Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) firmware for Supermicro management controllers employed in some Cloudian storage appliances. These vulnerabilities could result in privilege escalation and execution of malicious code. The seven flaws, tracked from CVE-2023-40284 through CVE-2023-40290, range in severity from High to Critical, according to Binarly, enabling unauthenticated … Read More
Cloudian, AMD, and Micron together have delivered groundbreaking object storage performance and efficiency results. A Cloudian HyperStore 8 object storage cluster of six single CPU nodes powered by AMD EPYC™ 9454 CPUs with Micron NVMe SSDs, produced 17.7GB/s writes and 24.8GB/s reads on an industry standard benchmark. These are real world results, measured on an … Read More
A research lab within the US Department of Defense recently switched from Dell ECS to Cloudian. And they are delighted they did. Although their Dell ECS system was only 50% consumed, it was a first generation Dell ECS system that was no longer supported. Consequently, when their ECS contract expired, a transition of some kind … Read More
Cloudian recently introduced a new capability, hybrid storage policies, first introduced in Cloudian HyperStore 7.5 object storage software. This feature allows the Cloudian platform to be application aware and tune storage usage in real time to optimize performance and capacity efficiency. A customer recently capitalized on this new capability as they sought to bolster their … Read More
Two large hotel and casino chains in the US this week provided a high-profile reminder that ransomware is still very much with us. MGM Resorts, which includes several of the largest hotels in Las Vegas and across the US, was largely shut down due to a ransomware attack, with credit card transactions halted and casino … Read More
