Swiss Company Casale Adopts Cloudian for Secure Storage

Cloudian, Inc., a provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, announces Ammonia Casale SA, a privately-owned Swiss company with HQ in Lugano,, has installed its HyperStore software to help accelerate innovation among its geographically dispersed scientists.

Casale developes and licenses proprietary production process technologies for ammonia, methanol, urea, melamine and syngas.

Casale’s specialized scientists and engineers around the world rely on Cloudian hybrid cloud storage for mass storage and real-time scientific collaboration.

“Cloudian HyperStore software is one of the most complete and reliable hybrid cloud storage platforms available,” said Riccardo Donati, head of IT, Casale. “Not only did we achieve all our business objectives with Cloudian, we got a robust hybrid cloud based on an object storage infrastructure that is 100% S3-compatible. We can access all available S3 applications and store our data on-premises or in the cloud–all behind our firewall.“

Casale deployed HyperStore when it became clear its legacy storage system could not provide the scalability, management controls, and global collaboration efficiencies that the technology-savvy business required. It was the obvious choice because of its secure and easy-to-use hybrid cloud storage features, including: on-premises data repository, automated data tiering to S3 clouds, unlimited scale across multiple data centers, remote user access, mirrored data protection and redundancy via Veeam data protection software.

HyperStore integrated across Casale’s existing hardware and its virtualized VMware-based data centers. The project was spearheaded by BCLOUD, Srl, Cloudian technical competence center and distributer in EMEA. Based in Milan, Italy, BCLOUD supported Casale in all phases of the project, from initial architecture design, to installation, deployment and training.

“To nimbly and economically manage data across geographies is mission critical for global research and manufacturing organizations like Casale,” said Jon Ash, VP of worldwide sales, Cloudian. “HyperStore is the perfect storage solution for Casale, providing straightforward data sharing features and the ability to scale capacity as demand grows, thereby helping to accelerate their scientific discovery.“