Hybrid cloud combines cloud and on-premises computing environments to create a more efficient operating model. This post looks at what a hybrid cloud is, how it helps, and the architectures that enable seamless storage interaction between public and private clouds. According to a recent survey of VARs (conducted by William Blair and Associates), “customers are … Read More
New survey findings validate object storage growth. Analyst firm IHS Markit today released results from a survey of IT professionals showing strong uptake for object storage in data-intensive applications. Findings from this IHS Markit survey include: 56% of survey respondents indicated that they plan to increase investment in object storage Expect total storage capacity to … Read More
Cloudian and VMware now offer an integrated solution that offers a seamless experience for all vCloud Director service providers and its customers/tenants to leverage Cloudian HyperStore object storage.
We’re excited to announce Cloudian Object Storage for VMware Cloud Director, an integrated storage platform that enables VMware Cloud Providers and their customers to deploy, manage and consume S3-compatible storage within their services environment. Read the datasheet View the demo View the VMware lightboard video Read about the integration Scalable, Cost-Effective Storage for Unstructured Data … Read More
Cloudian Achieves Veeam Ready – Object Qualification Today Cloudian was honored to be among the first to receive Veeam’s new object storage certification. Called Veeam Ready – Object, this qualification gives storage administrators a worry-free, out-of-the-box integrated path to employ Cloudian object storage as a backup target for Veeam. Veeam and Cloudian have been working … Read More
Zucchetti is an Italian company that produces software, hardware and services for companies, banks, insurances, professionals and trade associations. With over 4,000 employees, Zucchetti group serves more than 160,000 clients. IDC ranks Zucchetti among the top 40 European software firms and number one in Italy. Zucchetti has employed Cloudian scale-out storage since 2012 for S3-compatible storage services and asset archiving. Zucchetti’s reasons for deploying … Read More
Record Funding Round for Object Storage Today Cloudian announced a $94M Series E funding round, bringing Cloudian’s total funding to $173M. This round is the largest ever for an object storage company, and exceeds all of Cloudian’s previous funding rounds combined. This majority came from investors new to Cloudian. Object Storage Comes of Age … Read More
In cloud storage, there are hundreds of managed service providers (MSPs) who offer enterprise-grade, S3-API storage services. Increasingly, these MSPs look to Cloudian as the supplier for their underlying object storage infrastructure. Local and regional MSPs offer their customers great value in several ways. They act as a trusted guide for large companies, and they … Read More
There’ve been a lot of discussions about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It seems to me that everyone is saying that they are Amazon S3-compatible or that they work with S3 storage. That makes me wonder, what is the best way to validate a solution or test it out to … Read More
IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) solution provides the following benefits: Supports software-defined storage environments Supports cloud data protection Easily integrates with VMware and Hyper-V Enables data protection by minimizing data loss with frequent snapshots, replication, and DR management Reduce the cost of data protection with built-in efficiencies such as source-side and target-side … Read More
