Exclusive Networks Middle East Adds Cloudian to Portfolio

Exclusive Networks Middle East, a cyber security and datacentre transformation VAD, has added Cloudian, Inc., in enterprise object storage systems, to its vendor portfolio.

The partnership opens up opportunities for channel partners, giving them the ability to build petabyte-scalable object storage solutions, and tap into new cloud storage revenues. It also addresses data management compliance requirements such as EU GDPR, which has recently come into force.

This pan-EMEA/APAC distribution agreement will see Exclusive Networks drive adoption of Cloudian’s petabyte-scale, object storage platform – HyperStore – in key enterprise markets via channel partners and MSPs.

“There are a growing number of enterprise customers that use public cloud storage services. Thanks to Cloudian’s HyperStore they now have the opportunity to place that storage capability in their own datacentre premises, or to host it with a local cloud service provider. This overcomes the data sovereignty issues that surround compliance measures like GDPR, and provides predictable cost and modular scalability,” said Oliver Downs, alliances manager, Exclusive Networks Middle East. “Channel partners will be keen to take advantage of this market leading technology. Not only is HyperStore fully in step with the Exclusive Networks philosophy of compliant, automated, simplified, low opex, high scalability datacentre operations, but there are also outstanding synergies with the rest of our solution stack.“

Among these synergies is technology from cloud data management company Rubrik, Inc., a Cloudian technology alliance partner and fellow vendor partner of Exclusive Networks. Customers using Cloudian and Rubrik in combination can simplify their entire data management and storage into these two constituent parts. Other notable synergies within Exclusive Networks’ current solution stack includes Nutanix, Inc., where Cloudian HyperStore provides extra capacity for customers’ large-scale storage demands.

“Exclusive Networks is an important part of our expansion strategy in EMEA and we look forward to joining forces to see our vision realised,” said Jacco van Achterberg, VP EMEA sales, Cloudian. “We are committed to supporting high quality partners that understand the possibilities of scale-out object storage, both in the Middle East and across the entire EMEA/APAC Exclusive Networks footprint. There is rapidly increasing demand for our fully S3API compliant object storage solutions; the time is right and Exclusive Networks is uniquely equipped to accelerate our partner and customer growth.“