Cloudian, a global provider of object storage systems, has announced its new, global Managed Services Provider program that would make it easier for MSPs to expand their businesses with high value-add services built on S3-compatible storage.
According to IDC, within the public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market, cloud storage services revenues are expected to reach $20 billion in 2019 and more than double to $44 billion in the next three years. IDC also says that “opportunities continue to exist for new entrants with targeted offerings.”
Cloudian’s new program would enable Managed Services Providers to capitalize on this market growth opportunity with “innovative” object storage solutions for a range of use cases. These use cases would include:
- Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS)
- Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)
- Archive-as-a-Service (AaaS)
- Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
- Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS)
Leveraging Cloudian’s “limitlessly” scalable and feature-rich HyperStore object storage platform and extensive technology partner ecosystem, MSPs would be enabled to deliver “profitable” cloud storage solutions that better meet their customers’ evolving data protection and management needs.
By partnering with Cloudian, MSPs would get the benefit of not only limitless, modular scalability but also:
- Full S3 compatibility to ensure trouble-free application support
- Proven compatibility with technology partner solutions in data protection, big data and data management
- Integrated management tools such as billing and quality of service controls
- Multi-tenancy to provide users with secured, self-managed storage within a shared platform
- Geo-distribution for easily managing storage across multiple data centers
- Support for SMB/NFS storage servicesChoice of configurations, including software-defined storage and pre-configured appliances.
Cloudian storage systems can be deployed as software on industry-standard servers and on virtual machines, or as appliances. Cloudian also provides the flexibility of a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners to pay only for the capacity they use each month. Additional MSP program benefits would include co-branded solutions collateral, a partner portal, online training and 24×7 technical support.
“More than 100 service providers around the world already rely on Cloudian-powered solutions to help their customers manage and protect their continually growing data volumes and maximize the value of these digital assets,” said Jon Toor, chief marketing officer (CMO) of Cloudian. “We look forward to building partnerships with additional MSPs and enabling them to achieve greater growth and profitability by bringing the benefits of our solutions to more users.”
