Cloudian

Cloudian, Inc. (formerly known as Gemini Mobile Technologies) is a US software developing company specializing in cloud technology.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Cloudian is headquartered in Foster City, California, and has offices in Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China.[3][7]

Cloudian is turnkey distributed object storage software product.[3][7][8][9] With Cloudian, Enterprise IT and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) can deploy multi-tenant private and public cloud storage clouds on commodity IA servers.[3][4][7][10][11] Cloudian is S3 API compatible, which enables public and private cloud users access to existing S3 applications.[3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] To minimize the effect, should a network or site failure occur, Cloudian's software falls back to predefined levels.[3][5][11][13] The user can decide on the priority of synchronous replication, local quorum, and asynchronous replication.[5][6] Cloudian has the expandability and flexibility to allow cloud service businesses and enterprises to increase their cluster's stored data size economically to match increases in data volume by adding general-purpose IA servers.[3][4][6][7][9][12]

It implements functions such as statistics and billing, user and group management and usage volume control which are all required for providing services.[3][7][12] Cloudian's platform is used to power the storage of private, public and hybrid clouds.[5][6][9] Cloudian was launched in early 2011.[2]

History

In 2001, Gemini Mobile Technologies started with mobile Internet optimization software.[7][8][14] They then moved on to messaging and mail, creating a need for storage, which led to Cloudian’s launch in 2011.[8]

Michael Tso is the CEO and co-founder.[6][15] Hiroshi Ohta is the president and co-founder.[16]

In early 2013, Cloudian partnered with the Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack and cloud on-ramp providers.[6][7][8][17] Cloudian is inter-connected with Citrix cloud platform, S3 API appliances such as NFS cloud storage gateways from TwinStrata and Riverbed, and S3 applications, tools and services.[2]

In September 2013, CA Technologies partnered with Cloudian, Inc. to provide managed services providers (MSPs) and other businesses with a combined solution that lets IT back up data to a public, private or hybrid cloud through a redesign of current backup architecture to leverage cloud computing resources.[4][9][13]

Funding

As of April 2013, Goldman Sachs and private backers fund Cloudian; there is no data on how much funding is being provided.[7] In October 2013, Cloudian received funding from Intel Corporation.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Goldman Backs Gemini Mobile". New York Times DealBook. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Cloudian Debuts Free Object-Oriented Storage Platform For Amazon S3". CRN. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Cloudian Unveils Cloud 'Storage-as-a-Utility' Platform". Infostor. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Cloudian Enters into an Agreement with CA Technologies". infoTECH. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cloudian upgrades storage software with management, encryption features". Tech World. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Cloudian Creates Connector for Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager". XPRO. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Cloudian Polishes Its S3-Compatible Cloud Storage". Virtualization Journal. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Five Minute Interview – Cloudian". Datastax. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cloudian hopes to woo enterprises with free edition of storage platform". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  10. 1 2 "Cloudian connects with Citrix for easier cloud rollouts". CIO. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  11. 1 2 3 "New Big Data Cloud Storage Software From Cloudian". Tools Journal. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  12. 1 2 3 ""Cloudian", a cloud storage software fully compliant with S3 REST API". Creation Online. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  13. 1 2 "CA, Cloudian Pitch Combined Backup Solution to MSPs". Takin Cloud. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Cloudian Partnership Opens Up NoSQL Treasure Trove for OpenStack". Read Write. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Michael Tso - Chief Executive Officer". Venture Deal. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Hiroshi Ohta - President". Venture Deal. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  17. ↑ "Cloudian connects with Citrix for easier cloud rollouts". Computer World UK. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  18. ↑ Andrew Nusca (October 23, 2013). "Intel deploys $65 million in new tech investments". ZDNet. Retrieved December 16, 2013.

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