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We initially started by implementing the ZStorage solution, using different storage tiers to deliver storage resources according to the specific requirements and business needs of each workload.

Based on the successful results, we have already implemented the ZCompute/Cloud solution across our data centers in the state of São Paulo.

As a result, our infrastructure has become more robust and scalable.

Zadara has enabled us to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective IaaS services. Its flexibility allows us to quickly adapt to our customers' needs while maintaining high service quality and competitive pricing.

The best features are scalability, flexibility, reliability, and the broad portfolio of services, including ZStorage, ZCompute, and Zadara Cloud. These solutions make it easier to meet different customer requirements while simplifying infrastructure management.

At this time, I do not identify any significant areas for improvement. The service meets our needs with excellent quality, stability, and outstanding support. My main recommendation is to maintain this high level of excellence while continuing to invest in the ongoing evolution of the platform.

I have been using Zadara for three years.

Yes. Our experience has been very positive. The platform has proven to be reliable and stable, allowing us to deliver services with confidence and consistent performance.

And when troubleshooting was required, Zadara support demonstrated a willingness to interact with other vendors to resolve issues collaboratively. The response was fast and satisfactory.

Scalability is one of Zadara's strongest advantages. The platform allows us to expand resources quickly as customer demands grow without disrupting existing services.

We have a good relationship with the technician team, our experience with customer service and technical support has been excellent. The support team is responsive, knowledgeable, and always willing to help when needed.

In practice, we continue to use solutions from other vendors because, as a service provider, maintaining a multi-vendor environment is essential. This allows us to offer different alternatives based on the specific requirements and characteristics of each project.

The initial setup was straightforward. The platform is well designed, and the available documentation helped simplify the deployment process.

There were no integrator/reseller/consultant for the project, only the Zadara team and our company's architecture and operations teams were involved.

Although I cannot provide exact financial figures, our overall experience has been very positive. Zadara's flexibility, competitive pricing, and simplified infrastructure management have delivered clear operational and business value.

I believe that the pricing, setup costs, and licensing are competitive, attractive, and well aligned with today's flexible Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) consumption model.

In practice, as I mentioned earlier, we continue to use solutions from other vendors because, as a service provider, maintaining a multi-vendor environment is essential. This allows us to offer different alternatives based on the specific requirements and characteristics of each project.

I would rate Zadara 9 or 10. My advice is to evaluate Zadara if you are looking for a modern, scalable, and reliable IaaS platform backed by a responsive support team and flexible pricing.

My main use case for Zadara is for an object storage migration and also for a database migration, focused on shared storage.

I created a shared object storage where I mapped this object storage inside AWS and also on the client's on-premises environment in order to share this data environment and carry out a data migration using Zadara from on-premises to the cloud.

Zadara works in an S3-compatible manner just like AWS, which greatly facilitated the connection using an access key and secret key and enabling multiplatform capabilities in terms of multicloud and various types of clouds. Establishing this connection within an S3 explorer such as S3 Browser allowed us to show the client where they could see the files and attach files from a Windows desktop, for example, and follow the process of uploading to the cloud in such a way that this becomes transparent directly to AWS S3 because we did this mapping inside Zadara.

Zadara offers a dynamic multicloud API capability that connects with the main clouds on the market at the moment, and I believe this is the main differentiator for a storage solution. Considering a block that can be mounted in any cloud at any time, the client's primary data in block format can be here in AWS and suddenly it can be moved to a Google API without having to migrate the data again. You can simply connect a new API, and that is a very significant differentiator for me.

Zadara had a positive impact on my organization during the migrations I took part in when I worked at GW Cloud. I worked on migrations of client use cases where Zadara brought a cost-benefit advantage for the client thanks to a more direct partnership with Zadara, and this made it much cheaper than doing a digital transformation where the data has to be transferred via very high data transfer on AWS or via large block storage to move anything compatible with that. Zadara offered better cost and better cost-benefit regarding cloud compatibility and also data traffic over the internet.

I would like to share something that I believe could improve Zadara's process, which is the issue of communication with databases. Today we have MongoDB as a cloud service, so integration with databases in Zadara would bring better performance in connection in SaaS models and in dynamic models that could bring a platform and a solution that could increase Zadara's usage in the market and in its business scope.

Zadara can improve in the database integration area as I mentioned. Zadara can have better dynamism such as MongoDB in SaaS and bring this better dynamism by connecting and offering it within the clouds as a possibility of block storage within that partner cloud, such as AWS EBS, Google's cloud storage, or something within Azure. Creating a stronger partnership where this block storage can become an API connectable across various clouds but native to those clouds would be beneficial.

