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For companies who want to keep their data contained within their own control and their AWS account, an additional 3rd party data center outside of AWS is a deal-killer. The Amazon AWS data is trustworthy, and supported well by the EBS volumes plus SSD caching with SoftNAS that provides the IOPS...

I looked at SaaS products like Zadara and found that they have security problems because of separating the data from the compute workloads into a 3rd party data center on 3rd party hardware and software (the data is stored outside of AWS’ data center across a network connection, which also...

I've used SoftNAS: -easy to deploy and set up, GUI was easy to use -It has cross-zone availability and RAID to address failure of underlying hardware -on demand hourly payment on AWS account -ability to add storage to the storage pools by just adding more EBS volumes overcomes the 1 TB EBS...