Cloudian Technology Partner Program

Cloudian, Inc., in enterprise object storage systems, launched its data management partners program.

The program combines data management products with Cloudian’s infinitely scalable storage to offer tested and solutions that enable enterprises to address current and future unstructured data growth challenges.

Charter members of the program include Rubrik, Inc., Komprise, Inc., Evolphin Software, and Ctera Networks Ltd.

“With unstructured data growing more than 50% each year, IT managers need effortlessly scalable solutions rather than temporary fixes. This new partner ecosystem delivers proven solutions for biggest capacity challenges, such as data protection, file management, and media archiving,” said Michael Tso, CEO and co-founder, Cloudian. “Our customers can easily deploy these solutions to immediately simplify their infrastructure and save 70% on capacity costs, while delivering a long-term scalable solution for their data management needs.“

According to Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2017 report, “Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders have identified ‘managing data growth to support business demands’ as the top storage concern for 2017.“

Cloudian’s data management partners program addresses data centre capacity storage challenges with tested solutions that consolidate multiple data silos into a single, infinitely scalable environment. The program’s focus is to simplify data centre operations and reduce costs.

Its charter program members address various data use cases including: 

• Data protection: Rubrik and Cloudian together unify and automate backup, instant recovery, replication, indexed search, archival, compliance, and copy data management into a single scale-out fabric across the data centre and public cloud.
• Data lifecycle management: Komprise and Cloudian tackle a big challenges in the data centre industry, unstructured data lifecycle management, with solutions that offload non-critical data that is typically 70%+ of the footprint from costly tier-1 NAS to a limitless scalable storage pool.
• Media active archiving: Evolphin and Cloudian help media professionals address capacity-intensive formats (e.g., 4k, 8k, VR/360) with the performance to handle time-pressed workflows.
• File synch and share: Ctera and Cloudian provide enterprises with tools for collaboration in capacity-rich environments.

George Crump, senior analyst, Storage Switzerland, LLC, commented: “IT managers know the benefits of object storage solutions like Cloudian’s that can cut management workloads by 90%  in capacity-intensive applications. But the question they ask is, ‘How do I get started?‘ This program makes it simple and risk-free by doing the validation up front. With this type of integration, I expect to see more enterprise users turning to object storage for their unstructured data consolidation.“

“Scalability is critical to our fast-growing business, and Rubrik and Cloudian together offer a robust and easily managed solution that immediately saves cost by reducing complexity. With it, we can deliver greater value to our customers by providing a highly-reliable and quickly scalable data protection environment,” said Rob Mackle, MD and co-founder, Assured Data Protection.

“Unstructured data management is an ongoing challenge, and the traditional solutions are simply too expensive to buy and to manage. We have found that Komprise and Cloudian together offer a seamless and scalable approach to managing files while reducing both CAPEX and OPEX,” stated Richard Tatham, GM of cloud services, Sithabile Technology Services (Pty) Ltd in South Africa.

“Enabling collaboration is an important part of our business. Ctera and Cloudian have enabled us to build a powerful and flexible set of collaboration services with instantly scalable storage to address our customer’s changing business needs,” said Antonio Giannetto, CTO and innovation strategist, ReeVo Srl.