Claranet-Backed Company Lunacloud Selected Cloudian Software

Cloudian, Inc., in S3 compatible cloud storage software, announced that Lunacloud, an European pure-play cloud services provider, has selected Cloudian software to power its cloud storage service, marking Cloudian’s entry into the European cloud market.

According to GIgaOm, the WW cloud market is expected to climb 126.4% from now through 2014, with the federated cloud market in Europe alone seeing 300% growth.

Cloudian is for enterprises and service providers looking to offer Amazon S3-compatible Storage as a Service (StaaS) and/or provide secondary storage systems for their cloud compute platforms, such as Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, or OpenStack. The company recently released the free Cloudian Community Edition, which will support up to 100TB of useable storage and offer forum support, opening up the scalability, reliability and power of cloud object storage to anyone building an Amazon S3-compatible cloud, be it public, private or hybrid.

To download The Community Edition (registration needed)

Lunacloud is backed by Claranet, one of Europe’s largest MSPs, with more than 2,500 customers across Europe. Lunacloud is a progressive, pure play public cloud company that is focused on delivering reliable, elastic and low cost cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), on which companies can run their OSs and applications or store data. Like Lunacloud’s services, Cloudian is built upon the idea that the cloud should be accessible to all companies via affordable, commodity hardware-based solutions. This gave Lunacloud a low-cost implementation while also allowing the company to take advantage of Cloudian’s other differentiators, including its scalable object store and Amazon S3 compatibility.  

"Not only does Cloudian share our same goal of bringing affordable, reliable and scalable cloud solutions to companies of all sizes, it also shares our commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction," said Antonio Miguel Ferreira, Lunacloud co-founder and CEO. "The team was extremely responsive during our implementation and remains a true partner in working together to bring new cloud solutions to our growing joint customer base. We look forward to building superior solutions around Cloudian in the years to come."

Cloudian is sponsoring and will be exhibiting at Citrix Synergy2012 in Barcelona October 16-20.

"We are pleased to bring the Cloudian solution to the European marketplace, especially with a progressive partner such as Lunacloud," said Giorgio Propersi, Cloudian GM, Americas and EMEA. "Together, we are helping companies of all sizes and types take advantage of powerful cloud storage via affordable hardware and scalable solutions. We look forward to expanding our service across Europe together."

Cloudian’s customers include Vodafone, Nextel, NTT, SoftBank, Nifty, and Lunacloud.