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SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4



Cloud Field Day 4

Rick Braddy presents for SoftNAS

This Presentation date is August 8, 2018 at 10:00 - 12:00.

SoftNAS Resources

  • SoftNAS Cloud Platinum Edition Data Sheet
  • SoftNAS Cloud Data Platform Data Sheet


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SoftNAS Company Overview with Rick Braddy


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Rick Braddy, Founder, CEO, and CTO, introduces the company and the genesis of what lead him to found it. The company was founded in 2012 with an initial focus on making cloud NAS capabilities available, easy to deploy, and cost-effective in the public cloud.

Personnel: Rick Braddy

SoftNAS Product Overview with John-Marc Clark


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John-Marc Clark, Vice President of Marketing, looks at SoftNAS Cloud 4, their fourth major release since 2012. The product contains three product editions and supports AWS, Azure, and VMware with support for other cloud platform vendors on the roadmap. The newest product edition is SoftNAS Cloud Platinum and is the company’s flagship hybrid-cloud / multi-cloud product.

Personnel: John-Marc Clark

SoftNAS Product Flexibility with John Bedrick


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John Bedrick, Senior Director of Product Marketing, looks at how SoftNAS Cloud provides companies flexibility in pricing options with choices of three product editions, support for both block and object storage, choice of compute instances, choice of storage protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS, AFP and iSCSI) and choice of operating locations: public cloud (AWS and Azure), private cloud / on-premises, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud environments to support multiple solutions.

Personnel: John Bedrick

SoftNAS SmartTiers Feature Overview with John Bedrick


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John Bedrick, Senior Director of Product Marketing, looks at SoftNAS SmartTiers, which is a SoftNAS patent-pending, automated storage tiering feature that moves aging data from more expensive, high- performance block storage to less expensive object storage according to your policies, reducing public cloud storage costs by up to two-thirds versus other available solutions.

The SoftNAS SmartTiers Cost Savings Calculator is a web-based calculator that can be used to show the potential savings a customer could save off the normal public cloud storage costs through the use of the SmartTiers feature contained within the SoftNAS Cloud Platinum edition.

Personnel: John Bedrick

SoftNAS Cloud 4 Feature Deep Dive with Adam Marano


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Adam Marano, Vice President of Product Management, reviews the features of SoftNAS Cloud 4. In addition to including a full-featured enterprise-grade NAS, there are key features of SoftNAS Cloud Platinum that truly differentiate the SoftNAS Solution. Adam dives deeper into automated storage tiering (SmartTiers), Object storage I/O acceleration (ObjFast), and highspeed bulk data transfer (UltraFast).

Personnel: Adam Marano

SoftNAS Cloud 4 Lift and Shift Overview with Adam Marano


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Adam Marano, Vice President of Product Management, reviews another feature of SoftNAS Cloud 4. This presentation includes a look at Lift & Shift with continuous sync, and Data integration & Transformation (FlexFiles powered by Apache NiFi).

Personnel: Adam Marano


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