MythBusters: Ransomware Protection Edition

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.

European Court Ruling a Boost for Sovereign Cloud Suppliers

Last week, the BBC reported that the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a ruling that highlights the growing opportunities for sovereign cloud providers around the globe. In this ruling, the Court invalidated the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement which allowed US companies to receive personal data from the EU if they adhere to … Read More

The Right Way to Splunk with Cloudian

Amit Rawlani, Director of Solutions & Alliances, Cloudian In late 2018, Splunk introduced a feature called SmartStore, which offers enhanced storage management functionality. SmartStore allows you to move warm data buckets to S3-compatible object stores such as Cloudian HyperStore, the industry’s most S3-compatible on-prem object storage platform. Moving the data from expensive indexer storage achieves ... Read More

Cloudian Storage for Veeam Backup – Fit and Sizing

Neil Stobart, Vice President of Global System Engineering, Cloudian Veeam 9.5 Update 4 introduced S3 connectivity capabilities with the introduction of Cloud Tier. Veeam Cloud Tier enables native S3 API connectivity to the Cloudian HyperStore object storage platform for usage as an on-premises secondary backup target, providing exabyte scalability. It also enables automatic offsite backup ... Read More

Security: Cloudian Achieves FIPS 140-2 Validation

Glenn Haley, Director of Product Management, Cloudian The Need for FIPS Validation In today’s insecure IT landscape and the network-connected world, it is essential to understand how secure your storage system may be, and even more important, to have assurance on the degree of security implemented as the right choice to meet your needs.  Ransomware ... Read More

The Role Object Storage Plays With Veeam

Adam Dagnall, Cloudian SE Director, Northern Europe One of the nice things about my job is being able to look at new S3 products and services that integrate with HyperStore.  I’ve spent the last couple of weeks looking at the Veeam S3 integration and what it’s capable of. Veeam has a number of new features … Read More

Multi-tenancy in Cloud Storage

Glenn Haley, Director of Product Management, Cloudian Introduction The concept of delivering cloud services by sharing virtualized hardware infrastructure and application servers has existed for years.  Within these hosted services, multi-tenancy functionality has been a critical factor in separating software services for tenant customers while keeping costs at a level acceptable for software providers.   However, … Read More

New Storage Observability and Analytics Tool

Today is the launch of Cloudian HyperIQ™, our new native observability tool. I am extremely excited to announce this new offering, which goes beyond conventional monitoring to make Cloudian’s geo-distributed object storage systems even more intelligent. Customer-Driven Design As a product manager, it is a rare opportunity to drive a product from concept to launch. … Read More