ITMAP for Storage as a Service

Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) represents the convergence of on-premises storage infrastructure with cloud-like consumption economics. In this model, vendors own, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade storage arrays within the customer's own data center or colocation facility, billing on a pay-per-use basis across committed and on-demand capacity tiers. This delivers the data sovereignty, performance, and control of dedicated infrastructure while shifting spending from CapEx to OpEx and offloading procurement, provisioning, and lifecycle management to the vendor. STaaS distinguishes itself from public cloud storage by keeping data on dedicated, customer-located hardware rather than shared multi-tenant cloud platforms.

Vendors and products in this market

• Dell Technologies — APEX Data Storage Services
• Fujitsu — uSCALE
• HPE — HPE GreenLake for Block / File Storage
• Hitachi Vantara — EverFlex
• IBM — IBM Storage as a Service
• Lenovo — TruScale Infinite Storage
• NetApp — NetApp Keystone
• Pure Storage — Evergreen//One (Pure-as-a-Service)
• Zadara — zStorage

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