Oracle North American Cloud Engineering

SoftNAS by Buurst is a software-defined NAS (network attached storage) solution optimized for high-performance and scalable file storage across public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Supported Environments:

• Clouds: AWS, Azure, OCI (Oracle), VMware

• Protocols: NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI

• Use Cases: Lift & Shift migrations, hybrid cloud, legacy app modernization

Key Features:

• High availability with automatic failover and replication

• Security: Encryption, Active Directory integration, firewall controls

• Performance Tiers via OCI Block Volume support

Benefits & Use Cases

SoftNAS acts as a software-defined alternative to Oracle File Storage—supporting enterprise needs at lower pricing levels and higher flexibility.

Benefits:
Accelerated Workloads: Great for databases, file sharing, and media processing

Scalable Architecture: Grows with your business needs

Simplified Deployment: Available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace, supports OCVS deployments

Optimized Resource Utilization: Reduces waste and overprovisioning

Lower IT Costs: Reduces need for on-prem hardware

Global Reach: Available across Oracle’s regional data centers

Example Use Case:
A customer can deploy SoftNAS on OCI to enable SMB/CIFS file shares integrated with Active Directory—filling the gap for native Windows File Share, which OCI doesn’t support directly.

High-Level Architecture

Demo Availability

SoftNAS demos are available upon request for Oracle Sales or Engineering teams.

Demo capabilities include:

• High availability across Oracle Availability Domains

• Multi-protocol support (NFS, SMB, iSCSI)

• Data replication across regions and even other cloud providers (for disaster recovery

Cost Management & Control

SoftNAS helps Oracle customers take control of storage spend:

• Performance-based pricing model

• Pay only for what you use (not capacity-based)

• Cost-saving features reduce expenses by up to 50%

Key Cost Features:

• Transparent pricing by performance level

• Avoid overprovisioning

• Enhances Oracle Block Storage with better price/performance

 Performance-Based Pricing Tiers

Customers can dynamically scale up or down based on workload needs.