IBM recently announced its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat. This blockbuster deal signals a sea change in cloud as IT managers broaden their view of what cloud is and how it’s most effectively deployed. With Red Hat, IBM is positioned to lead in the multi-cloud world.
Introduction Cloudian turns information into insight with a hyperscale data fabric that lets enterprise customers in data-intensive markets store, find, and protect data across the organization and around the globe. Cloudian data management solutions bring cloud technology and economics right to your data center with uncompromising data durability, intuitive management tools, and the industry’s most … Read More
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
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
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
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
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.
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
