euroNAS, a file storage solution from Europe

euroNAS GmbH, a privately owned European software company, joined the recent IT Press Tour organized last week in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The firm was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Munich, specializing in enterprise storage, high availability, and virtualization solutions. With development roots in Europe and a team drawn from major IT vendors, euroNAS positions itself as an experienced yet agile alternative to large enterprise storage and virtualization providers. Its core vision is to make advanced storage and virtualization technologies simple, reliable, and affordable for organizations of all sizes.

At the heart of euroNAS’ strategy is the removal of traditional barriers in enterprise IT. The company addresses common market pain points such as excessive complexity, hardware vendor lock-in, high licensing costs, lack of built-in high availability, and poor support for small and mid-sized organizations. euroNAS solutions are designed to run on standard x86 hardware, allowing customers to choose, reuse, or upgrade infrastructure freely while maintaining enterprise-grade functionality. All platforms are managed through a unified, web-based graphical interface, eliminating the need for deep Linux or command-line expertise.

The product portfolio spans storage, clustering, scale-out architectures, and virtualization. euroNAS Premium delivers high-performance, multi-protocol storage supporting file, block, and advanced interfaces such as NVMe-oF and Fibre Channel, with optional ZFS features for snapshots, compression, and data integrity. euroNAS HA Cluster provides enterprise-grade failover with either mirrored configurations for site separation or multi-head shared-storage setups based on ZFS, ensuring continuous availability for business-critical workloads. For large-scale environments, eEKAS offers a simplified, GUI-driven Ceph implementation, enabling scalable file, block, and object storage without the operational complexity typically associated with Ceph.

A central pillar of the presentation is eEVOS, euroNAS’ hyper-converged virtualization platform. eEVOS combines virtualization, storage, and backup in a single system, positioning itself as a cost-effective alternative to VMware, Hyper-V, and complex open-source stacks. It includes live migration, high availability, integrated backup and recovery, granular resource controls, and Ceph-based distributed storage as a vSAN alternative—all managed from one interface and supported by a single vendor.

Real-world implementations highlight the flexibility of the portfolio, ranging from high-availability installations at motorsport facilities, industrial 24/7 environments replacing VMware vSAN, multi-node clusters with shared storage, and petabyte-scale Ceph archives built with partners such as Seagate. Additional use cases include backup servers with tape integration for long-term archiving in academic environments.

The presentation concludes with competitive positioning and business strategy. euroNAS differentiates itself from large enterprise vendors through hardware independence, personal support, and partner-friendly branding options, and from open-source solutions through integrated functionality, predictable roadmaps, and professional support. A channel-focused go-to-market model, perpetual licensing with support contracts, and a clear roadmap—including multi-tenancy, network virtualization, and expanded S3 capabilities—underline euroNAS’ ambition to be a future-ready, full-stack alternative in enterprise storage and virtualization.