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Buurst’s SoftNAS Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

by Buurst Staff | DataOps, DevOps, Latest News, News Releases, Oracle Cloud, Press Coverage

SoftNAS, a network attached storage solution, is now integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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HOUSTON, TEXAS – October 8, 2024 – Buurst, a leading provider of virtual network attached storage (NAS) functionality, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its storage solution, SoftNAS, is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Oracle partners.

SoftNAS enables high-performance data storage for Oracle File Storage, offering scalable file storage for Oracle applications that require shared file access. Integrated with OCI, SoftNAS offers customers these additional benefits for their enterprise data storage needs:

Accelerated Workloads: SoftNAS is designed to deliver exceptional performance, making it ideal for demanding workloads such as databases, file sharing, and media processing.
Scalable Architecture: SoftNAS can scale to meet the growing storage needs of businesses, helping ensure optimal performance even as data volumes increase.
Simplified Deployment: SoftNAS integrates with OCI compute and storage services, particularly through VMware, making deployment and management straightforward.
Optimized Resource Utilization: By leveraging OCI, SoftNAS can efficiently utilize cloud resources, leading to cost savings.
Reduced Operational Costs: By simplifying storage management and reducing the need for on-premises hardware, SoftNAS can help lower overall IT costs.
Global Availability: SoftNAS provides easy access to new geography regions leveraging Oracle region global footprint.

Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and services offering unique solutions, including ones that extend Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

OCI Cloud is a deep and broad platform of cloud infrastructure services that enables customers to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance environment. From application development and business analytics to data management, integration, security, AI, and infrastructure services including Kubernetes and VMware, OCI delivers comprehensive security, performance, and cost savings. In addition, with multicloud, hybrid cloud, public cloud, and dedicated cloud options, OCI’s distributed cloud offers customers the benefits of cloud with greater control over data residency, locality, and authority, even across multiple clouds. As a result, customers can bring enterprise workloads to the cloud quickly and efficiently while addressing the strictest regulatory compliance requirements.

“SoftNAS will enhance the enterprise cloud storage value proposition for customers when integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,” said Vic Mahadevan, CEO, Buurst, Inc. “Buurst’s participation in Oracle PartnerNetwork further extends our commitment to the Oracle community and enables customers to reap the benefits of SoftNAS. We look forward to leveraging the power of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to help us achieve our business goals.”

“The enterprise cloud represents a huge opportunity for our partner community,” said David Hicks, group vice president, Worldwide ISV Cloud Business Development, Oracle. “Buurst’s commitment to innovation with the Oracle Cloud and quality execution helps our mutual customers receive cloud-enabled Enterprise NAS solutions ready to meet critical business needs.”

For Oracle partners like Buurst, earning the Powered by Oracle Cloud Expertise is an achievement that offers customers confidence that the partner’s application is supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SLA, enabling full access and control over their cloud infrastructure services as well as consistent performance.

About Buurst and SoftNAS
Buurst is a leading provider of software-defined storage solutions. Its SoftNAS virtual Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance product, delivers high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective storage for businesses of all sizes. Buurst is committed to providing customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve their Enterprise Storage goals.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle Partner Network (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program designed to enable partners to accelerate the transition to cloud and drive superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows partners to engage with Oracle through track(s) aligned to how they go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services; Oracle Industry Healthcare for partners that provide commercially available products and/or services built with Oracle Cloud and Oracle Health technologies; and License & Hardware for partners that build, service or sell Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service. To learn more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork

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Buurst contact information:
Andy Bowden
346-410-0643
pr@buurst.com

SoftNAS™ Expands to Oracle Cloud, Achieves VMware Partner Ready Certification, Releases SoftNAS 5.5

by Buurst Staff | Latest News, News Releases, Press Coverage

Buurst continues to broaden its reach of its Enterprise-grade, High-Performance SoftNAS virtual Storage product

HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, February 14, 2024 — Buurst today announced the expansion of its flagship product, SoftNAS, to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) VMware solution. This move broadens its reach and delivers its high-performance, scalable storage solution to a wider range of businesses. Additionally, SoftNAS has re-validated its VMWare Partner Ready status as a member of the Technology Alliance Program (TAP), further solidifying its commitment to delivering seamless integration with leading virtualization platforms and has release SoftNAS version 5.5.

“We are excited to bring SoftNAS to the Oracle Cloud and re-validating our VMWare Partner Ready status,” per Arlene Ogden, Head of Engineering at Buurst.

