Zadara Storage, a global provider of enterprise-class Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) based in Irvine, Calif., and MEGAZONE Corporation, a Korean cloud-specialized IT company, today announced a strategic alliance. The collaboration between the two companies was designed to meet customers' needs for sophisticated, high-performance, high-capacity enterprise-class cloud storage solutions. Zadara is an award-winning, worldwide vendor of enterprise STaaS, providing high performance, highly available block, file and object storage with predictable Quality of Service (QoS). Zadara is an Advanced Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Servicecs (AWS) Partner Network (APN), and MEGAZONE is an APN Premier Consulting Partner.

The Zadara Storage Cloud and software-defined VPSA^® Storage Arrays deliver elastic, multi-tenant enterprise SAN, NAS and object storage technology for peta-scale primary and secondary storage. With isolated resources, exceptional data security, management control and predictable performance, VPSA Storage Arrays meet the most stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs), even in cloud deployments. Providing a flexible and cost-effective storage infrastructure for enterprises, small to medium-sized businesses and start-ups, VPSAs also are available as fully-managed On-Premises as-a-Service (OPaaS).

"I believe Zadara is one of the best cloud-based storage providers, with scalability as its competitive edge, which is able to meet the needs of domestic enterprise customers. We aim to capture the Korean enterprise cloud storage market, in cooperation with Zadara, by addressing the needs of our customers including the ones in financial and public sectors, who need to comply with local regulations, such as high-capacity, high-performance, SLA (Service Level Agreement) and indicating the physical location of data. In addition, we are planning on delivering integrated managed services in the meantime, including AWS Cloud implementation and operations, utilizing capabilities we have," said Max Lee, CSO at MEGAZONE Corporation.

"We are thrilled to be aligning with MEGAZONE to support the dynamic and rapidly growing Korean market," said Noam Shendar, vice president and GM, Hyperscale Cloud Business, at Zadara Storage. "The combination of the Zadara Storage Cloud with MEGAZONE's proven technical, marketing and sales capabilities is a winning recipe for local companies."

The two companies conducted a successful co-marketing event and their consulting and engineering teams held a consultation session for on-site clients at AWS Cloud 2018 on January 18, 2018.