Zadara is a

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company founded in 2011, with headquarters in

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. The company develops computer software that it markets as storage-as-a-service, which can be used for

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or on-premises servers, a model sometimes called

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History

Zadara Storage was founded in 2011 with $3 million in start-up funding. In 2012, the company introduced cloud-based storage to

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's public cloud customers. The storage was designed to be used as

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in conjunction with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The company started by selling block data storage for

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(SAN), and later added

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(NAS) for cloud customers. In July 2012 the company completed a $7 million first funding round. 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. In 2014, Zadara was named a Cool Vendor by informational technology advisory firm

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. In September 2018, the company closed a $25 million series C funding round, led by Israel Growth Partners. 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." In February 2021, Zadara acquired developer NeoKarm, the developer of an

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-compatible cloud system. Also in February, the company became the official sponsor of

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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. The operating software combines the company's proprietary software with third-party software including

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, and allows the storage to be distributed to different users or tenants in a multi-tenant environment. The platform allows users to create private clouds consisting of multiple

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virtual storage arrays. In addition to its

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and file storage services, the company also sells

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-compliant object storage services. The Zadara Storage Backup to Amazon S3 (B2S3) product allows automatic backups from Zadara Storage Cloud to Amazon S3-compatible storage. Zadara Container Services is technology that embeds Docker

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into Zadara's storage arrays.

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