Harness the Power of Software-Defined Infrastructure to Help Solve the Biggest Big Data Storage Challenges
With the popularity of rich media, the proliferation of mobile devices and the digitization of content, there has been an exponential growth in the amount of unstructured data that IT is managing (think medical images or large research data sets). And this growth is not slowing but increasing. This unprecedented growth is just not sustainable … Read More
What’s the Buzz with Media & Entertainment at Super Bowl City?
The hottest ticket for Media & Entertainment (M&E) this year is no doubt Super Bowl 50, hosted in Santa Clara, California in Silicon Valley this upcoming Sunday, February 7th. This year’s matchup poses new versus old…as in, the younger more dynamic Carolina Panther’s quarterback Cam Newton versus the veteran and reestablished Denver Bronco’s Peyton Manning. … Read More
S3 API & Extensions for Enterprise Object Storage
Amazon’s S3 API is the de-facto standard for object storage APIs. Having multiple service providers, software providers, and applications standardize on S3 has made it easier to interchange between them and rapidly stand up new uses for object storage. But there are different grades of S3 compatibility. Some software and solutions provide only the basic … Read More
3 Ways to Connect with Cloudian at AWS re:Invent 2015!
This is going to be an epic year at AWS re:Invent, I can already tell… Maybe it’s my first year attending the show with Cloudian and we have some awesome things going on here. We just launched our Cloudian HyperStore ‘forever live’ FL3000 series and HyperStore 5.2 software, you can learn more about it here: … Read More
Cloudian Launches HyperStore 5.2 and New High Capacity Appliances
Greetings from the Cloud! I am excited to announce that Cloudian just released HyperStore 5.2 and new high capacity appliances. Let’s talk HyperStore 5.2, an innovative release packed with features, such as new self-service storage policies, which allow enterprises to set data durability policies per application, optimizing data protection and reducing operational costs. The end-user … Read More
Cloudian HyperStore Integration with Symantec NetBackup
Starting with Symantec NetBackup 7.7, administrators will find an exciting new feature for cloud storage backup: Cloudian HyperStore®. The NetBackup Cloud Storage Connector enables the NetBackup software to back up data to and from Cloudian HyperStore straight out of the box without additional software installations or plugins. HyperStore is an option in the “Cloud Storage … Read More
Amir Chaudry describes the Cloudian HyperStore® integration with HDFS and Hadoop
HyperStore features full Apache Hadoop integration. As I mentioned earlier, enterprises can now transform big data into smart data by running Hadoop analytics on HyperStore software and appliances. This in-place analytics, with no need to offload data to other systems for Hadoop analyses, enables customers to derive meaningful business intelligence from their data quickly, efficiently … Read More
Build Scalable Storage with Lenovo and Cloudian
With the massive growth of data from the Internet of Things (IOT) to collaboration to compliance, users are demanding low-cost, flexible, easy to scale, and simple to manage data center storage solutions. Software-defined object storage delivers on these demands by capitalizing on industry standard x86 infrastructure and storage technologies to deploy more economic and … Read More
Amir Chaudry explains how Cloudian HyperStore® tiers data to the cloud
Cloudian is the first and to the best of my knowledge the only vendor in the market today that provides the unique ability of creating a single namespace over a public and private cloud providing a seamless experience to a customer. Unlike most cloud gateway solutions available today which merely act as temporary caching devices, … Read More
