Cloudian

Cloudian, Inc.
Private
Industry Information technology, data storage
Founded 2011
Headquarters San Mateo, California, United States
Key people
 Michael Tso (CEO and co-founder)
Hiroshi Ohta (President and co-founder)
Jon Toor (CMO)
Shinya Motohashi (COO)
Gary Ogasawara (VP of Engineering)
Jon Ash (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Products Cloudian HyperStore, Lenovo DX8200C Powered by Cloudian, HyperStore FL 3000, HyperStore 1500, HyperStore Connect for Files
Number of employees
 90+
Website www.cloudian.com

Cloudian, Inc. (formerly known as Gemini Mobile Technologies) is a US enterprise data storage company headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China.[1] It produces Amazon S3-compatible object storage software and pre-configured hardware appliances.[2]

History

Cloudian was launched in 2011 by CEO Michael Tso [3] and President Hiroshi Ohta.[4] In 2012, Cloudian signed a deal with Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) to power its Biz Hosting Cloudn Object Storage service.[5]

Since then, other Cloudian customers include @nifty,[6] Casale, Tyco, and ScaleMatrix.[7]

In 2014, Cloudian raised $24 million from investors including INCJ, Fidelity Growth Partners Japan, Intel Capital, and Goldman Sachs.[8][9] Cloudian raised an additional $41 million in October 2016 from both existing investors and four new investors: Lenovo, City National Bank, Epsilon Venture Partners, and DVP Investment.[10][11]

Cloudian announced a partnership with Lenovo in June 2016 to sell an appliance in Lenovo's StorSelect line: the DX8200C powered by Cloudian.[12] In August 2016, Cloudian's HyperStore software was made available via the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.[13][14]

Products

Cloudian HyperStore Operating Environment

Cloudian's HyperStore Operating Environment software provides enterprise object storage. The software has native Amazon S3 support,[15] and data can be tiered to Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, or S3 endpoints such as tape libraries.[16]

HyperStore supports logical storage policies that can be configured with replication or erasure coding.[17] Other features include multi-tenancy and Quality of Service options to set control permissions and usage rate limits [18] and using Hadoop for analytics.[2][19]

In April 2016, Cloudian released HyperStore 6.0, which added built-in storage analytics, object GPS, and proactive repair.[20]

The HyperStore software is available as a hybrid cloud storage service via AWS Marketplace, with usage details and billing coming directly from AWS.[13][21]

Lenovo DX8200C Powered by Cloudian

The Lenovo DX8200C Powered by Cloudian consists of Cloudian HyperStore software on Lenovo hardware. The appliance size is 2U and starts with three nodes, with each node supporting up to 112 TB of internal storage.[22]

Lenovo will provide tier 1 and tier 2 support for the produce, with tier 3 support escalated to Cloudian.[12][23]

HyperStore FL3000

The ‘Forever Live’ FL3000 is a storage appliance that features eight storage nodes in 3U. Each node has room for 16 480 GB MLC flash drives.[2][21] Storage is handled primarily via 4U expansion shelves with SATA disks (up to 8 TB each).[24]

HyperStore 1500 Appliance

The HyperStore 1500 is a 1U storage appliance that can hold up to twelve 3.5" hard drives and four hot swappable 2.5" SSDs. The 1500 can store anywhere from 24TB to 96 TB of data.[25]

HyperStore Connect for Files

Cloudian HyperStore Connect for Files (HCF) is a global file access product with native support for SMB, NFS, and FTP.[26] HCF includes multi-site file locking, data deduplication, and compression.[27]

Awards

2016 - Modern Infrastructure "Impact" Award [28]

2016 - Storage Awards Cloud Product of the Year [29]

2016 - Computer Technology Review "MVP" Award [30]

2016 - DCS Awards Data Centre Cloud Storage Product of the Year - Finalist [31]

2016 - Computable Awards Software of the Year - Finalist [32]

2016 - SVC Awards "Cloud Project of the Year" and "Software Defined/Object Storage Product of the Year" - Finalist [33]

2015 - TMC Cloud Computing Product of the Year [34]

2015 - Computer Technology Review "MVP" Award [35]

2015 - Storage Awards "One to Watch" - Runner-up [36]

2015 - Computer Weekly European User Awards "Best Storage Product of the Year" - Finalist [37]

2014 - SearchStorage Product of the Year - Finalist [38]

