Cloudian

In 2001, Michael Tso formed a company called Gemini Mobile Technologies, In March 2018, Cloudian acquired Infinity Storage, an Italian software company. Later that year TechCrunch reported a $94 million investment in Cloudian from companies that included Goldman Sachs. In June 2024 it received an additional $60 million investment. == Products ==

Cloudian products include HyperStore, a software defined storage alternative to cloud-based services built to run on commodity hardware. It is compatible with Amazon Web Services's S3 service. In February 2024, the company released HyperStore version 8 unifying its object and file data products. Cloudian released HyperIQ in 2020, a monitoring system for storage performance and usage. HyperIQ was updated in 2021 to support management of multiple storage clusters. 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. 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). == Adoption ==

Organizations with Cloudian deployments include PostFinance, Rabobank, and Vox Media. Its HyperStore system has been used by NEC and Osaka University for high-performance computing applications. 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. Cloudian partnered with VMware in 2024. Cloudian has partnered with hardware manufacturers and cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Lenovo, and Supermicro. According to MIT News, Cloudian was working with about 1,000 companies . == Reception ==

Cloudian 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. 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." 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. == See also ==