Under the new agreement, Rausch has become a ‘Cloudian Preferred Partner’, and will be bringing Cloudian HyperStore software and appliances to the German market to address a variety of customer storage needs including storage as a service offerings, backup and archive. Key local market segments will include service providers and datacentres.
Historically a specialist server hardware manufacturer, Rausch is seeing increasing demand for software solutions and storage appliances, and is partnering with Cloudian to target this growing marketplace. The agreement is the latest in a series of partnership announcements which have seen Cloudian increase its presence across Germany, France, Benelux and the UK.
Sebastian N?lting, CEO, Rausch Netzwerktechnik, commented: “There is strong market demand in Germany for scale-out storage solutions, and Cloudian is the ideal partner for us to enhance our ability to deliver the best technology. The combination of our high density BigFoot storage systems, expertise and Cloudian’s software is exactly what our customers want, and we also expect to find new markets as the partnership develops.
“We are delighted to bring this partnership with Rausch to market,” said Jacco van Achterberg, EMEA Sales Director at Cloudian. “Germany is a very important region for Cloudian and the impressive experience of Rausch in the Service Provider market was instrumental in the two companies working together. We are already signing up our first joint customer, and believe we can build further momentum and success together.”
