Non-Stop HA Shared Storage on AWS with SoftNAS™ Cloud

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Non-Stop HA Shared Storage on AWS with SoftNAS™ Cloud
The no compromise safety net for mission-critical data in the cloud.
Highly available NFS, CIFS and iSCSI for
non-stop storage in the AWS cloud
“Cross-zone high-availability
eliminates the last hesitation
businesses may have with full cloud
adoption.”
— Rick Braddy, CEO
SoftNAS LLC
Non-Stop Shared Storage
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Makes cloud storage safer for
business-critical applications
Protects mission-critical data in
the cloud
Increases storage uptime with
99.999% reliability
(5 minutes/year downtime)
Increases application
performance and processing
speeds via faster storage
performance
Scales to billions of files
Nothing is more critical to the continuity of your business than your data. Like the
blood in your veins, it has to be safe and available 100% of the time.
SoftNAS™ offers the mission-critical data protection and high-availability required for
the non-stop operation of your business. Simple, powerful and agile, SoftNAS is easy
to try, buy and deploy across public, private and hybrid clouds. SoftNAS Cloud for
AWS™ enables customers to quickly and easily implement hybrid and pure cloud
business solutions that ensure corporate data is always safe and available and
applications do not experience downtime.
Cross-zone High-availability on AWS
SoftNAS is a software-defined NAS filer, delivered as a virtual storage appliance that
runs across all AWS availability zones in all regions. SoftNAS provides enterprisegrade NAS capabilities, including SNAP™ HA with patent pending Elastic HA
technology with automatic failover that keeps data flowing, even when disaster
strikes, an instance fails or an entire AWS availability zone isn’t available.
Pure AWS
Built upon pure AWS components, so
your precious data is always under
your control and management:
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EBS
Provisioned IOPS EBS (SSD)
S3 Cloud Disk (choose region)
Ephemeral SSD caching
Supports all instance types
Supports all AWS regions
Try it free today!
softnas.com/tryaws
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Non-stop NFS, CIFS and iSCSI unified storage and cloud storage
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Cross-zone HA with automatic failover
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99.999% shared storage reliability in the AWS cloud
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Enterprise-grade NAS filer features
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“Cross-zone high-availability
eliminates the last hesitation
businesses may have with full
cloud adoption.”
— Rick Braddy, CEO
SoftNAS LLC
Non-Stop Shared Storage





Makes cloud storage safer
for business-critical
applications
Protects mission-critical
data in the cloud
Increases storage uptime
with 99.999% reliability
(5 minutes/year downtime)
Increases application
performance and
processing speeds via
faster storage
performance
Scales to billions of files
How it Works
Cross-zone HA operates within a VPC. NAS traffic is routed through your choice of
a load balancer or an enhanced elastic IP using SoftNAS patent pending Elastic HA
technology; that is, NFS, CIFS and iSCSI traffic is routed to a primary SoftNAS
controller in one zone, and a secondary controller operates in a different availability
zone. NAS clients can be located in any or all availability zones.
SoftNAS patent pending SnapReplicate™ performs block replication from the primary
controller A to the secondary controller B, keeping it hot with the latest changed data
blocks, once per minute. In the event of a failure in AZ1 shown on the left below,
NAS client traffic automatically fails over to controller B in AZ2 in less than 30
seconds. Upon failover, all NFS, CIFS and iSCSI sessions reconnect with no impact
on NAS clients (i.e. no stale file handles or other ill side-effects and no need to restart
NAS clients, which continue as if nothing had happened).
Pure AWS®
Built upon pure AWS components,
so your precious data is always
under your control and
management:






EBS
Provisioned IOPS EBS
(SSD)
S3 Cloud Disk (choose
region)
Ephemeral SSD caching
Supports all instance
types
Supports all AWS regions
Try SoftNAS Free!
Try it free today!
softnas.com/tryaws
Get the free 30-day trial and get
started in the cloud today!
Create affordable, powerful cloud storage solutions leveraging the power, flexibility
and simplicity with SoftNAS Cloud - in just minutes! It’s easy to get started with the
Free Tier micro instance or a free 30-day trial of any instance type you prefer.
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