Cloudian, a privately owned US-based company founded in 2011, develops and provides software for managing and storing large amounts of data. Employing approximately 270 people, the company's primary product is a media cloud and storage platform aimed at independent object storage providers. This platform facilitates data consolidation, management, and protection, enabling businesses to improve their data analysis and management capabilities. In 2022, Cloudian's revenue was less than $50 million.
Cloudian developed a unified storage-compute platform that addresses data bottlenecks in AI applications by enabling high-speed parallel access to large datasets for GPUs. This platform was highlighted by MIT as a solution to scaling challenges in AI. Separately, Cloudian announced that its object storage offers built-in metadata search capabilities, allowing applications to locate and retrieve data using various tags and labels, including AI-generated ones. Cloudian also highlighted the use of its HyperStore with Veeam backups, emphasizing the Cyberstorage feature set.