What is STaaS?

Nfina offers Storage as a Service solutions that are tailored to your specific data requirements and priced accordingly. By choosing Nfina’s Storage as a Service solutions, you can enjoy significant cost savings compared to public cloud providers, while still benefiting from all the advantages they offer. With Nfina’s Storage as a Service solutions, you get on-premises storage combined with geo-redundant cloud backup, ensuring that your data is both easily accessible and securely backed up.

Additionally, Nfina provides data encryption to safeguard your information, along with robust ransomware protection that includes an instant rollback feature. Furthermore, Nfina also offers Backup and Disaster Recovery testing, enabling you to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster. These are just a few of the many features and benefits you can expect when choosing Nfina’s Storage as a Service solutions.

• With On-Premise Hardware, there is more privacy because you are not sharing network ports or storage with anyone else. On-prem has higher throughput and lower latency than cloud-based solutions. The customer also has full access to the storage appliance to recover, restore, backup, clone, scale, and access multiple geo-redundant locations at a fraction of the cost of the public hyperscale cloud. By choosing STaaS, the customer also can reduce the debt load on their precious IT resources, by outsourcing the day-to-day management to storage experts, without giving up access to the very powerful storage features the on-prem options provide. This is a cap-ex option since the unit is on-prem.
• A Third Option is to let a vendor set up a dedicated private cloud in a nearby COLO facility (giving the advantage of public cloud’s Op-Ex tax treatment) while maintaining full access to storage features remotely. Privacy issues are not as much of a concern, since the infrastructure is not shared. Geo-redundancy Active-active DR becomes much more affordable if you look for vendors that provide un-metered network access. This private cloud architecture may represent the best of both worlds.

Cloud-based data storage can be vulnerable to access based on an internet connection. Therefore, customers must ensure that their cloud provider is secure and compliant with industry standards. Equally so, providers should store data in multiple geo-locations. Georedundancy with a cloud-based system is very expensive, and Active-active disaster recovery is not universally available.

Most providers’ backup solution is Active-passive, meaning you could lose a day or more of data. According to IDC, a day’s worth of data loss for mid-size enterprises is around $300,000 per day. Finding a STaaS Hybrid Cloud solution provider like Nfina is ideal because we offer cloud-based and on-premise redundant storage with Active-active disaster recovery.

Scalability | STaaS provides the flexibility to store, retrieve, and back up data anywhere. STaaS is not just for organizations needing to quickly scale storage capacity to meet changing demands. It is also an excellent solution for companies that require fixed-size storage. Increasing storage capacity can be done numerous ways such as increasing onprem disk capacity, adding JBOD expansion units, and adding cloud storage.

Reliability | Data is stored securely on-premise and in the cloud, reducing the risk of data breaches. Nfina provides Active-active disaster recovery, meaning data can be restored in minutes. Most providers do not offer this or offer it for an exorbitant cost. Our hardware is some of the most reliable in the industry and our performance is enhanced with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon™ Scalable Processors. We also offer a five-year warranty on our products and 24/7 U.S. Tech support.

Security | Data is stored securely in the cloud or on-premise, reducing the risk of data breaches. STaaS is protected by multiple layers of security, including physical security, encryption, and access management. We also store data redundantly both on-prem and in multiple data center locations. The most conscience providers supply customers with multiple geo-locations for storing data.

Cost Savings | STaaS is cost-effective for companies that need to quickly scale up or down their storage, allowing these organizations to only pay for the storage solution they need. Furthermore, STaaS eliminates the need to purchase and maintain storage hardware, resulting in infrastructure cost savings. STaaS also has a much lower debt resource for the buyer since they are outsourcing this, thus freeing up their in-house staff for more strategic projects.

Nfina provides STaaS solutions based on your current data needs and prices accordingly, a notable cost savings over the cost of public cloud providers without compromising any benefits. With Nfina’s STaaS, you receive on-premise storage and geo-redundant cloud backup, data encryption, ransomware protection with an instant rollback feature, Backup and Disaster Recovery testing for business continuity and many more features. Contact us today for details about our STaaS solutions.