Cloudian 2.4 Extends S3 Compatibility

Cloudian,
Inc. announced the next generation of its solution, extending its
S3 compatibility and multi-datacenter capabilities while enhancing
its data management features for the enterprise marketplace.

Cloudian helps organizations address
their storage challenges by providing software to build private or
public clouds using commodity servers. It requires minimum IT
involvement, reduces the costs of cloud deployment and
management-and, as a result, is helping make Storage-as-a-Utility a
reality.

"Although service providers and
enterprises are intrigued by the idea of moving data to the cloud for
scalability and agility, concerns over data management and protection
remain front and center," said Agatha Poon, research manager
at 451 Research. "The
ability to deliver high levels of security, systems continuity, and
usability is as important as making intuitive management tools
accessible to customers. Providing these features will give companies
such as Cloudian a competitive edge."

Cloudian 2.4 maximizes data
protection, availability and security, which are important for
enterprises looking to deploy their own private cloud or move their
data to the public cloud. For multi-datacenter deployments, Dynamic
Consistency Levels offers data protection and ensuring continuous,
uninterrupted operations in the case of network or site failures. It
protects sensitive data through encryption while also associating
expiration policies to content and auto-expiring content.

In addition, the company is extending
its S3 compatibility with its content lifecycle management and web
content support. It delivers a S3 API compliant, multi-tenant,
multi-data center cloud storage platform that enables enterprises and
service providers to deploy a scalable object storage service within
public and private clouds. The platform leverages a distributed,
peer-to-peer architecture, with no single point of failure. The
company also provides a user interface for both end user applications
as well as administrative functions, including billing, monitoring
and provisioning. The solution scales from one node up to hundreds of
nodes across multiple data centers, supporting petabytes of data, enabling
system operators to leverage heterogeneous, commodity servers for
horizontal scalability.

"Cloudian empowers
organizations to finally meet their big storage needs via a scalable,
affordable, easy-to-manage solution," said Jay Desai, VP of product Management, Cloudian. "Now, with our newest version
of Cloudian, we have made their lives even easier by adding many
unique data management features. We are pleased to bring
Storage-as-a-Utility one step closer to being a reality."

Cloudian has also opened up the
scalability, reliability and power of cloud object storage to anyone
building an S3-compatible cloud-be it public, private or hybrid-via
its free Cloudian Community Edition, which will support up to 100TB
of useable storage and offers forum support.