Cloudian Announces Record $94M Funding: What This Means for Object Storage

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

Refining Your GDPR Strategy – Addressing User Data

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline for implementation has come and gone. Many organizations have achieved a basic level of compliance, so now is the time to dig deeper, tie up loose ends and try to simplify the process. It is also a time for organizations not directly impacted by GDPR to … Read More

How to Implement File Sharing for GDPR Compliance

Employees are going to share files. It’s an essential part of collaboration. For any project involving more than a few people, this is likely to involve a cloud-based file sharing solution. In environments requiring GDPR compliance, that can be a problem. Especially when regulations state how data can be used and where it is stored, … Read More

New Strategies to Stop Ransomware

The effort to stop ransomware is top of mind for IT managers. By one account, the number of reported ransomware incidents increased by nearly 90% year over year between 2016 and 2017, and experts are projecting continuing expansion of this threat in 2018. The good news is that new approaches employ object storage to provide additional … Read More

6 Best Practices for Object Storage Deployment

IT managers face new storage challenges as companies generate growing volumes of unstructured data. Whether it’s high-res images, backup data, or IoT-generated information, this data needs to be searchable and instantly accessible to facilitate analysis and data mining.

Cloudian Expands Exec Staff to Support Growth

Two recent additions to Cloudian’s exec staff point to the growth of object storage and Cloudian’s dedication to serving enterprise customers in this space. Fadel Hamed, VP of Customer Success The first is Fadel Hamed, who joins Cloudian as VP of Customer Success. Leading our support and technical account management teams, he will ensure that … Read More

Gartner Peer Insights Reviews for Cloudian Object Storage

Read the Gartner Peer Insights reviews for Cloudian here. Gartner Peer Insights collects verified reviews from actual end-users. To participate, users provide a detailed description of their deployment. Cloudian HyperStore surpasses its competition with: Highest object storage rating 2X more object storage reviews Gartner groups ratings into specific markets. Cloudian's market is Distributed File Systems ... Read More

Cloudian Taking Customers from NetApp, Forbes Reports

A Forbes article today reported on Cloudian's growth, noting the sea change in the market as customers move from yesterday's solution to newer alternatives. The author, Peter Cohan, notes, "The company they're building -- San Mateo, Calif.-based distributed file systems purveyor Cloudian -- says it's taking customers from Dell EMC and NetApp. Should NetApp investors ... Read More

Cloudian Adds File Storage Expertise

Cloudian Adds File Storage Expertise Through Acquisition of Pioneering Infinity Storage It’s not easy for technology companies to build great teams. The best people have lots of opportunities, and you’d better have a compelling story behind your product if you want them to join you and not one of your competitors. That reality makes Cloudian’s … Read More

Cloudian’s Joint Venture with Digital Alpha

Cloudian’s Joint Venture with Digital Alpha: an Investment in a Flexible Storage Future The on-demand era has changed expectations. In years gone by, storage required a huge amount of planning –around cost, technology issues, office real estate, and how much storage capacity to over-buy to meet needs stretching into the future. That was the past. … Read More