How Cloudian Object Storage and GPUDirect Work Together to Accelerate Data-Intensive Applications

NVIDIA GPUDirect technology and Cloudian object storage are two powerful tools that, when combined, can dramatically enhance the performance of data-intensive applications. Let’s explore how these technologies work together to drive innovation and efficiency. What is Cloudian Object Storage? Cloudian is a leading provider of scalable object storage solutions, designed to handle massive amounts of … Read More

How Cloudian Certifies Compliance with SEC, FINRA, and CFTC Recordkeeping Regulations

In today’s heavily regulated financial landscape, institutions must adhere to stringent guidelines for storing and preserving electronic records. The SEC, FINRA, and CFTC mandate that records be maintained in a non-rewriteable, non-erasable format for the entirety of their retention period. Cloudian® HyperStore®, a scalable, S3-compatible object storage platform, has recently been rigorously reevaluated by Cohasset ... Read More

Southeast Asian Ride-Sharing Platform Enhances Compliance with Cloudian

In this case study: A prominent Southeast Asian tech company, offering ride-hailing, food delivery, and financial services, serves millions of users across multiple countries. With an ever-expanding user base, the company needed a robust solution to meet stringent data sovereignty requirements while maintaining control over vast amounts of personal user data. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Company: Leading … Read More

Ten Use Cases Where Object Storage Really Stands Out

What are the use cases where object storage really stands out vs the alternative block and file storage types? In my Sales Engineering role at Cloudian, I’ve helped hundreds of customers solve their storage challenges with object storage. Here are the ten most common object storage use cases I see today, plus ten more emerging … Read More

Cloudian Integrates with AWS Mountpoint for Fast File Services

AWS Mountpoint for S3 enables direct, file-system-like access to S3-compatible storage While traditional object storage interfaces require specific S3 API calls for data access and manipulation, AWS Mountpoint simplifies this process by allowing standard Linux file operations to interact with object storage, thus bridging the gap between object storage and file-based applications. Just as important, … Read More

Unlocking Time Travel with HyperStore File Services Snapshots

In the dynamic world of data management, Cloudian continues to deliver powerful new functionality that help our customers derive more value from their Cloudian investment. One such addition to Cloudian HyperStore File Services is the Snapshot functionality, bringing a new dimension and ability to fall back in time for your file share management. What are ... Read More

Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out Storage: What’s the Difference?

In the evolving landscape of enterprise storage, the distinction between scale-up and scale-out storage architectures remains a focal point. As organizations face exponential data growth, understanding the nuances of these architectures is crucial for efficient storage management and expansion. Storage capacity is the primary benchmark for evaluating storage devices, closely followed by the ease of … Read More

Cloudian HyperIQ Observability and Analytics

Cloudian HyperIQ Observability and Analytics is a powerful extension of the Cloudian HyperStore platform, specifically designed to provide comprehensive insights and analytics into your data storage infrastructure. As organizations deal with ever-expanding volumes of data, the ability to understand, analyze, and optimize storage becomes crucial. Cloudian HyperIQ addresses this need by offering a set of ... Read More

Multicloud #6 Cross Region Replication in Multi-Cloud

This blog goes into some of the detail around using Cross Region Replication in a multi-cloud environment. Cross region replication (CRR) and Single region replication (SRR) are S3 options which allows you to protect data when the latency is too high to use storage policies, or you have a multi-region system, or when you simply ... Read More

How to Configure the Cloudian HyperBalance Load Balancer

In a clustered storage environment, where multiple storage controllers can process requests simultaneously, a load balancer can boost performance by intelligently distributing requests. In this series of videos I will walk you through the creation, configuration and the deployment of the virtual version of the Cloudian load balancer, HyperBalance. Balance is important in all things. ... Read More