Sixth Consecutive FY of Record Bookings for Cloudian

Cloudian, Inc. announced its sixth consecutive fiscal year of record bookings, including its highest quarterly sales ever in the fourth quarter.

The company also expanded its WW customer base by 36% for the year, to over 550 customers, whose total Cloudian storage capacity grew 63%.

Industry Recognition and Customer Wins

Further validation of object storage leadership, including the highest rankings across all use cases in Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities for Object Storage, a report focused on evaluating object storage providers.
Industry honors, including Object Lock ransomware protection solution winning Best New Storage Technology in the 2020 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards and its HyperIQ observability and analytics software being named a Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com 2020 Products of the Year Awards finalist.
Marquee customer wins industry, including the US Centers for Disease Control, a US Federal Reserve Bank, the University of California-Berkeley, Oxford University, 2 of the world’s top financial news companies, several financial services providers, major retail chains in the US, Europe and Australia, a global car manufacturer and a number of healthcare and cloud services providers.

Partnership Momentum

Free healthcare ransomware protection program with VMware Cloud Providers.
Integration of Cloudian’s object storage software on VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu, providing a single, shared storage environment for multiple use cases across cloud-native and traditional applications.
Growing adoption of Cloudian object storage in VMware Cloud Providers program, with deployments across the globe by leading service providers such as Green Cloud (US), Expedient (US), AUCloud (Australia), Dataline (Russia) and Advanced Info Service PLC (Thailand).
Strong growth of ransomware protection solution-available with Veeam and Commvault – that makes backup data copies immutable and, therefore, invulnerable to hacker encryption or deletion.
Integration with Splunk SmartStore, enabling organizations to index and store more data at lower cost by decoupling compute and storage.

New/Enhanced Solutions
Launch of flash-optimized object storage software, with leading price/performance and the ability to deploy flash and HDD-based nodes within an adaptive hybrid architecture.
New HyperIQ observability and analytics software that provides an unified management view of Cloudian storage and infrastructure as well as user behavior insights.
Expanded data security leadership through Cloudian HyperStore’s certification with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), adding to Cloudian’s Common Criteria, SEC Rule 17a-4(f) and other security certifications.

“Cloudian is at the forefront in overcoming data management and protection challenges exacerbated by the COVID pandemic,” said Michael Tso, CEO. “Our record results reflect the unparalleled value we provide to enterprises and service providers seeking a storage foundation that can support both modern and traditional applications, whether on-premises or in a hybrid cloud environment. “In the coming year, we will continue working closely with our solution and channel partners to ensure customers can execute their digital transformation and drive greater business success.”