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Cloudian

CEO: Hiroshi Ohta

Cloudian, of Foster City, Calif., offers an Amazon S3-compatible cloud object storage platform letting solution providers and businesses build scalable cloud storage products.

Cloudian supports cloud computing environments such as Citrix Cloud Platform and OpenStack, as well as the tools and apps offered with Amazon S3.

The company is also distributing a free version of its technology, called Cloudian Community Edition, which provides the functionality of the full version but limits users to 100 TB of cloud-based storage.