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{{Infobox company
| name = Zadara Storage
| industry = Storage as a service
| founder = <!---Nelson Nahum,<br> Robi Hartman,<br> Mark Spowart,<br> Eli Shapira<br> Yair Hershko--->
| key_people = Nelson Nahum, CEO
| products = [[Cloud storage]]
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.zadara.com/}}
| foundation = March 2011
| location_city = Irvine, California
}}

'''Zadara Storage''' is a [[Computer data storage|computer data storage]] company founded in 2011, with headquarters in Irvine, California.<ref name=startupbeat>{{cite web|url=http://startupbeat.com/zadara-storage-is-bringing-the-flexibility-and-security-of-closed-systems-to-the-public-cloud/ |title=Zadara Storage is bringing the flexibility and security of closed systems to the public cloud |publisher=startupbeat.com |date=2012-08-03 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref>  The company develops computer software that it markets as storage-as-a-service, which can be used for [[Cloud computing|cloud]] or on-premises servers, a model sometimes called [[Cloud computing#Private cloud|private cloud]].<ref name=zdnet>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/zadara-rolls-out-on-premise-pay-per-use-private-cloud-storage/ |title=Zadara rolls out on-premise pay-per-use private cloud storage |publisher=zdnet.com |date=2014-08-08 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref> The company also has a development office in [[Place:Israel|Israel]].<ref name=theregister2>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/toshiba_drops_3_mill_on_zadara/ |title=Why you wanna go and put STaaS in their eyes? Toshiba pays $3m for Zadara |publisher=theregister.co.uk |date=2013-08-02 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref>

==History==
Zadara Storage was founded in 2011 with $3 million in start-up funding.<ref name=sramanamitra2>{{cite web|url=http://www.sramanamitra.com/2016/03/08/leveraging-amazon-to-build-a-cloud-storage-business-nelson-nahum-ceo-of-zadara-storage-part-2/ |title=Leveraging Amazon To Build a Cloud Storage Business: Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage (Part 2) |publisher=sramanamitra.com |date=2016-03-08 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref> In 2012, the company introduced cloud-based storage to Amazon.com's public cloud customers.  The storage was designed to be used as [[Persistence (computer science)|persistent storage]] in conjunction with [[Software:Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud]] (EC2).<ref name=startupbeat/> The company started by selling [[Block (data storage)|block data storage]] for storage area networks (SAN), and later added network attached storage (NAS) for cloud customers.<ref name=startupbeat/>

In July 2012 the company completed a $7 million first funding round.<ref name=venturebeat>{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2012/07/16/zadara-storage-funding/ |title=Zadara Storage raises $7M to speed up Amazon’s & Rackspace’s clouds (exclusive) |publisher=venturebeat.com |date=2012-07-16 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref> In August 2013, Toshiba's America Electronic Components (TAEC) division invested $3 million in the company. Reports indicated that as part of the investment, Toshiba's disk drives would be used in Zadara's storage products.<ref name=theregister2/> In 2014, Zadara Storage was named a Cool Vendor by informational technology advisory firm [[Company:Gartner|Gartner]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gartner.com/doc/2709917/cool-vendors-storage-technologies- |title=Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2014 |publisher=venturebeat.com |date=2012-07-19 |accessdate=2016-08-19}}</ref>

In 2019, Asigra, a cloud-based data recovery software based in Toronto, Canada, partnered with Zadara "to release a purpose-built backup appliance with a subscription-based pricing model" that "aimed at service providers who would rather rent than buy."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asigra appliance uses Zadara technology|url=https://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/news/252467770/Asigra-appliance-uses-Zadara-technology|website=SearchDataBackup|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref>

==Products and services==
Zadara Storage sells enterprise-class data storage services on a pay-as-you-go basis to companies worldwide through its Zadara Enterprise Data Cloud, for which it holds a patent.<ref name=tomsitpro>{{cite web|url=http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/zadara-cloud-object-storage-ssd,1-3240.html |title=Zadara Adds Object Storage, Larger SSDs And FC Support |publisher=venturebeat.com |date=2016-04-13 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%252Fnetahtml%252FPTO%252Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%252Fzadara&d=PTXT |title=USPTO Database - Virtual private storage array service for cloud servers |publisher=uspto.gov |date= |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref> The operating software combines the company's proprietary software with third-party software including [[Software:OpenStack|OpenStack]], and allows the storage to be distributed to different users or tenants in a multi-tenant environment.<ref name=theregister1>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/07/whats_zadara_all_about/ |title=Who is Zadara and what does it mean by a Virtual Private Storage Array? |publisher=theregister.co.uk |date=2014-08-07 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref> The platform allows users to create private clouds consisting of multiple [[High-availability cluster|high-availability cluster]] virtual storage arrays.<ref name=theregister1/> In addition to its [[Block (data storage)|block]] and file storage services, the company also sells [[Amazon S3]]/[[Software:OpenStack#Object Storage .28Swift.29|OpenStack Swift]]-compliant object storage services.<ref name=tomsitpro/>

The Zadara Storage Backup to Amazon S3 (B2S3) product allows automatic backups from Zadara Storage Cloud to Amazon S3-compatible storage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300078904/6-storage-solutions-for-cloud-based-archiving.htm/pgno/0/6 |title=6 Storage Solutions For Cloud-Based Archiving |publisher=crn.com |date=2015-11-20 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref>  Zadara Container Services is technology that embeds [[Software:Docker|Docker]] [[Operating-system-level virtualization|containers]] into Zadara's storage arrays.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300077276/zadara-storage-as-a-service-runs-docker-containers-directly-inside-storage.htm |title=Zadara Storage-as-a-Service Runs Docker Containers Directly Inside Storage |publisher=crn.com |date=2015-06-25 |accessdate=2016-08-12}}</ref>

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