Cloudian

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Cloudian, Inc.
Type Private
Industry Information technology, data storage
Founded2011
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
Michael Tso (CEO, Co-Founder)
Jon Toor (CMO)
Carlo Garbagnati (VP of Engineering)
Gary Ogasawara (CTO)
Jon Ash (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Michael Morgan (CFO)
Fadel Hamed (VP of Customer Success)
ProductsCloudian HyperStore (object storage), HyperFile (scale-out file services)
Number of employees
250 (2021) [1]
Website www.cloudian.com

Cloudian, Inc. is a US enterprise data storage company headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Europe and Asia. [2] It produces Amazon S3-compatible object storage [3] software, scale-out file services software, and pre-configured hardware appliances. [4]

History

Cloudian was launched in 2011 by CEO Michael Tso [5] and President Hiroshi Ohta. [6]

In 2018, Cloudian raised $94 million in a fifth round of equity funding, which included participation from investors Digital Alpha, Fidelity Eight Roads, Goldman Sachs, INCJ, Japan Post Investment, Lenovo, NTT Docomo Ventures, and WS Investments [7] [8] [9] . That brought the company’s total funding to date to $173 million. [10]

Cloudian announced a partnership with Lenovo in June 2016 to sell an appliance in Lenovo's StorSelect line: the DX8200C powered by Cloudian. [11] In August 2016, Cloudian's HyperStore software was made available via the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. [12] [13]

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