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In the dynamic realm of HR management, an industry leader sought an S3-compatible object storage solution to serve as a Veeam backup target for their critical data. Considering storage options from NetApp, Minio, and Hitachi, a seasoned storage buyer with a background at a major storage company took the reins of the decision-making process. After … Read More

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