Splunk SmartStore Enables Scalable, Cost-Effective Data Lake

Splunk SmartStore and Cloudian together address two of the biggest challenges in Big Data: Cost and scalability. Today’s larger data sets and longer retention requirements drive up the cost of storage, making it harder to accommodate the needed growth within the available budget, data center footprint, and staffing. This is part of a series of … Read More

New Ransomware Protection from Veeam and Cloudian

Object Lock Provides Hardened Solution for Ransomware Ransomware strikes a business every 14 seconds, claims Cybersecurity Ventures. Business impacts can include interrupted operations, loss of revenue, impact to reputation, and of course ransom payment. Ransomware works by encrypting the user’s data, rendering the source data and backup data useless. Traditional malware defenses may prove ineffective. … Read More

S3 Object Lock — Protecting Data for Ransomware Threats and Compliance

Recently introduced by Amazon S3, Object Lock stores objects using a write-once-read-many (WORM) model.  Cloudian’s HyperStore v7.2 fully supports Object Lock, including all relevant S3 APIs and access control with permissions and bucket and IAM policies.  Application users can now use Amazon SDKs with HyperStore software or appliances deployed in their on-premises infrastructure to protect ... Read More

Cloudian Joins milCloud 2.0

Cloudian is proud to be part of milCloud 2.0, a program that allows authorized government administrators to easily “shop” for services that match their needs from a variety of commercial cloud providers. About milCloud 2.0 MilCloud describes their value succinctly: With the Department of Defense mandate to accelerate cloud adoption, defense agencies are ready to … Read More

Hybrid Cloud Storage: Everything You Need to Know

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

Survey: Object Storage Top Priority for IT Investment

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

S3-Compatible Storage for VMware Cloud Director

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

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