Federal Hill Solutions Deploys Lenovo Appliance Powered by Cloudian

Cloudian, Inc., in hybrid cloud object storage systems, announced that Federal Hill Solutions (FHS) has implemented a Lenovo DX8200C object storage appliance powered by Cloudian as the primary storage solution for its managed backup service.

FHS is an IT solutions and MSP that offers managed infrastructure, cloud and security services. Customers turn to FHS to address the challenges of data growth with a cloud-based solution that offers the cost predictability of a fixed-price service model.

“Our storage customers know the pain of runaway access charges. We give them a simple, predictable cost model that includes full white glove services plus the flexibility to scale capacity on demand,” said Federal Hill CMO Marc Winter. “Lenovo/Cloudian’s cost-effective, scale-out architecture and limitless capacity allows us to offer a zero-access-charge service so our customers know what to expect every month.“

FHS needed a way to offer customers a public cloud alternative that is technically comparable with public cloud solutions, at a cost-point that would support the company’s unique billing model. The solution also needed to be multi-tenant S3-compatible.

“We looked at three different S3-enabled products,” said Arthur Olshansky, Federal Hill CTO. “Only the Lenovo/Cloudian solution offered the full feature set we needed, including multi-tenancy and QoS controls. Best of all, with Cloudian we’ve seen zero S3 interoperability issues, so we get great up-time and satisfied customers.“

Cloudian software is built on a 100% native S3 architecture, and delivers guaranteed interoperability with S3-enabled applications. For FHS, this means trouble-free integration with the backup solutions in its portfolio, such as Rubrik, Commvault, Veritas and Cloudberry.

The DX8200C powered by Cloudian is part of the portfolio of Lenovo systems. The solution incorporates reliability, security, energy efficiency and performance for business-critical applications and cloud deployments.

“The Lenovo/Cloudian solution provides FHS the ability to support many different customer scenarios and workloads as they continue to grow,” said Jon Toor, Cloudian’s CMO. “It also gives them the flexibility to offer fully private cloud or hybrid cloud solutions, with seamlessly scalable capacity.”

“With the Lenovo/Cloudian solution, FHS customers can grow their storage on demand, rather than ahead of demand,” said Cliff Gumkowski, VP, North America DCG sales, Lenovo, “And they have the ability to develop their infrastructures with S3 ecosystem applications.“