The Common Foundations of Kubernetes and Object Storage
Posted by Gary Ogasawara on November 11, 2020

Reading Brendan Burns’ The History of Kubernetes & the Community Behind It, I was struck by the common technical foundations of Kubernetes and object storage.  Burns lists Kubernetes’ “basic feature set” as an orchestrator to deploy and manage containers as (1) Replication to deploy multiple instances of an application; (2) Load balancing and service discovery to route traffic to these replicated containers; (3) Basic health checking and repair to ensure a self-healing system; (4) Scheduling to group many machines into a single pool and distribute work to them.

Tail of the Tape
Posted by David Phillips on November 2, 2020

Data storage on magnetic tape media has a long history that extends back to the earliest days of digital computing in the last century. Even with the great advancements made across all areas of computing and data processing in recent decades, traditional LTO tape still provides a valuable role as an inexpensive storage medium that can retain data for long periods with little or no power input. As such, many organizations still employ data tape as one part of their total data protection plan, which is diversified across multiple technologies.

Ransomware Protection: Immutable Data Storage
Posted by Neil Stobart on October 6, 2020

Attacks can strike even the best-prepared, making it essential to mitigate the effects of a successful breach. In this webinar, we discuss how the cyber-attacks work and what are the key needs that are crucial to combat these challenges.

“The Sum of the Parts is Greater Than the Whole” – when it comes to Object Storage
Posted by Christopher Cambridge on September 23, 2020

At Cloudian, we often tell customers that the secret to maximum performance is parallelism or multi-threading. The reality is that a single TCP stream to an S3 object storage system cannot take full advantage of the available bandwidth between the client and the Hyperstore cluster. While a Hyperstore cluster is capable of efficiently handling a large number of simultaneous uploads, a single upload on its own is far from optimal. In some workflows, it is possible to send multiple objects simultaneously; however, in many instances, users still need a way to optimize the performance of a single file upload or outgoing data stream.

New Flash-optimized HyperStore Delivers 3X Savings, Pure and Simple
Posted by Jon Toor on September 9, 2020

Flash storage delivers great performance, but it’s expensive. Cloudian now offers an S3-compatible, all-flash solution that cuts cost by 2/3 vs other all-flash storage solutions. Choose from software-defined-storage or pre-configured appliances. Either way, it’s flash storage you can afford.

Easily provision S3 buckets on HyperStore with Kubernetes
Posted by Simon Johnson on August 28, 2020

One of the key features of Kubernetes is the ability to dynamically scale your pods to the workload demand.  These Pods are often self contained micro-services that have a specific job to do.  But what if you want equally convenient access to similarly isolated storage?  That’s just the problem the recently released Cloudian S3 Operator aims to solve!

Free 50TB Cloud Storage Starter Kit to Help Boost Revenue
Posted by Grant Jacobson on August 26, 2020

Cloudian is strengthening its partnership with VMware Cloud Providers with a free offer of a 50TB Cloud Storage starter kit that makes it easy to expand their businesses and start generating revenue with new Cloudian storage-based cloud services. Unlike most limited “free trial” offers, this is a full-featured, supported product, valid for an entire year. This exciting offer is exclusively for VMware Cloud Providers.

Introducing our New Ransomware Protection Solution for Commvault Environments
Posted by Grant Jacobson on August 5, 2020

Did you know that cyberattacks are one of the Top 10 most-likely global risks according to The World Economic Forum*?  This includes ransomware attacks which are accelerating in frequency.  Cyberhackers are increasingly targeting an organization’s backup data and holding this data hostage in exchange for a ransom payment.  Ransomware attacks work by encrypting the user’s data, rendering it useless with an aim to harm the business.  Organizations that are attacked and lose access to both primary and backup data stores have had to shut down, unable to operate. News of ransomware attacks also adversely impact organizations’ brand and reputation.

HyperIQ v1.1 is here!
Posted by Siddharth Agrawal on August 3, 2020

Last month, we announced the launch of Cloudian HyperIQ™, an observability tool for visibility and analysis of your Cloudian storage infrastructure. The reception has been great! In the last 6 weeks, we have worked extremely hard to roll out the features that we couldn’t include in v1.0. Here are 3 reasons why you should upgrade to v1.1.

MythBusters: Ransomware Protection Edition
Posted by Amit Rawlani on July 30, 2020

This blog addresses the topic of the year and, frankly, one that will be with us for the foreseeable future: ransomware protection. Specifically, we will look at some of the misconceptions and myths regarding ransomware protection solutions and how IT departments around the world are implementing such solutions.

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