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Zadara pros and cons

Vendor: Zadara

4.3 out of 5

16 reviews
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Pros & Cons summary

Zadara excels in cloud integration with platforms like Amazon EC2, offering high IOPS through its all-flash design. It ensures significant cost savings, though pricing in some regions like South Africa is high. Comprehensive services such as 24/7 management highlight its capability, though user feedback suggests improvements in system stability and proactive updates. Users note limitations in supported operating systems and express desire for better firmware upgrade coordination and VMware support.

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PROS

Zadara excels in integration with other cloud solutions, allowing seamless connections with platforms like Amazon EC2 and maintaining low latency.

There are significant cost savings, with estimates of 50 to 60 percent over five years compared to self-managed solutions.

Zadara's all-flash design ensures high IOPS and satisfactory storage performance, facilitating fast processing and easy expansion.

It offers comprehensive services, including 24/7 management, reducing support costs and enabling focus on core business operations.

Immutable object storage and its synergy with Veeam highlight the flexibility and capability Zadara provides to businesses entering the cloud market.

CONS

User feedback indicates a desire for Zadara to be more proactive with patches and updates, including better disclosure and coordination with customers regarding available fixes and enhancements.

Some users report issues with Zadara's performance, such as slow market feature introductions, performance problems, and disruptions during firmware upgrades.

Zadara's stability has been questioned, with suggestions for improvements in recovering from outages and overall system stability.

The pricing of Zadara is considered high, with some regions like South Africa and Ethiopia noting that the costs are not competitive, especially given the pay-per-use model.

There are limitations in the range of supported operating systems, specifically the lack of support for systems like IBM AIX, and users express a need for more comprehensive VMware support.

Zadara Pros review quotes

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Adeilson Araujo

Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil

Jul 22, 2026

Zadara offered better cost and better cost-benefit regarding cloud compatibility and also data traffic over the internet.

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NV

AI product lead at Sortis

Jul 18, 2026

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

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KN

Krhistopher Novak

Analista de cloud at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 18, 2026

Zadara's best features are the ease of provisioning the environment and its intuitive design.

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Kirubel Behailu

Cloud System Engineer at cloud251

Nov 11, 2024

I find Zadara's user-friendliness from both the customer and engineering perspectives highly appreciated.

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KirillKolesnikov

IT Technical Architect at AVALIS

Mar 28, 2025

Zadara saves both time and money.

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reviewer1778676

Vice President, Head of Infrastructure, Information Systems Group at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 14, 2024

It provides very satisfactory storage performance.

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SH

CTO at Pratum

Aug 10, 2022

One of the most valuable features is its integration with other cloud solutions. We have a presence within Amazon EC2 and we leverage compute instances in there. Being able to integrate with compute, both locally within Zadara, as well as with other cloud vendors such as Amazon, is very helpful, while also being able to maintain extremely low latency between those connections.

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IA

Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 29, 2021

One of the most useful features is that they provide iSCSI as a service.

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Platform and Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 26, 2021

It's very easy to expand and compared to other storage systems that we've used, it's a lot more expandable and a lot more flexible in how it's deployed.

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MR

CEO at Momit Srl

Sep 12, 2022

Zadara Storage Cloud having 24/7 management saves me support and engineering costs because the storage and computing are managed by a third-party. We are able to focus more attention on the customer, which is truly our core business. Even at 1:00 AM or 2:00 AM at night, someone will answer, which is important.

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Zadara Cons review quotes

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Adeilson Araujo

Arquiteto De Cloud at Claro Brasil

Jul 22, 2026

When I had experience with Zadara, the team in Brazil was in a very early stage, so support was not that efficient.

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NV

AI product lead at Sortis

Jul 18, 2026

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.

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Krhistopher Novak

Analista de cloud at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 18, 2026

One point to improve Zadara is to make the limitations clear.

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Kirubel Behailu

Cloud System Engineer at cloud251

Nov 11, 2024

There is room for improvement in pricing as it is currently quite expensive.

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KirillKolesnikov

IT Technical Architect at AVALIS

Mar 28, 2025

The initial installation was difficult because many steps required the command line interface (CLI). Maintenance can also be complicated, especially when deeper troubleshooting requires navigating the CLI and searching for logs.

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reviewer1778676

Vice President, Head of Infrastructure, Information Systems Group at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 14, 2024

Currently, when we do firmware upgrades, it sometimes causes issues and is not as nondisruptive as desired.

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SH

CTO at Pratum

Aug 10, 2022

I would like to see them be a little bit more proactive in terms of the patches and updates that are available. I would like to see more disclosure and information around what fixes or what enhancements are available within a patch, and help in coordinating and scheduling that. Right now, it's driven more by the customer in reaching out via a support ticket.

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IA

Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 29, 2021

Having iSCSI over the internet using a VPN, the IPSec tunnel is really the only thing that I find missing from this product.

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Platform and Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 26, 2021

The management interface is more geared towards end-users rather than a service partner like ourselves, and there are improvements that can be made around that.

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MR

CEO at Momit Srl

Sep 12, 2022

There are still some storage features that they lack. For example, other vendors implemented the auto-tiering feature a long time ago, while Zadara Storage Cloud is just coming out with this feature today. So, they are a little bit late compared to the market.

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