Obviously Storage-as-a-Utility will never work unless people use it that way.
Cloudian, a Goldman Sachs-backed cloud storage software start-up whose technological roots go back a decade or so, means to see that they do, especially the chi-chi telecom ones and the Fortune 5000, despite their lagging concerns about data management and protection in the cloud.
Evidently Cloudian was able to dispel any fears NTT Communications might have had because it’s rebranded Cloudian’s widgetry as CloudN and sells it as a multi-petabyte Storage-as-a-Service and Backup-as-a-Service.
Besides NTT, Cloudian’s customers include Vodafone, Nextel, SoftBank, Nifty and Lunacloud and the stuff’s only been on the market for about 18 months.
Cloudian is now out to get the names of more Service Providers and big companies notched on its belt.