References

  1. ↑ "Cloudian Polishes Its S3-Compatible Cloud Storage | Containers Expo Blog". virtualization.sys-con.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  2. 1 2 3 "Cloudian HyperStore Review | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews". www.storagereview.com. 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  3. ↑ "Michael Tso Cloudian Chief Executive Officer Profile". www.venturedeal.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  4. ↑ "Hiroshi Ohta Cloudian President Profile". www.venturedeal.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  5. ↑ "Cloudian's Cloud Storage Software Powering NTT's Cloud Storage in Japan, USA - Web Host Industry Review". Web Host Industry Review. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  6. ↑ "StorageNewsletter » Nifty Chooses Gemini's Cloudian". www.storagenewsletter.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  7. ↑ "The Industry Leader in Smart Data Storage Solutions: Cloudian Inc.". The Silicon Review. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  8. ↑ Shieber, Jonathan. "[Updated] Cloudian Raises $24 Million Because Not Everything Needs To Live In "The Cloud"". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  9. ↑ Kepes, Ben. "Cloudian Wins Big Funding -- The New Storage Players To The Fore". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  10. ↑ "Cloudian Raises $41M to Fuel Rapid Adoption of Hybrid Cloud Object Storage Platform". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  11. ↑ Emc; Netapp; Seagate; Hp; Dell; NetApp gives Data Fabric a little nip, tuck and some filler; objects, HyperStore gets Coldline for tired old; months, Cisco: This $200k UCS S.-Series is cheaper than AWS S3 after 13. "Cloudian passes begging bowl round VCs to net $41m for object storage dev pool". Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  12. 1 2 Kovar, Joseph F. "Lenovo, Cloudian Partner On Amazon S3-Compatible Object Storage Appliance". CRN. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  13. 1 2 "Cloudian and AWS team up for on-premise cloud storage - Storage Soup". searchstorage.techtarget.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  14. ↑ "Cloudian Object Storage Now in AWS Marketplace -- AWSInsider". AWSInsider. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  15. ↑ "Cloudian's better at Amazon S3 than anyone else, apparently". Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  16. ↑ "Cloudian to Extend Tiering Capabilities to Amazon's S3 and Glacier | Data Center Knowledge". Data Center Knowledge. 2014-07-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  17. ↑ "Cloudian boosts object storage HyperStore compliance features". ComputerWeekly. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  18. ↑ "Amazon S3 Cloud Storage Delivered as YOUR Service". www.storage-switzerland.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  19. ↑ "Cloudian HyperStore Integrates With Hadoop For In-Place Big Data Analytics". Tom's IT Pro. 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  20. ↑ "Cloudian Announces HyperStore 6.0". Tom's IT Pro. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  21. 1 2 "Cloudian makes HyperStore object storage available from AWS". ComputerWeekly. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  22. ↑ "Lenovo Storage DX8200C > Lenovo Press". lenovopress.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  23. ↑ "Lenovo embiggens storage offerings with Cloudian and Nexenta". Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  24. ↑ "Cloudian's Samurai S3-clad object storage warriors". Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  25. ↑ "Cloudian Announces HyperStore 1500". Tom's IT Pro. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  26. ↑ "Cloudian enhances its software defined cloud storage, adds support for NFS, SMB, FTP « Storage Bytes Now". Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  27. ↑ Kelly, Jim. "One does not simply do scalable, high availability NAS". Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  28. ↑ "Cloudian HyperStore flashes its compatibility - Impact Awards honor best IT products, companies of 2016". searchdatacenter.techtarget.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  29. ↑ "Storage Awards". www.storagemagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  30. ↑ "WWPI – Covering the best in IT since 1980 » Blog Archive » Cloudian HyperStore software and appliances". wwpi.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  31. ↑ "DCS Awards". www.dcsawards.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  32. ↑ "Computable start stemproces Awards 2016". www.channelweb.nl. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  33. ↑ "SVC Awards". www.svcawards.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  34. ↑ "Winners of the 2015 Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award Announced". cloud-computing.tmcnet.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  35. ↑ "WWPI – Covering the best in IT since 1980 » 2015 MVP Award Winners". wwpi.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  36. ↑ "Storage Awards". www.storagemagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  37. ↑ "Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 shortlist". ComputerWeekly. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  38. ↑ "Storage system software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists". SearchStorage. Retrieved 2016-10-12.

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