Unlocking Scalable, Resilient Storage: Buurst SoftNAS on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

How to Deploy SoftNAS via Oracle Cloud Marketplace

In October 2024, Buurst announced the availability of its flagship product, SoftNAS, on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, marking a major milestone in enterprise cloud storage. This strategic partnership brings together the performance and scale of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with the flexibility and storage protocol breadth of SoftNAS, enabling customers to architect cloud-native and hybrid storage environments tailored to their most demanding workloads. 

Together, Oracle and Buurst are delivering next-generation storage capabilities that empower IT leaders to optimize costs, improve data availability, and accelerate workload performance—all within the secure and scalable foundation of OCI. 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): OCI is a comprehensive platform of public cloud services that enables customers to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance environment. By revolutionizing core engineering and systems designed for cloud computing, OCI enables customers to not only solve problems they have with existing clouds, but also modernize their infrastructure.  

Oracle Cloud Marketplace: Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and services offering unique solutions, including ones that extend Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. At its core, Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a catalog of solutions that extends the functionalities and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Services. To learn more about this marketplace, visit the Oracle Cloud Marketplace webpage.  

Cloud-Ready NAS that Compliments OCI

While OCI offers powerful native storage services like Block Volumes, File Storage Service (FSS), and Object Storage, Buurst’s SoftNAS extends these capabilities by introducing software-defined NAS that supports NFS, CIFS/SMB-AD, and iSCSI—protocols not natively offered across all OCI regions or workloads.

SoftNAS allows businesses to build high-performance, protocol-rich storage solutions directly inside their OCI tenancy. Designed for agility and control, SoftNAS enables:

Seamless migration of on-premises file workloads to OCI.

Advanced support for legacy applications requiring specific protocol compatibility.

Integration into hybrid and multi-cloud architectures without vendor lock-in.

Key Use Case: Media Transcoding in Containers

Consider a media production company using OCI and OKE to run a video transcoding pipeline. Video files—large, compressed, and high-throughput—need to be accessed concurrently by multiple worker pods for encoding, watermarking, and segment generation. The team initially deployed OCI FSS for shared storage but encountered latency bottlenecks, especially when hundreds of pods accessed the same volume.

By switching to SoftNAS:

• They enabled inline compression and deduplication, cutting storage use by over 35%.
• Configured read-ahead caching to accelerate large sequential reads.
• Tuned NFS concurrency and I/O thread pool to match the transcoding workload.

The result was a 3x improvement in transcoding throughput, reduced cloud spend, and higher CI/CD deployment velocity—all within their existing OCI account and Kubernetes deployment.

Marketplace Deployment: Bringing Enterprise Storage to OCI

Now available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, SoftNAS can be deployed rapidly inside any OCI environment. This direct integration simplifies procurement, enables standardized billing through OCI, and ensures architectural alignment with Oracle Cloud standards.

The benefits of this collaboration include:

• Accelerated Workloads: SoftNAS is optimized for data-intensive applications such as media processing, CAD/CAE, scientific computing, and high-throughput file sharing.
• Global Scalability: Customers can spin up SoftNAS instances across OCI’s global regions to serve various data-intensive workloads, disaster recovery, or regional compliance requirements.
• Simple Deployment: Integrated with OCI Compute and Block Volumes, SoftNAS is deployable via VMware or native hypervisor stacks, with minimal setup and maintenance overhead.
• Optimized Cost Control: SoftNAS enables caching, reducing overall cloud spend while improving performance.
• Enterprise-grade Availability: Support for high availability clusters and replication across OCI availability domains ensures resilient operations.

Extending OCI’s Capabilities: What SoftNAS Adds

OCI customers looking to expand beyond traditional block and object storage can benefit significantly from the protocol flexibility of SoftNAS. By supporting multi-protocol access, SoftNAS bridges the gap between modern cloud applications and legacy file-based workloads. 

For example, Oracle’s Block Volumes are ideal for persistent, high-performance storage needs—but they don’t natively support NFS or SMB, which are required by many enterprise workloads. SoftNAS adds: 

• NFS v3/v4 for Linux and UNIX file shares. 
• SMB/CIFS with Active Directory integration for Windows environments.
• iSCSI support for block-level storage scenarios. 

This enables seamless integration of existing applications without requiring refactoring or expensive third-party storage appliances. 

Building Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures with OCI + SoftNAS

Today’s enterprises increasingly operate across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Whether due to compliance, data sovereignty, or performance needs, IT teams must orchestrate data across multiple locations with precision and reliability. 

SoftNAS enables this by supporting: 

• Cross-region replication within OCI for disaster recovery. 
• Data migration from on-premises to OCI using  efficient replication methods. 
• Inter-cloud replication across AWS, Azure, and OCI—providing true multi-cloud data portability. 
• Unified data access across clouds and regions using consistent protocol support. 

By combining OCI’s global infrastructure footprint with SoftNAS’s cross-cloud capabilities, customers can build resilient architectures that avoid vendor lock-in while maintaining full control over data locality and availability. 

High Availability (HA), Disaster Recover (DR) and Business Continuity

One of the core strengths of this partnership is the ability to deliver enterprise-grade availability and business continuity using SoftNAS’s SnapReplicate capabilities. 

SNAP HA offers: 

• Automatic failover between storage instances within the same OCI region . 
• Data replication, ensuring data consistency and minimal recovery times. 
• 99.999% availability, supporting mission-critical applications that require uninterrupted data access. 

These features complement OCI’s availability domains (ADs) and fault domains (FDs), enabling customers to architect true high-availability clusters with low RTO/RPO targets.  Various use cases will dictate HA and DR workloads. 

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Real World Success: A Middle East Customer Case Study

One notable deployment example involves a customer based in the Middle East who faced significant challenges with their legacy on-premises storage replication. The customer required: 

• Highly available storage architecture. 
• Disaster recovery across clouds. 
• Seamless protocol support for legacy file systems. 

Using SoftNAS on OCI via OCVS, Buurst deployed a primary HA storage instance in one OCI  region, paired with a secondary DR  instance in another Cloud Provider (i.e. true Multi-Cloud, DR!). The architecture utilized OCI compute and networking resources, paired with SoftNAS replication and failover, to ensure that mission-critical applications remained available, performant, and protected—at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS hardware. 

Who Should Consider OCI + SoftNAS?

This joint solution is ideal for: 

• Enterprises modernizing file storage for legacy apps while migrating to OCI. 
• Media and entertainment companies requiring scalable file shares for video rendering or archival. 
• Energy and engineering firms needing high-throughput NFS access for simulation workloads. 
• Healthcare and financial services organizations seeking secure, compliant, multi-region storage. 

Whether you’re consolidating data centers, expanding to the cloud, or building new SaaS offerings, deploying SoftNAS on Oracle Cloud provides the agility, performance, and reliability needed for modern enterprise IT. 

Conclusion: The Power of Oracle and Buurst Together 

The partnership between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Buurst’s SoftNAS brings together the best of both worlds: OCI’s secure, scalable infrastructure and Buurst’s protocol-rich, performance-optimized storage platform. 

By deploying SoftNAS through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, organizations gain a streamlined path to modern file storage, hybrid-cloud flexibility, and enterprise-grade high availability—all underpinned by Oracle’s global infrastructure and Buurst’s proven storage technology. 

Whether you’re solving for cloud migration, disaster recovery, or just simplifying your storage landscape, Oracle + SoftNAS delivers a solution that is both powerful and practical for today’s evolving IT needs