Gary Ogasawara, CTO at Cloudian, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
Ogasawara isresponsible for setting Cloudian's long-term technology vision and direction as it builds on its position as the most widely deployed independent provider of object storage systems. Before assuming the CTO role, he was Cloudian's founding engineering leader. Prior to Cloudian, Ogasawara led the Engineering team at eCentives, a search engine company. He also led the development of real-time commerce and advertising systems at Inktomi, an Internet infrastructure company. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in uncertainty reasoning and machine learning.
Cloudian is a provider of object storage. With a native S3 API, it brings the scalability and flexibility of public cloud storage into the data center while providing ransomware protection and reducing TCO by up to 70% compared to traditional SAN/NAS and public cloud. The geo-distributed architecture enables users to manage and protect object and file data across sites — on-premises and in the cloud — from a single platform. Available as software or appliances, Cloudian supports conventional and containerized applications.