Cloudian was founded with a clear vision: to bring cloud-native storage technology to the enterprise.
Unlike the expensive, complex, and proprietary object storage products which came before it, Cloudian’s technology allows all sizes and types of users to realize the benefits of cloud-native object storage in their own data centers.
Conquer the Unstructured Data Challenge
Data center managers, broadcasters, researchers, and software developers need solutions to help them contend with the explosive growth in unstructured data. Across all industries – from media, to medical, to industrial – new applications, formats, and technologies are driving this rapid increase of data, creating issues around storage costs and complexity. An affordable, highly-scalable, easy-to-use storage system was needed.
The Answer: A Standard API and Limitless Scalability
First, the revolutionary new solution needed to be built on a widely accepted API which software developers would embrace. Amazon’s S3-API was rapidly becoming the de facto object storage standard.
Next, the solution demanded a highly scalable platform. Cloudian launched in 2011 the HyperStore platform, our Hyperscale peer-to-peer scale out architecture. In this elegant design, HyperStore nodes join together to form a single cluster which is then managed as a single system. With geo-distribution and multi-tenancy, that cluster can span multiple locations, and can securely accommodate multiple stand-alone users. Start with just a few nodes and grow non-disruptively to exabytes with a single system that can span the globe.
Today, enterprises and service providers alike are building reliable, affordable, and scalable storage solutions with Cloudian, the leading fully native S3 file and object storage solution.