Cloudian Customer Receives Commvault Innovation Award for Data Protection with Object Storage A Cloudian customer, Schuberg Philis, has been recognized by Commvault for their innovation in a data protection deployment with Cloudian object storage. Several aspects of this award-winning solution illustrate advancements that make backup a very exciting topic right now: Object storage as a … Read More
You know the challenges of the backup process. Veritas and Commvault are good products, but backup is still a chore. Your three choices for a backup target all have challenges: Tape is troublesome, disk is expensive, and backup to the cloud is slow.
Internet Unie, a service provider in the Netherlands, has recently deployed an innovative hybrid cloud service, combining Cloudian object storage in their data center together with Amazon S3 storage. The new service allows their colocation customers to employ local S3 storage in their data center, with additional capacity available in the AWS public cloud. Why … Read More
How to Get Started With Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud holds significant promise: unprecedented scalability, the flexibility to keep data and applications where you need them, and it’s more cost-effective than public or private cloud alone. There’s also a lot of hype around it, so, it’s hard to know where to start with hybrid cloud. We’ll … Read More
AWS re:Invent was a fantastic show this year. The show has seen phenomenal growth, with over 32,000 attendees, up from 18,000 attendees last year. Many visitors were looking for solutions to let them integrate their on-premises operations with the cloud. By adopting a hybrid cloud storage approach, they would be able to capitalize on the … Read More
You’ve probably heard the term hybrid cloud, but what is it, and what can it do for you? It’s a particularly hot topic now because public cloud storage is growing in popularity. As it should be. Public cloud is inexpensive and solves real storage problems. But public cloud is not for everyone and not for … Read More
Are you weighing the benefits of cloud storage versus on-premises storage? If so, the right answer might be to use both–and not just in parallel, but in an integrated way. Hybrid cloud is a storage environment that uses a mix of on-premises and public cloud services with data mobility between the two platforms. IT professionals are now seeing … Read More
The enterprise storage industry is going through a massive transformation, and over the last several years I’ve had the good fortune of being on the front lines. As founding CEO of Nexenta, I helped that company disrupt the storage industry by creating and leading the open storage market. These days I’m having a blast as … Read More
Cloudian Integrates with Google Cloud Platform’s New Archival Storage Service Today Cloudian is part of the launch of Google Cloud Platform’s new long-term archive service, Google Cloud Storage Coldline. The new service is intended for companies looking for long-term data retention. Coldline is highly available (99% availability SLA) and has low latency, making it easy … Read More
It’s no surprise that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dominant force when it comes to the public cloud – it’s a $10B a year business, with nearly 10% of Amazon’s Q2 net sales attributed to AWS. While AWS has been touting public cloud since its inception, only recently has it started to acknowledge the … Read More
