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Wasabi, Vultr Tout the Benefits of Cloud 2.0 for Cloud Computing and Storage

Cloud 2.0 is changing the landscape of cloud computing and storage, and Wasabi Technologies and Vultr are leading the way with their joint solution, according to the companies.

“There’s a tremendous synergy between the two companies,” Drew Schlussel, senior director of product marketing at Wasabi, said July 28 during the webinar “Upgrade Your Data Delivery: Next Generation Compute and Cloud Storage Solutions.”

Nathan Wysocki, national sales director at Climb Channel Solutions, moderated the virtual panel discussion.

Vultr is “enabling an economic transformation for folks looking to get away from the hyperscalers [and] spend considerably less money” running their applications, running their operations, and “we compliment that beautifully with Wasabi hot cloud storage,” Schlussel said.

“We’re just trying to make things as easy as possible for our developer community,” according to Walt Ribeiro, developer advocate at Vultr, which he said has over 25 locations [globally] and it’s going to be growing soon.”

Asked by the moderator what benefits the Wasabi/Vultr solution provides over hyperscalers, Schlussel said: “When you work with a hyperscaler, you have to recognize that they have hundreds of services, which is fantastic if you need hundreds of services and you want to pay a premium for accessing all those services. But if you just need the most fundamental capabilities – running your virtual machines, running your Kubernetes containers – and you need some storage to support that, there are better alternatives.”

And that, he said, “is what the whole conversation is about.” Vultur and Wasabi “together give you an incredible cost alternative without sacrificing any performance, any fundamental capabilities to run your applications, to run your organization,” he added.

Vultr is a global company, “but one of [the] biggest things about Vultr is that “we’re an independent cloud,” according to Ribeiro.

“So if you’re an independent developer” or another independent client, “Vultr is here for you [and] … we’re on your team,” he said.

Additionally, “when you compare Vultr versus the actual hyperscalers, it’s not just about the price to performance … it’s also just about the fact that we have better customer support,” Ribeiro said. “We have better products, we have simpler products and better ease of use, and we have better partnerships” also, he added.

Asked by the moderator what he’s hearing from folks in the field that are looking for an alternative to the hyperscalers, Evan Zakow, channel sales manager at Wasabi Technologies, replied: “At the end of the day, everyone wants to keep things simple. I know in my daily life, I like to keep things simple. So when you’re building a business or you’ve been doing it for, you know, quite some time, you want to focus on what is important — and that’s whether it’s a product or service — whatever it is.”

Wysocki went on to predict that, as “I look at Cloud 2.0, that’s a thing that’s here to stay.”

Cloud 1.0 was “kind of lifting and shifting from on-prem, you know, into somebody else’s data center, and the billing was exceptionally complicated,” according to Schlussel. “And guess what? It still is because Cloud 1.0 [has] really only matured to like 1.1. There hasn’t really been any kind of revolutionary change.”

Cloud 2.0 is a significant improvement that makes everything more simple and predictable, according to Schlussel. He noted: “The billing … is exceptionally straightforward [so] you know exactly what you’re paying for. That is the bottom line for Cloud 2.0.”

For Ribeiro, “when things go from being on-prem to being off-prem, it’s now about scaling that off-prem, it’s about having more locations, getting closer to the user’s fingertips that you’re getting closer to this actual edge computing to where you’re accessible just all around the globe,” he said.

In addition to improved pricing, “things get a lot more efficient” also, Ribeiro added.

“So you’re not just running maybe two or three data centers around the world for storage. You’re now running 25, 30, 40 locations – maybe even more to where things can get passed, and then you have data recovery and you have backup zones, he said.