I noticed simplicity in the security part during the time I used Zadara, so I believe Zadara's security needs to improve to provide more and deliver more security visibility to the end customer so that they feel more secure with data encryption and attack protection. A WAF on the API connection that goes through greater protection, something along those lines, could help guarantee that the data is protected by Zadara.

Zadara is stable. While I was using Zadara, I never had a problem. The security and control side, for what it offered, gave total stability.

Zadara's scalability in my experience is smooth and it was very practical because the physical part is not really up to us. The Zadara team handled changes to hard drive RAID and the storage that made up all the logical part, and it was very transparent to the end user.

When I had experience with Zadara, the team in Brazil was in a very early stage, so support was not that efficient. However, we always had good initial support and when they could not solve something, we waited a bit and then got proper support.

We previously used S3, the cloud's own object storage, we used the clouds' EBS, and also within the data center, we used VMware. Zadara brought the possibility of doing these migrations from the on-premises environment to the cloud with ease of handling data.

I did not acquire Zadara through the AWS Marketplace. It was a partnership that the company had with Zadara, GW Cloud, and then we delivered a Zadara inside a data center that connected with AWS and used a Direct Connect there to use Zadara in that sense.

Currently, I work in an organization that does not use Zadara. I have worked in an organization that used Zadara, and there was a partnership that enabled hybrid cloud, both private and public.

I am on the technical side regarding return on investment, so I can only talk about the project I worked on. As I said earlier, the project had a calculated cost that was fifteen thousand dollars, and came to an amount of six to seven thousand dollars with Zadara.

Before choosing Zadara, I evaluated other options such as AWS Storage Gateway, the options of shipping the physical hard drive itself, Hitachi, Datash storage functionalities, and Veeam backup and recovery tools.

The reasons for my seven out of ten score include the points I mentioned: the security part, API integration, and the flexibility between clouds that still needs improvement.

My advice for others considering using Zadara is to research security thoroughly, about Zadara's evolution, the guarantees it provides, and what the cloud flexibility is to be used in the project, and mainly its role in the project. Whether it is migration, regular use, or building a cloud-native platform or something along those lines, you can apply Zadara in that build. I rate Zadara a seven on a scale of one to ten.

My main use case for Zadara is to build and validate the GPU as a Service and the AI sovereignty that they're working on.

I have developed a tool that works based on GPU as a Service, and it also complies with the AI sovereignty concepts. The LLM is being run on GPU as a Service, and the interface is local with documents that are processed and chunked stored locally on the GPU server. This ensures that data does not leave the organization, which complies with AI sovereignty requirements.

This is the main use case that I am currently focused on without any other distractions.

The best features Zadara offers include 99% compute availability, and the redundancy mechanism that supports this is significant. Features like GPU as a Service can help bring down the operational cost of a physical GPU, and they are currently working on AI sovereignty and the AI factor.

Zadara has positively impacted my organization as it has added power and momentum to our vision, particularly when working with AI.

Zadara can be improved by making their interfaces more attractive. They currently look like simple PHP interfaces, but they need to customize and work on their interfaces and user interfaces significantly.

I have been using Zadara for the past year or a couple of years.

Zadara is stable.

Zadara's scalability is perfectly configured. There is no need to worry about scalability because the virtual machine automatically detects the load and then takes the load balance.

The support that Zadara provides feels like calling a friend for help.

I previously worked with Google Cloud Platform and AWS platform solutions. I switched because Google Compute was not available when needed, so the virtual machine had to be reset every time. With AWS, the pricing was increasing significantly, so I needed an alternative solution. That is why I took a different approach.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was straightforward. The process involves filling out fields or columns related to pricing and the application that will be used, and then they send a price quote. The process is simple and straightforward, but the pricing needs to be a little more public.

I can see the return on investment because we are saving around 15 to 18% of the operational cost when compared to AWS.

I have evaluated Zadara against every other public and private cloud option.

Regarding Zadara's AI capabilities, I think it depends on the MSPs that they are performing collaborations with, and based on that, the MSPs are responsible for configuring the data governance or any kind of certifications that are placed on Zadara. Zadara normally has certain default governance things, and everything else depends on the local or region-specific governance rules.

Regarding Zadara's AI capabilities, I feel they are quick. I was trying two models on the same GPU that they were providing, and they were allocating the resources with me. This experience was good, and I would rate it around 9 to 9.5.

The first choice would be Zadara depending on the solution. However, I cannot really say Zadara would be the primary choice because it truly depends on the application or the objective that is being pursued.

I would rate this review an 8 overall.