Key Benefits of SoftNAS on Oracle Cloud:

• High-performance storage: SoftNAS delivers outstanding performance and scalability, making it ideal for demanding workloads
• Seamless integration: SoftNAS integrates seamlessly with OCI services, via VMware, simplifying deployment and management
• Cost-effectiveness: SoftNAS offers a flexible pricing model that helps businesses optimize their cloud spending
• Enhanced security: SoftNAS leverages Oracle’s robust security features to protect valuable data

VMWare Partner Ready validation:

SoftNAS has re-validated its VMware Partner Ready status, signifying its compatibility and interoperability with VMware vSphere®. This certification ensures seamless integration with existing VMware environments, allowing users to leverage SoftNAS’s advanced features without complexity.

“We continually make advancements to demonstrate our commitment to providing customers with the flexibility and performance they need to thrive in today’s dynamic Enterprise NAS landscape,” Vic Mahadevan, CEO of Buurst states. “Our Engineering and Product teams continue to make great improvements on our flagship product.”

About SoftNAS, powered by Buurst:

Buurst has released SoftNAS version 5.5, providing enhancements beyond the OCI and VMware announcements, such as enabling Offline Activation, Storage Pool Expansion Flow, and various infrastructure upgrades of ZFS, DeltaSync, and other updates that continue to strengthen the performance of SoftNAS.

Who is Buurst?

Buurst is a leading provider of software-defined storage solutions. Its SoftNAS virtual Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance product, delivers high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective storage for businesses of all sizes. Buurst is committed to providing customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve their Enterprise Storage goals.

Andy Bowden
Buurst, Inc
+1 346-410-0643
pr@buurst.com

Buurst Joins IGEL Ready Program as a Technology Partner

by Buurst Staff | News Releases

Buurst joins a growing number of forward-thinking businesses that are integrating and validating their products through the new IGEL Ready program.

BELLEVUE, WA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA –– Buurst, a data performance company, and IGEL, the edge OS leader for cloud workspaces, today announced that Buurst has joined the new IGEL Ready program as a technology partner. IGEL Ready opens up the company’s core enterprise software for tech companies like Buurst to integrate and validate its products, driving business growth and flexible access to enterprise applications for mutual customers of Buurst and IGEL.

“The unexpected shift to remote work has not been frictionless for any business. At Buurst, we’ve been focused on helping our customers adapt to a new era and migrate and store their businesses in the cloud. With IGEL Ready, we can reach new customers, combine our offerings with IGEL’s simple operating system, and help even more businesses seamlessly make the transition the cloud,” said Garry Olah, CEO, Buurst.

“The future of enterprise computing is in the cloud. The IGEL Ready program makes it easy for any company to deploy its applications to virtual desktops and cloud workspaces, reaching a new and relevant market and enabling world-class customer service,” said Jed Ayres, CEO, IGEL. “We’re excited that Buurst is joining our growing network of more than 90 IGEL Ready partners and being part of a new movement in the end user computing industry.”

Now more than ever, providing customers and their employees with reliable, frictionless access to tools, applications, and services is critical for businesses continuity and growth. The IGEL Ready program ensures that partner applications are validated and shared, and that their customers have access to updated and secure software. This new ecosystem enables customers to consider compatible devices and partner applications across a range of categories in the customer-facing IGEL Ready Showcase.

To learn more and start the application process, visit igel.com/partners/technology-partners/.

To explore the IGEL Ready ecosystem of solutions, visit igel.com/ready.

About Buurst

At Buurst, we’re thinking about your data differently, so you can continue to grow and move your business forward. You need to move fast, and so does your data. Our nimble, cost-effective data migration and performance management solution opens new opportunities and capabilities that continually prepare you for success. Get all the tools you need, so day one happens faster, and you can be amazing on day two, month two, and even year two. We make your cloud decisions work for you – and that means providing you data control, data performance, cost-management with storage tiering, and security. www.buurst.com

About IGEL

IGEL provides the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s world-leading software products include IGEL OS™, IGEL UD Pocket™ (UDP) and IGEL Universal Management Suite™ (UMS). These solutions comprise a more secure, manageable and cost-effective endpoint management and control platform across nearly any x86-64 device. Easily acquired via just two feature-rich software offerings, — Workspace Edition and Enterprise Management Pack — IGEL software presents outstanding value per investment. Additionally, IGEL’s German engineered endpoint solutions deliver the industry’s best hardware warranty (5 years), software maintenance (3 years after end of life) and management functionality. IGEL enables enterprises to save vast amounts of money by extending the useful life of their existing endpoint devices while precisely controlling all devices running IGEL OS from a single dashboard interface. IGEL has offices worldwide and is represented by partners in over 50 countries. For more information on IGEL, visit www.igel.com.

