Vendor-Agnostic Data Management for the Multi-Storage Enterprise
Most organisations manage unstructured data with the tools their storage vendors provide. NetApp ships its own management suite. Dell ships theirs. Meanwhile, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud each offer their own dashboards and cost explorers. As a result, teams end up with a fragmented picture of their data estate — with no single view of what they have, what it costs, or where the waste sits.
CloudSoda was built to fix this.
One Platform Across All Storage Vendors
CloudSoda is a vendor-agnostic data management platform that connects to any combination of on-premises filesystems and cloud object storage. Specifically, it supports NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerScale, AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi and Backblaze B2 — and it indexes, analyses and manages all of them from one place.
Because of this approach, you avoid lock-in to any storage vendor’s tooling. There are no proprietary agents that only work with one manufacturer’s hardware. Instead, your data sits where it sits, and CloudSoda works across all of it.
A Single Pane of Glass for All Unstructured Data
Typically, teams switch between vendor dashboards to piece together a picture of their storage estate. This process is slow, error-prone and fundamentally incomplete. In contrast, CloudSoda delivers a unified view across every filesystem, bucket and archive in your environment.
As a result, you can search across billions of files instantly. You can also see storage consumption, file age distribution, access patterns and ownership — regardless of whether the data lives on NAS in your data centre or in S3 Glacier on the other side of the world.
Proactive Data Management, Not Reactive Fire-Fighting
Traditional storage management is reactive. First, storage fills up. Then, someone raises a ticket. Finally, IT scrambles to free capacity or buy more. However, CloudSoda turns this cycle on its head by making data management proactive.
For example, automated policies move, tier and archive data based on age, access patterns and cost thresholds. Consequently, cold data gets pushed to cheaper tiers before your production storage hits capacity. Similarly, finished projects get archived on schedule — not when someone remembers to do it six months later.
Find ROT Data and Optimise Total Cost of Ownership
Redundant, obsolete and trivial data typically accounts for 20–40% of most enterprise storage estates. In other words, that represents wasted capacity you pay to store, back up and manage every single month.
CloudSoda surfaces this ROT data across your entire multi-vendor environment. For instance, it finds duplicates scattered across NAS and cloud, temporary files that became permanent, and archive footage sitting on expensive hot storage for three years because nobody moved it. As a result, customers typically identify 20% or more in savings within the first scan.
Negotiate from a Position of Strength
Currently, most organisations renew storage contracts and cloud commitments without knowing their true cost per TB, their actual utilisation rates, or what a migration to an alternative vendor would involve.
CloudSoda changes this by giving you the facts. You get real usage data across every storage platform, true cost per TB including egress, API calls and retrieval fees, and concrete migration cost modelling that shows exactly what it would cost to move workloads between vendors.
Therefore, you walk into your next vendor renewal or cloud contract negotiation with all the data. Ultimately, this means you buy savvy, not blind.