Canadian reseller scoops exclusive Aussie deal

Canadian reseller SereniTaaS will start serving Australia remotely after winning the local agency for Zadara Storage.

SereniTaaS is a father-and-son partnership run by Glenn and Stephen Cameron, who also operate 30-staff Canadian outfit Stratus Technologies.

The Camerons flew down under to attend AWS Summit in Sydney, where they told CRN they have established a local presence to service keystone client Echo360, a provider of digital tertiary education tools.

SereniTaaS is an AWS consulting partner and has hosted the local instance of Zadara on the AWS cloud at Equinix in Sydney.

The reseller is not planning to put any boots on the ground immediately, instead Glenn Cameron said he was negotiating with a local distie to provide the salesforce.

Zadara calls its technology Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSA), which place SAN and NAS technology in the cloud.

According to the vendor, "Modern information technology architectures and infrastructures rely on essential SAN and NAS functionality. Yet, these are not supported by common cloud-based storage alternatives so many databases and applications remain trapped within enterprise data centres.

"VPSAs use native block and file systems to serve storage to your applications using standard, familiar protocols with low latency and high performance."

The model is cloud-only, but SereniTaaS's Glenn Cameron revealed that the company is mulling an on-premise version, whereby commodity hardware running the Zadara solution is installed at client sites and they only pay for what they use.

He said that the Zadara solution uses Toshiba disk drives running on commodity x86 servers from the likes of Cisco, IBM and Huawei.