Learn the new rules of cloud storage

by Buurst Staff | Latest News, News Releases, Webinars

SoftNAS is now Buurst, and we’re about to change the enterprise cloud storage industry as you know it.

Watch the recording of our groundbreaking live webinar announcement on 4/15/20 and learn how:

To reduce your cloud storage costs, and save up to 80% on cloud storage costs and increase performance (yes, you read that right!)

Applying configuration variables will maximize data performance, without storage limitations

Companies such as Halliburton, SAP, and Boeing are already taking advantage of these rules and effectively managing Petabytes of data in the cloud

Who should watch?

Cloud Architects, CIO, CTO, VP Infrastructure, Data Center Architects, Platform Architects, Application Developers, Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, VP
Technology, VP IT, VP BI/Data Analytics, Solutions Architects

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) customers, Amazon FSx customers, Azure NetApp File System (NFS) customers, Isilon customers

SoftNAS Names Garry Olah as CEO, Vic Mahadevan to Board of Directors

by Buurst Staff | News Releases

Experienced storage executives add strong leadership background and a deep understanding of the market dynamics and opportunities to grow cloud data platform business

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoftNAS®, a leading cloud data platform for business-critical applications, today announced that Garry Olah will join the company as president and chief executive officer. Olah brings more than twenty years of experience in the software industry, having played key roles in both startups and large corporations, as well as in the growth of many innovative technology companies as an advisor. In addition to Olah, the company also today announced that former NetApp® chief strategy officer Vic Mahadevan will join the board of directors as chairman.

“Over the last few years, we’ve had the opportunity to create a group of advisors who bring extensive experience in the cloud and storage industries and are fortunate to now add Garry and Vic”
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Known for his expertise building cloud partner sales models and creating momentum for growth, Olah’s broad areas of expertise include business development, alliance building, sales, marketing and disruptive tech. Prior to SoftNAS, Olah was both a partner at Prime Foray and founder and managing partner of Vedify where he was responsible for advising companies focused on enterprise cloud, SaaS and mobility. His guidance helped several companies position for partnership and expand their market footprint, coordinating the objectives of a venture with small, mid and large cap businesses.

Vedify drove clients to positive results, assisting Quest on strategy through the $2B+ “go private” efforts, ScaleExtreme (Acquired by Citrix), BlueStacks, Apprenda, Lookout and others. Olah held VP of Business Development positions at GoodData, Coho Data, Apprenda and Citrix and has served on various industry boards, including as a six-year member of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), Software Division where he was Chairman.

“Over the last few years, we’ve had the opportunity to create a group of advisors who bring extensive experience in the cloud and storage industries and are fortunate to now add Garry and Vic,” said Randolph Henry, who will retire as Chairman of the Board and remain as a board member. “These are two important positions for us. Their collective expertise leading global companies, driving strategic vision and executing with operational rigor will be invaluable to SoftNAS as we scale and grow. We are excited to add these successful industry veterans to our leadership team.”

Vic Mahadevan is CEO of Dev Solutions Inc., a consultancy to technology startups. Prior to Dev Solutions, Mahadevan served as chief strategy officer for NetApp. In this position, he was responsible for leading NetApp’s business strategy and identifying additional market and product opportunities to fuel future growth. Mahadevan was also responsible for driving strategic planning, managing acquisitions and supporting NetApp’s strategic alliances and partnership teams. Before NetApp, he held a number of executive leadership positions including VP of marketing for LSI Corporation, CEO of NeoEdge Networks, VP/GM of BMC Software’s Storage Management Business Unit and VP/GM of Compaq’s Storage Business Unit. Mahadevan holds an MBA in marketing and MS in engineering from the University of Iowa, as well as a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

“My goal is to extend SoftNAS’ position as the trusted leader in migrating business-critical applications to the cloud. The combination of sustained app performance, the growing need for better cloud-economics and enterprise’s moving their apps and data to the cloud give SoftNAS a significant opportunity,” said Olah. “SoftNAS has tremendous growth potential and the ability to become the de facto standard in cloud NAS.”

“I am pleased to join and bring my experience in the storage market to the SoftNAS board,” said Mahadevan. “SoftNAS has a strong customer base, great technology and is well positioned at this pivotal time in our industry as cloud migration heats up.”

