Why Cloudian Object Storage is the Ideal Target for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Posted by Eric Sanschagrin on January 14, 2021

Today, enterprises have multiple choices when it comes to deploying data protection solutions for their mission-critical data and applications in data centers and the public cloud. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in combination with Cloudian’s fully S3-compatible HyperStore object storage offers a simple, scalable, reliable and cost-effective solution to protect such workloads. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a modern data protection solution that provides recovery, replication, retention, and reuse for VMs, databases, applications, file systems, SaaS workloads, containers and cloud applications such as Office 365.

Cloudian Chosen for Osaka University’s New High Performance Computing Project
Posted by Jon Toor on January 5, 2021

Osaka University and NEC have announced that Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage will be used in a new cloud-linked HPC and high-performance data analysis supercomputer system at the university. This is the latest example of customers adopting Cloudian to help them manage, protect, and extract value from their big data, capitalizing on HyperStore’s limitless scalability, cost-effectiveness, fully native S3 compatibility and industry-leading security.

5 Must-Haves in Enterprise Data Storage for Security and Compliance Needs
Posted by Siddharth Agrawal on December 23, 2020

Data security is complicated. Compliance with security regulations has never been more important than it is today. It takes a lot of work to ensure your organization has a solid security program in place. How can you ensure you’re doing everything you can to protect your organization’s data? Here are the 5 things to keep in mind when picking a bulletproof enterprise data storage solution that not only satisfies the compliance requirements but also allows self-governance.

Do You Know Where Your Metadata Is? You Should.
Posted by Henry Golas on December 1, 2020

There is a lot of talk in object storage about separating metadata from user data. How metadata is stored makes a critical difference in the success of your storage project. When you understand the benefits of a dedicated metadata store, you quickly realize why Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage platform has one.

Cloudian and VMware Solution Update
Posted by Neil Stobart on November 23, 2020

In today’s modern IT departments everywhere, IT managers are using IT infrastructure services from both public and private cloud platforms. IT managers have figured out which workloads operate best on internal or external platforms and have settled into a hybrid cloud strategy, but ultimately public cloud services are a separate “island” of resources to manage and interaction between public and private cloud services have been limited to tiering and DR type services.

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.

Reducing Cybersecurity Insurance Risk while Protecting Data with Cloudian Secure Storage
Posted by Grant Jacobson on October 22, 2020

Most organizations’ cybersecurity defense strategies cover just their network and firewall.  But it’s your data that is the hacker’s ultimate prize. Have you focused your defenses mostly on keeping hackers from getting in the door only to leave the very thing he is trying to steal under-protected?  Read on for a checklist of security features you should look for to be sure you have a hardened data storage and protection solution.

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.

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