NTT Communications Selecting Cloudian S3 Object Storage Platform

Cloudian, Inc., in S3 compatible cloud storage software, announced that NTT Communications has selected its platform to power its cloud storage service, Biz Hosting Cloud(n) Object Storage.

The service
is being initially provided via NTT Communications data centers in
Japan, to be followed by data centers in the United States and in other
countries. NTT Communications is a subsidiary of NTT Corporation,
provider of telecommunications services and ranked number one in the
telecom industry in the Fortune Global 500.

After a study of all solutions in the market, NTT chose Cloudian because
it provided the greatest level of S3 compatibility, scalability,
multi-tenant and multi-datacenter capabilities. In addition to being the
first fully S3 compatible object store on the market, Cloudian had
proven its reliability, ease of use, and support with more than a year
of commercial deployments. Since NTT had previously selected the Citrix
Cloud Platform for its cloud compute services, another important factor
in its selection of Cloudian was the partnership between Cloudian and
Citrix and the integration of those platforms.

Susumu Okuhira, NTT Communications director of Hosting and Platform
Service, Cloud Services said: "NTT Communications launched a business
hosting service, Biz Hosting Cloud(n) on March 30, 2012. Our aim is to
provide innovative, highly reliable ICT service seamlessly across the
globe under our Global Cloud Vision. With this aim, we were also
studying an object storage service that is highly scalable, with
unlimited data capacity. Cloudian has a proven track record in global
markets to provide highly resilient and robust object storage with an
Amazon S3-compatible API, which we believe is an optimal fit with our
idea of object storage service."

"This deployment is an important milestone for the Cloudian Platform and we are excited to have been chosen by NTT Communications," said Michael Tso, COO, Cloudian. "Considering
the thoroughness of NTT Communication’s evaluation process and the size
of the deployment of the Cloud(n) Storage as a Service, we believe that
Cloudian can now be considered as one of the few proven cloud storage
solutions ready for customers with the highest profile and largest
systems in the world."

Cloudian is for enterprises and service providers looking to offer
Amazon S3-compatible Storage as a Service (StaaS) and/or provide
secondary storage systems for their cloud compute platforms, such as
Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, and OpenStack.

The company recently released the free Cloudian Community Edition, which
will support up to 100TB of useable storage and offer forum support,
opening up the scalability, reliability and power of cloud object
storage to anyone building an Amazon S3-compatible cloud, be it public,
private or hybrid.

To download the Cloudian Community Edition (registration needed)