About SoftNAS

SoftNAS® leads the cloud storage industry by helping customers overcome native performance and storage limitations when migrating business-critical application data from on-premises to the AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds. By delivering enterprise-class NAS features and flexible architectures, SoftNAS proves customers don’t have to sacrifice sustained high-performance to maintain reasonable cloud economics. Some of the largest enterprises are powered by SoftNAS including Samsung, T-Mobile, Coca-Cola, Boeing, Netflix, L’Oréal and WWE. To learn more about SoftNAS and cloud storage, follow @SoftNAS on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or the SoftNAS blog.

Contacts

Yolande Yip
yolande@softnas.com

SoftNAS Releases Web-based Calculator to Pinpoint Public Cloud Storage Cost Savings

by Buurst Staff | News Releases

SoftNAS SmartTiers™ Cost Savings Calculator

Now with the SoftNAS SmartTiers™ Cost Savings Calculator, customers can actually see how much potential savings from public cloud storage costs they can realize by using SoftNAS 4, without sacrificing performance

SoftNAS® SmartTiers™ is a patent pending, automated storage tiering feature that delivers optimal price/performance for cloud storage that moves aging data from more expensive, high-performance block/SSD storage to less expensive object storage, according to customer-set policies, reducing public cloud storage costs by up to 67 percent. (Graphic: Business Wire)

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoftNAS^® today announced general availability of a simple-to-use but powerful cost-savings calculator for public cloud storage called SoftNAS^® SmartTiers™ Cost Savings Calculator. The calculator is able to show customers how much they can potentially save on storage costs from public cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) and Microsoft^® Azure™ by using the automated storage tiering feature of SoftNAS 4.

As noted in the “Data Age 2025” white paper¹ (sponsored by Seagate), IDC forecasts that by 2025 the total worldwide data will balloon in size to 163 zettabytes. For companies looking to store data in the public cloud, balancing cost, availability and performance presents a challenge. Being able to calculate the optimal amount of public cloud storage costs based on specific use cases will become a critical component for determining what applications and data will be moved into the cloud. The tool, which is free of charge and accessible from the SoftNAS website, is intended to help companies pinpoint and quantify the storage cost savings associated with moving their applications and data from on-premises datacenter environments into the public cloud.

The SmartTiers Cost Savings Calculator provides customers with a simple, clean interface for entering in a few key data points and then dynamically presenting in graphical form what the cost for public cloud storage would be both with and without using SoftNAS SmartTiers, as well as, the potential savings that could be achieved with SoftNAS SmartTiers. After filling out the simple and quick registration form, users also receive detailed email reports. The multi-page detailed report breaks down the potential costs and savings over a three year period.

SoftNAS 4 advanced storage auto-tiering feature: SoftNAS SmartTiers Calculator

SoftNAS^® SmartTiers™ is a patent pending, automated storage tiering feature that delivers optimal price/performance for cloud storage that moves aging data from more expensive, high-performance block/SSD storage to less expensive object storage, according to customer-set policies, reducing public cloud storage costs by up to 67 percent and is currently available for beta testing. Object storage is up to 20 times less expensive than SSD storage in the cloud. SmartTiers Cost Savings Calculator quickly pinpoints how much SoftNAS can save customers while continuing to deliver top-notch performance results.

“The SoftNAS SmartTiers Cost Savings Calculator demonstrates that users of SoftNAS 4 can potentially realize significant savings on their public cloud storage costs from cloud infrastructure vendors like AWS and Azure. SoftNAS has delivered a cloud breakthrough with its automated storage tiering technology (SmartTiers) and the web-based tool that allows companies to plug in their own numbers to test various storage tiering options for maximum cost savings — not just with one public cloud vendor’s storage options but between different cloud storage vendors,” said George Crump, President and Founder of Storage Switzerland.

“SoftNAS 4 provides the unique ability to save customers up to two-thirds of their public cloud storage costs, without sacrificing application performance. SmartTiers is such a game-changing capability that customers are telling us that without SmartTiers, they can’t afford to move large applications and data into the cloud. The new calculator makes that business calculus fast and easy, and SmartTiers paves the way for customers to both save money and get the performance they need in the public cloud. It’s the difference between cloud storage being affordable versus a non-starter compared to on-premises for many customers,” said Rick Braddy, CEO and Founder of SoftNAS.

SoftNAS 4 is available in three product editions that run on AWS, Microsoft Azure and VMware vSphere. With the release of SoftNAS 4, customers can now launch all SoftNAS products on-demand, directly from the AWS and Azure Marketplaces to spin up cloud data solutions with SmartTiers in just minutes with no prior purchasing approvals.

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.

Buurst SoftNAS^®, pioneered cloud data control and management with its SoftNAS 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™, Microsoft^® Azure™ and VMware vSphere^®.