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

VNAs and Object Storage: Changing Patient Outcomes with Consolidated Data

While medical professionals have more medical imagery resources at their disposal than ever, the technology that generates and stores those images is often proprietary. Nurses, doctors and others who need that information must devote time to retrieving files from disparate systems – something that inevitably takes away from the time that could be spent working … Read More

How to Best Use Data, or Where It’s Stored?

Which Question’s More Important to Your Business: How to Best Use Data, or Where It’s Stored? The explosion in data – driven by new technologies like AI, ML and VR, and by a growing appreciation of the value of data in general – is not the result of the public’s swelling affection for storage technology. … Read More

How Many 9s of Protection Do You Really Need?

How critical is your data? How much can you afford to lose? Phrased that way, the answer is always “none.” But if you talk to your CFO you may discover that the question is, how much data can you afford to protect?   In any discussion of technology reliability, you’re going to hear a lot … Read More

Cloudian Cisco Validated Design (CVD)

Cloudian HyperStore is certified for the Cisco UCS® S3260 storage server and integrated UCS Manager. Read the Cisco Validated Design (CVD) document here. One of the key benefits of our HyperStore solution is full S3 API compatibility, which results in hassle-free integration and interoperability with S3-compatible applications. Additional features and benefits of Cloudian HyperStore include: Limitless … Read More

Location, Location, Location

Like in the real estate market, the value of data is determined in large part by location. You want to store data as close to its users as possible. That may be on-premises, if you have a centralized organization, or in your branch offices, retail outlets, factories or labs. But if your applications run in … Read More

Introducing Multi-Cloud Storage Management with HyperStore 7

Cloudian HyperStore 7: Evolving towards the multi-cloud Not long ago, organizations viewed the cloud as a homogeneous destination, with initiatives to rapidly migrate applications and data. Today these same IT managers are taking a more nuanced view as they seek to strike a balance with the ideal mix of cloud and on-prem processes. The cloud itself ... Read More

The World is Being Changed by Camera Data & Object Storage

Impactful Imaging: How the World is Being Changed by Camera Data and Object Storage Last month, Cloudian and Axis, the market leader in network video, announced a partnership that will allow the data captured by Axis’ network cameras to be saved directly to Cloudian’s HyperStore via the internet for economical archiving. That means that even … Read More

One Man’s Buying Journey to the Dark Side and Back

It’s the classic IT question: Do I stick with the incumbent vendor, or look at the alternatives? Here’s a story of one IT manager’s 2 1/2 year-long journey to hell and back. Since this is the Cloudian blog, you can guess the ending, but it’s a fun read provided by Cloudian partner, SymStor. The IT … Read More