizations from moving to the cloud due to complexity and the spiraling data storage costs become a thing of the past. SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise and SoftNAS Cloud Essentials In the beginning it was on AWS enable a new way, a better way, of storing, very difficult to transition controlling and managing your data. Both solutions from a private datacenter to the cloud, but because of the are more cost-effective than expensive, inflexible, ease of use, high level of support on-premises NAS both in terms of money spent and flexibility to expand the storage we could transition to the cloud on storage and resources required to provision new datacenter facilities. Whereas it can take weeks and In turn, this has allowed us to move more of millions of dollars to acquire new hardware, a cloud NAS the core business processes to virtual appliance can be provisioned in less than an hour the cloud. The most important outcome from using SoftNAS with SoftNAS Cloud on AWS, all without tying up limited was opening an awareness to and valuable IT and DevOps resources. With traditional the migration experience. business data exploding beyond control, which is forecasted by IDC to exceed 163 Zettabytes by 2020, now is the time to evaluate and adopt the industry s most powerful, cloud-native NAS virtual storage appliance software for your growing multi-cloud data control and management needs. With SoftNAS, you have full control of any data on any cloud. Anywhere. 30-Day Free Trial of SoftNAS Cloud on AWS Put SoftNAS to the Test and Try it for 30-Days. Contact a SoftNAS representative for more details and a demo to learn more about both SoftNAS Cloud products on AWS and the Beta of SoftNAS Cloud Platinum, so that you make the right decision. - Keith Son indemand 30 days or less and 20TB or less AWS Marketplace Free Trial is available. Just launch and go in minutes. You can get started with a free 30-day trial at www.softnas.com/trynow. Learn More: SoftNAS Cloud Beta Twitter LinkedIn 6