With the introduction of SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials, SoftNAS Cloud® NAS is changing its name to SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise, in order to differentiate it from the new object-storage focused addition to our family. With this change, SoftNAS is also introducing several new platinum beta features, made available to all of our customers for evaluation and testing prior to launch. In order to ensure existing clients day to day operations are not affected by the risks of evaluation software, our platinum beta features remain dormant code until the client selects one of the platinum features, and accepts the prompt indicating they are aware that they are opening a beta feature, not recommended for production environments.
SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise is a network attached storage (NAS) virtual appliance. Our products are commercial-grade storage management solutions for businesses that require high-speed, reliable storage at affordable prices. SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise edition is a software-defined, full-featured enterprise cloud NAS filer for primary data using either block, object or both types of storage. SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise enables existing applications to securely migrate to the cloud without re-engineering and with dedicated and predictably high performance. With enterprise-class NAS features like: high-availability, in-line deduplication, compression, thin-provisioning, snapshots and rollbacks, replication, cloning, encryption (at-rest and in-transit), LDAP and Active Directory integration, and support for NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI or AFP storage protocols, SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise protects mission-critical and primary, active/hot data. SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise offers the broadest range of storage options in terms of price vs. performance and backend storage selection, on-demand at petabyte scale across the AWS and Azure Marketplaces or on-premises.
SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise supports the following platforms:
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Architecture and Technology
SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise runs as a Linux®-based, 64-bit CentOS redistribution guest OS treated as a VM in a virtual server environment. In many use cases, storage devices are attached to the physical hardware layer, then presented to SoftNAS Cloud® as a VM running Linux.
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SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise is packaged with a primary administration interface called SoftNAS StorageCenter™, which provides commercial-grade storage administration and management functionalities for businesses of all sizes. 
Cloud Computing:
SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise provides the highly-available network storage backbone needed for business-critical cloud applications in the following environments:
Premise-Based Computing:
SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise installs from a download to act as a virtual server appliance. Run as many instances of SoftNAS Cloud® VM as are needed in any of the following environments:
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