Cloudian

History

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

Since then, other Cloudian customers include @nifty, Casale, Tyco, and ScaleMatrix.

In 2014, Cloudian raised $24 million from investors including INCJ, Fidelity Growth Partners Japan, Intel Capital, and Goldman Sachs. 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.

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

Cloudian HyperStore Operating Environment

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

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

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

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

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.

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

HyperStore 4000

The HyperStore 4000 appliance has two compute nodes in a 4U enclosure. The appliance has 256GB of memory (128GB per node), and can hold 4TB, 8TB, and 10TB disk drives, for a maximum raw capacity of 700TB.

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. Storage is handled primarily via 4U expansion shelves with SATA disks (up to 8 TB each).

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.

HyperStore Connect for Files

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

Awards

2016 - Modern Infrastructure "Impact" Award

2016 - Storage Awards Cloud Product of the Year

2016 - Computer Technology Review "MVP" Award

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

2016 - Computable Awards Software of the Year - Finalist

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

2015 - TMC Cloud Computing Product of the Year

2015 - Computer Technology Review "MVP" Award

2015 - Storage Awards "One to Watch" - Runner-up

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

2014 - SearchStorage Product of the Year - Finalist