Nifty Chooses Gemini’s Cloudian

Gemini Mobile Technologies K.K. (Gemini) announced
that its Cloudian software was selected to power Nifty Cloud
Storage, a cloud storage service provided by Nifty
Corporation (Nifty).

Gemini’s
Cloudian is a cloud storage software product with Amazon S3 API
compatibility. It provides high volume, multi-tenant, and multi-datacenter
cloud storage. With features like virtualized resources, user groups, quality
of service controls, access control rights, reporting and billing, Cloudian
enables cloud service providers to deploy public and private
clouds on low cost hardware. Cloudian’s automatic replication,
failover, and re-balancing features provide reliability and help service
provides to avoid initial investment in storage appliances.

Cloudian’s S3 API compatibility allows service providers to benefit from variety of applications in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem. Web
applications, appliances, and tools that support S3 REST API can be used with
Cloudian without modification.

"On September 29, 2011, Nifty announced the
Nifty Cloud Storage, which is an elastic cloud storage service with unlimited
capacity," said Mr. Hiroshi Kurahara, General Manager of Cloud
Business at Nifty. "Due to Gemini’s
Cloudian product, with very fast time to market, we were able to enhance the
existing Nifty Cloud service with Nifty Cloud Storage. Together with Gemini,
Nifty Cloud will continue to provide market leading features and value in the
cloud computing market."

S3
REST API: Application Programming Interface to use REST (REpresentational State
Transfer) of S3 (Simple Storage Service), the Cloud Storage service provided by
AWS (Amazon Web Services). S3 REST API is the de-facto standard, with hundreds
of publically available applications and tools in S3’s diverse and active
ecosystem.