Save up to 80% cloud storage cost

US Signal saved 80% on cloud storage costs with SoftNAS^®

US Signal gained immediate benefit using SoftNAS as their preferred cloud storage NAS. To lead this effort Berant Lemmenes, R&D Engineer at US Signal made it possible to offer customers a high-performing, flexible, scalable cloud NAS that helps US Signal meet pricing models and impacts our savings by more than 80% cloud storage costs.

Challenge

• US Signal grew concerned about the technical limitations of its NAS solution.
• The existing NAS solution had replication and protocol limitations for their object-based OpenStack object storage.

Why SoftNAS for clod storage cost control

• Berant Lemmenes sought a solution that could easily communicate with S3 storage.
• The R&D Engineer needed a NAS solution that provides a high performance, flexibility, and scalability.
• He wanted the offering to have both CIFS/NFS support.

Results

• US Signal offers unmetered data transfer in and out of the storage array and seamless integration into their cloud hosting products or private WAN services.
• US Signal sells cloud storage to its customers who utilize SoftNAS transparently, both as a backup target and a general off-site NAS.
• Customers utilizing cloud storage can easily share files with colleagues, archive documents and securely store company data.