Allytics Tech Perspectives

Allytics Tech Perspectives

Allytics Tech Perspectives

Cloudian

Cloudian provides exabyte-scalable data platform software centered on enterprise-class, S3-compatible object storage for AI, analytics, hybrid cloud, and data protection workloads. Its platform is designed to manage massive volumes of unstructured data on-premises and across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with native S3 compatibility that supports thousands of S3-enabled applications.

The portfolio spans core object storage, file services, observability, managed operations, load balancing, and AI infrastructure offerings. Cloudian serves enterprise, public sector, and service provider customers across numerous industries, and its website highlights more than 900 global customers.

Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations

Cloudian’s offerings emphasize native S3 compatibility, exabyte-scale architecture, geo-distribution, multi-tenancy, and hybrid and multi-cloud data management. Its software supports secure storage for unstructured data with features such as encryption, immutable Object Lock, identity and access controls, ransomware protection, and policy-driven replication or tiering between on-premises environments and public cloud services.

Cloudian also connects into a broader infrastructure ecosystem. Its platform integrates with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud for hybrid cloud workflows, and its partner ecosystem includes major data protection, virtualization, analytics, and AI vendors such as Veeam, Rubrik, VMware, Splunk, Snowflake, Veritas, Microsoft, AWS, and NVIDIA.

Products and Services

  • HyperStore Object Storage: Enterprise-grade, software-defined, S3-compatible object storage for massive unstructured data volumes, available as standalone software or appliances and deployable on-premises, in hybrid cloud, multi-site, or multi-cloud architectures.
  • HyperScale AIDP: Pre-configured on-premises AI appliance that combines NVIDIA AI infrastructure with Cloudian storage to turn unstructured enterprise data into AI-ready assets, including integrated vector database capabilities and throughput scalable to over 1TB/s reads in a single rack.
  • HyperStore File Services: Scale-out file services for Cloudian HyperStore that provide SMB, NFS, and POSIX access, Active Directory and LDAP integration, local caching, and bimodal access to file data on-premises and in the cloud.
  • HyperIQ Observability & Analytics: Monitoring and predictive analysis software that gives a single-screen view of storage and networking, with dashboards, alerts, capacity analysis, and user behavior visibility across single-site and multi-site environments.
  • HyperCare Managed Service: Remote managed service for Cloudian object storage that provides lights-out operations, 24x7x365 monitoring, proactive reporting, trusted-advisor guidance, and ongoing system updates.
  • HyperBalance Load Balancer: Adaptive load balancing layer for HyperStore that intelligently routes traffic across storage nodes to improve performance, availability, and geo-distributed operation; it is available as a VM or optimized appliance and integrates with HyperIQ.

Target Customers

Cloudian targets organizations that need to store, protect, and analyze large and fast-growing volumes of unstructured data. Its customer base spans enterprises, public sector organizations, and service providers, with positioning that also supports managed service and storage-as-a-service models.

Cloudian’s marketed industries and workloads include AI and machine learning, data analytics, backup and archive, media and entertainment, bioinformatics, IoT and edge computing, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, government, manufacturing, education, retail, energy, and video surveillance or digital evidence environments.

Cloud Integrations and Marketplace

  • AWS Marketplace: Cloudian maintains an AWS Marketplace presence for HyperStore, including marketplace availability for hybrid edge and AWS Outposts-oriented deployments.
  • Azure Marketplace: Cloudian is listed in Azure Marketplace with Cloudian HyperCloud, which provides an S3-API interface to Azure Blob storage and keeps ingested data in native Azure Blob format.
  • Google Cloud: Cloudian HyperStore integrates with Google Cloud for replication, policy-based tiering, and direct access to cloud-stored data in native cloud formats as part of hybrid cloud workflows.

Key People

  • Michael Tso: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
  • Keith Kitchen: Chief Financial Officer
  • Jon Toor: Chief Marketing Officer
  • Neil Stobart: Chief Technical Officer
  • Mike Canavan: Vice President, Worldwide Sales
  • Carlo Garbagnati: Vice President, Engineering
  • Fadel Hamed: Vice President, Customer Success
  • Lisa Hodges: Vice President, HR and Administration
  • Eric Craig: Vice President, Global Partnerships
  • Laura Kelly: Vice President, Corporate Marketing
  • Peter Sjoberg: Vice President, Worldwide Solution Architects
  • Carsten Graf: Vice President, Sales – EMEA

Key Facts

  • Headquarters: San Mateo, California, United States
  • Employees: 201-500
  • Annual Revenue: $30M-$36M
  • Parent Company: None
  • Subsidiaries: None
  • Publicly Listed: Not publicly listed

Analyst Recognitions

  • Gartner: 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage – Customers’ Choice.
  • IDC: 2019 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage Vendor Assessment – Major Player.
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