Auwau and PoINT have developed a joint solution for storage service providers. Bringing together the two products Cloutility and PoINT Archival Gateway enables providers to offer tape-based object storage as-a-service, with user and authorisation management entirely on the customer side.
To enable customers of cloud storage services to manage users and authorisations themselves, service providers must offer a suitable user interface.
Danish company Auwau has developed Cloutility, a web service that provides flexible and secure multi-tenancy: cloud providers and their resellers and customers can organise storage, repositories and authorisations for departments and users in a hierarchical structure.
The cooperation with PoINT enables the integration of the S3-to-tape solution PoINT Archival Gateway into this user administration. This simplifies the user-friendly integration of a tape storage class.
Cloud providers can now offer a cost-effective Glacier storage class on which their customers can create users and buckets as tenants and define authorisations themselves via the Cloutility interface. Cloutility also allows the configuration of subscription-based recurring billing automation for all tenants.
“This is an important strategic partnership,” said Thomas Bak, CEO of Auwau. “With Cloutility and PoINT, cloud providers can significantly expand their S3 offering while providing their customers with maximum flexibility.”
