Verizon Adopts Amplidata Himalaya Storage Architecture

Amplidata NV and Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Inc. announce that Amplidata’s new Himalaya storage architecture now provides Verizon cloud Storage with distributed object management and global file accessibility.

Verizon Cloud Storage is object storage designed for enterprise cloud workloads to store and retrieve large and diverse data sets.

Himalaya architecture provides a new framework for massively calable storage, designed to address demanding cloud applications and provide service-level flexibility for businesses looking to optimize their cloud resources. With Himalaya, customers can store and manage zettabytes of data and trillions of stored objects, representing a geometric leap in scale that anticipates rapid growth in customers’ appetite for durable and available storage.

“Verizon understands the needs of its diverse enterprise customers, and laid out the demands for a storage architecture that supports its vision of a complete enterprise cloud offering,” said Mike Wall, CEO, Amplidata. “Himalaya is the architecture that brings that vision to life and helps Verizon renew its leadership as the cloud provider for enterprises large and small.“

Verizon creates enterprise services that allow large companies and organizations to tap into the power of the cloud. Verizon Cloud Storage, first announced in October 2013 and currently in beta, is an object-addressable, multi-tenant storage platform providing safe, durable, reliable and cost-effective storage accessible from anywhere on the web. Himalaya is a component of Verizon Cloud Storage that manages the distributed storage process to help reduce latency.

“The proliferation of data has created enterprise demand for cloud-based object storage,” said John Considine, CTO, Verizon Terremark. “Amplidata’s storage technology was built with enterprise clients in mind – providing the speed, security and scalability large organizations need. This is why we chose Himalaya as the core for our object store.”