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Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Enterprise software Object storage |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, California, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Michael Tso (CEO) |
| Products | HyperStore HyperStore File Services HyperIQ |
| Services | Object storage Hybrid cloud storage |
| Website | cloudian |
Cloudian is an object storage platform company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2011.[1] It develops software for object and cloud storage.[2][3][4]
History
editIn 2001, Michael Tso formed a company called Gemini Mobile Technologies,[5] together with other MIT alumni, including Joseph Norton.[5] Tso had been an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1990s where he learned about parallel computing from professors Bill Dally and Greg Papadopoulos.[5] He studied as a graduate student at MIT under David D. Clark.[5] Gemini Mobile Technologies was later relaunched in 2011.[6][failed verification]
Cloudian was co-founded out of Gemini Mobile Technologies by Michael Tso and Hiroshi Ohta in 2012.[5] The new company had an increased focus on distributed computing and distributed storage.[5]
In 2014 TechCrunch reported that Cloudian had raised $24 million from investors that included Intel and the Innovation Corporate Network of Japan.[7] In March 2018, Cloudian acquired Infinity Storage, an Italian software company.[8] Later that year TechCrunch reported a $94 million investment in Cloudian from companies that included Goldman Sachs.[9][10] In June 2024 it received an additional $60 million investment.[citation needed]
Products
editCloudian products include HyperStore, a software defined storage alternative to cloud-based services[11][12] built to run on commodity hardware. It is compatible with Amazon Web Services's S3 service.[13] In February 2024, the company released HyperStore version 8 unifying its object and file data products.[13] In 2024 Cloudian collaborated with Nvidia to provide functionality between HyperStore's object storage and Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs).[14][15]
Cloudian released HyperIQ in 2020, a monitoring system for storage performance and usage.[16] HyperIQ was updated in 2021 to support management of multiple storage clusters.[17] In 2022, HyperBalance was released, providing a load balancer for S3 traffic.
Cloudian holds U.S. patents relating to hybrid cloud, object storage, and hierarchical data management.[18]
In July 2025, Cloudian announced that it had extended its object storage system with a vector database, with the idea of reducing data movement for artificial intelligence workloads (in particular, between storage and GPUs).[5]
Adoption
editOrganizations with Cloudian deployments include PostFinance,[4] Rabobank,[19] and Vox Media.[20] Its HyperStore system has been used by NEC and Osaka University for high-performance computing applications.[6] In July 2023, the United States National Library of Medicine (operating under the National Institutes of Health) awarded a five-year contract for Cloudian HyperStore systems and subscriptions.[21] Cloudian partnered with VMware in 2024.[citation needed]
Cloudian has partnered with hardware manufacturers and cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Lenovo, and Supermicro.[22][23] According to MIT News, Cloudian was working with about 1,000 companies as of August 2025[update].[5]
Reception
editCloudian has received both positive and negative evaluations from independent parties. Cloudian was recognized by Gartner with a "Customer's Choice" award in 2022 for distributed file systems and object storage, its third year in a row of receiving the award.[24] However, the company was dropped by Gartner's comparison in October 2024, due to not meeting the inclusion criteria of "a single platform for file and object workloads."[25] Prior to being dropped, Cloudian had been categorized as a "Challenger" in Gartner's "Gartner Magic Quadrant", behind companies such as NetApp, VAST Data, Hitachi Vantara, and Huawei as well as behind "leaders" such as IBM, Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, Scality, and Qumulo.[25]
See also
edit- Amazon web services
- Cloud computing#Hybrid
- Data storage
- DataCore
- Google Cloud Platform
- Object storage
- Microsoft Azure
- Nutanix
- Weka (software)
References
edit- ^ Kovar, Joseph (18 September 2012). "Cloudian Debuts Free Object-Oriented Storage Platform For Amazon S3". CRN.
- ^ "Viettel deploys Cloudian to boost storage service offerings". Channel Asia. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (1 March 2018). "Tonight on IPO, Bought or Binned: Cloudian and Scality collide as object storage endgame nears". The Register. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage | Computer Weekly". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Winn, Zach (2025-08-06). "Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
- ^ a b Burt, Jeffrey (2021-05-03). "Object Storage Makes A Push Into HPC". The Next Platform. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ Shieber, Jonathan (2014-07-08). "[Updated] Cloudian Raises $24 Million Because Not Everything Needs To Live In "The Cloud"". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "To Infinity Storage... and beyond! Cloudian gobbles Italian minnow". Archived from the original on 2025-03-18. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (2018-08-29). "Storage provider Cloudian raises $94M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ Cohan, Peter S. (2019), Cohan, Peter S. (ed.), "Hiring, Promoting, and Letting People Go", Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion, Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp. 153–178, doi:10.1007/978-1-4842-4312-1_6, ISBN 978-1-4842-4312-1, retrieved 2025-06-20
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ^ Anderson, Chris (July 2017). "Triple Threat: OnRamp Bioinformatics, Cloudian, ScaleMatrix Combine Services for Genomic Data Analysis and Storage Offering". Clinical OMICs. 4 (4): 30–31. doi:10.1089/clinomi.04.04.20.
- ^ Thompson, Zach (26 May 2022). "Microsoft, Cloudian partnership offers data center flexibility". DataCenterNew Asia. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Cloudian HyperStore 8 unites file, object storage | TechTarget". Search Storage. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ McDowell, Steve (2024-11-18). "Research Brief: Cloudian Tackles AI Storage Complexity with NVIDIA GPUDirect for Object Storage - NAND Research". Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "Cloudian Speeds Up Object Storage Links to GPUs - Futuriom". www.futuriom.com. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ Kidd, Mark (2015-12-22). "Cloudian HyperStore Review". StorageReview.com. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "Cloudian updates HyperIQ with security, simplicity features | TechTarget". Search Storage. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "Patents Assigned to Cloudian Holdings, Inc. - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "Rabobank Counters Growing Ransomware Crisis with Cloudian Object Storage". Financial IT. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "Cloudian storage replaces tape at Vox Media | TechTarget". Search Disaster Recovery. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ Gilbert, Jackie (2023-07-21). "NIH NLM awards $1M Cloudian HyperStore 4216 Systems and Subscription task". Forum Insights. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ "AI server solutions: Supermicro enables GPU and storage". SiliconANGLE. 2024-08-13. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (23 January 2018). "Multi-cloud Cloudian controllers now run in AWS, Azure and Google". The Register. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ Thompson, Zach. "Cloudian recognised by Gartner for third consecutive year". IT Brief New Zealand. Archived from the original on 2023-12-10. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
- ^ a b Mellor, Chris (2024-10-11). "Gartner's file and object MQ drops Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
