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A prominent insurance provider in Germany — specializing in legal insurance for motorists, businesses, and homeowners — embarked on an IT modernization journey. Their goal was to transition from a traditional mainframe architecture to containerized applications using Kubernetes. Challenge The insurance firm’s data, predominantly comprised of legal documents, demanded a storage solution that adhered to … Read More

In the dynamic realm of HR management, an industry leader sought an S3-compatible object storage solution to serve as a Veeam backup target for their critical data. Considering storage options from NetApp, Minio, and Hitachi, a seasoned storage buyer with a background at a major storage company took the reins of the decision-making process. After … Read More

Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) firmware for Supermicro management controllers employed in some Cloudian storage appliances. These vulnerabilities could result in privilege escalation and execution of malicious code. The seven flaws, tracked from CVE-2023-40284 through CVE-2023-40290, range in severity from High to Critical, according to Binarly, enabling unauthenticated … Read More

Cloudian, AMD, and Micron together have delivered groundbreaking object storage performance and efficiency results.  A Cloudian HyperStore 8 object storage cluster of six single CPU nodes powered by AMD EPYC™ 9454 CPUs with Micron NVMe SSDs, produced 17.7GB/s writes and 24.8GB/s reads on an industry standard benchmark. These are real world results, measured on an … Read More