Lenovo, Cloudian Partner On Amazon S3-Compatible Object Storage Appliance

Software-defined storage vendor #Cloudian is partnering with server vendor #Lenovo to bring an object storage appliance compatible with #Amazon’s S3 public cloud to the channel.

San Mateo, Calif.-based Cloudian and Lenovo, which has its U.S. headquarters in Morrisville, N.C., on Monday unveiled an appliance combining Cloudian's HyperStore software with a Lenovo Storage DX8200C system, touting it as a simple way to bring object storage with unlimited scalability and multitenancy to the Amazon S3 cloud.

The solution ships preconfigured, making it a rack-ready solution targeting big data applications, said Paul Turner, Cloudian chief marketing officer.

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