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Leading IaaS Player Is Latest Company to Turn to Cloudian For its Public Cloud Storage Solution

FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Gemini Technologies today announced that Constant Hosting, an emerging leader in the public cloud storage and infrastructure as a service markets, has selected Gemini's industry-leading Cloudian software to power its cloud storage service, continuing Cloudian's momentum as the choice of Cloud Service Providers looking to build reliable, multi-tenant S3 compatible storage solutions quickly and cost-effectively.

Constant Hosting turned to Gemini because of Cloudian's unique ability to provide full S3 compatibility in a quick-to-deploy turnkey cloud storage platform. Constant Hosting can now offer reliable and scalable cloud storage services via low cost commodity hardware while taking advantage of the broad number of applications in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem, enabling numerous profitable use cases. Cloudian is allowing the rapidly growing Constant Hosting to add key end user applications and low cost public storage without worries about scale or reliability.

"We are thrilled to have full Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage with Cloudian. No other cloud storage solution can offer a comprehensive solution that meets our customers' and partners' demands," said Brian Haun, Cloud Services Director, Constant Hosting. "Not only is Cloudian the most affordable and reliable solution we have found, it is also the most robust. We look forward to continuing to grow our services and business with Cloudian."

The Cloudian platform offers a fully distributed, peer-to-peer architecture, with no single point of failure. Cloudian also provides a comprehensive user interface for both end user applications as well as administrative functions, including billing , monitoring and provisioning. The solution easily scales from one node up to hundreds of nodes across multiple data centers, supporting petabytes of data. System operators can leverage heterogeneous commodity PC servers for cost-effective horizontal scalability. New node detection and data re-balancing is performed automatically without service interruption.

"With the Cloudian S3-compatible platform, public cloud providers such as Constant Hosting can build out highly reliable, powerful cloud storage options that can help them build their businesses," said Giorgio Propersi, Gemini general manager, Americas and EMEA. "In addition, by using low-cost commodity infrastructure, Cloudian is taking down barriers and enabling companies to offer new innovative services without budget worries, which is exactly what Constant Hosting is doing today. We look forward to helping Constant Hosting continue to grow in the years to come."

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About Gemini Founded in 2001, Gemini has been a worldwide leader in developing and deploying "Big Data" solutions for service providers around the globe. Today Gemini has transformed itself into a cloud pioneer and is uniquely positioned to provide service providers and enterprises with solutions for their cloud storage needs. Utilizing Cloudian's unique Hyper-Store(TM) storage layer for maximum flexibility, service providers can now offer reliable and scalable cloud storage solutions utilizing low cost commodity hardware, while taking advantage of the broad number of applications in the S3 ecosystem. Gemini customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Nextel, Docomo, NTT, SoftBank, Telecom Italia, Nifty, and Clara Online, among others. The company is headquartered in Foster City, California, and has offices in Japan and China. For more information, visit http://www.geminimobile.com or email info@geminimobile.com.

About Constant Hosting Constant Hosting is an emerging leader in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) industry, providing a broad range of solutions including compute, object storage, productivity apps and DNS. Constant also offers Managed Dedicated Hosting, IP Transit and Colocation distributed across multiple strategically located datacenters around the globe. Evolving since 1999, Constant Hosting conducts primary operations from and maintains corporate offices in the New York Metropolitan area. For more information, please visit http://www.constant.com.

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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -05/31/12)- Intermedia, a global leader in cloud services and the world's largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, announced today that it joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders.

"As our customers move to the cloud, and as end users access corporate and private data from a range of mobile and desktop devices, ensuring data privacy and security is of paramount importance," says Michael Gold, president, Intermedia. "Intermedia has been providing secure, business-grade cloud-based services for over a decade. We look forward to working with the CSA to contribute deep knowledge in cloud security, while also learning from the many other experts in this fast growing space."

"We are pleased to welcome Intermedia to the CSA," says Jim Reavis, executive director of the CSA. "We applaud its decision to join other industry leaders in furthering the use of best practices for securing cloud computing, and look forward to them lending their experience to our continued research."

Intermedia delivers its integrated suite of cloud services for small and medium-size businesses in its secure, business-grade cloud. The company's cloud solutions use an array of security controls, including encryption and intrusion and malware detection systems, to address customers' data privacy, security and compliance needs when transitioning their business communications to the cloud. The company develops and delivers many proprietary security services including Outlook Backup, Message Mirror, SpamStopper, VirusStopper and Mobile Device Management. Intermedia established a strong privacy policy governing the protection of customer data, which passed Safe Harbor compliance standards set forth by the US Department of Commerce.

ABOUT INTERMEDIAIntermedia is the premier provider of cloud services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Its integrated suite enables SMBs to communicate, collaborate and handle content using a secure, business grade infrastructure. These highly reliable services are backed by a 24x7 support, 99.999% financially backed SLA, and a Cloud Concierge custom migration service. Intermedia is the world's largest hosted Exchange provider with over 450,000 mailboxes under management. The company's Office in the Cloud suite combines Intermedia's proprietary offerings for complete mobility, backup, security, voice and more with Microsoft tools such as Exchange 2010, Lync and SharePoint. All services are delivered from Intermedia's secure, SSAE16 certified datacenters and managed from the company's proprietary HostPilot Control Panel -- providing customers a single point of control. Intermedia also empowers thousands of partners -- including managed service providers and select Fortune 500 companies -- to sell cloud services under their own brand. Founded in 1995 Intermedia was the first to offer hosted Microsoft Exchange services. For more information, visit http://www.intermedia.net.

ABOUT THE CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCEThe Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, visit us at http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

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