BOSTON – 20 December 2018 – Trilio, the leader in data protection and recovery solutions for OpenStack, has been named a finalist in the “Most Promising Start-Up” category in the 2018-2019 Cloud Awards. The awards program, which celebrates success and innovation in the cloud computing industry, accepts applications from hundreds of organizations around the world each year.

“We’re thrilled to be a contender for the Cloud Awards’ ‘Most Promising Start-Up’ this year,” said David Safaii, CEO of Trilio. “As private and hybrid cloud technologies continue their booming growth, Trilio is filling a critical gap through its cloud-native backup and recovery capabilities. Trilio empowers all users of a cloud to gain on-demand access to the resources they need when they need them, a powerful shift toward workload flexibility and mobility. We’re proud of our contributions to the cloud marketplace and are committed to continued innovation as container technology continues to shift the open infrastructure landscape.”

TrilioVault’s agentless, software-only solution is native to OpenStack and KVM, providing self-service protection and recovery of entire workloads to the users of each platform to almost any on premise or off premise storage environment. Foundationally architected for the cloud, TrilioVault can scale quickly with zero performance degradation. With TrilioVault, businesses have total control to back up their clouds in a way that’s easily recoverable and requires little-to-no central IT administration.

“In such a competitive global marketplace, the need to not only use these technologies but to continue to innovate has grown ever-stronger,” said Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson. “This year, the judges have had a more difficult time than ever in deciding which entrants should move forward to the next stage, and every submission displayed unique points of merit. We can only wait until 2019 to see which organizations emerge as final winners in their chosen Cloud Awards category.”

Hundreds of organizations entered, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. You can view the full shortlist here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2019-shortlist.

Final winners will be announced on Tuesday 29 January 2019.

About Trilio

Trilio is a leader in data protection for OpenStack and RHV environments, and the only provider of OpenStack-native backup and recovery solutions. Since 2013, Trilio has been on a mission to give tenants more control over their ever-changing, growing, complex, and scalable cloud-based architectures. Today, Trilio is trusted by businesses all around the world to protect their clouds in a way that’s easily recoverable, and requires little-to-no central IT administration. Follow us on Twitter @triliodata and LinkedIn or visit www.trilio.io to learn more.

About the Cloud Awards

The Cloud Awards is an international program which has been recognizing and honoring industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2019 and beyond. Categories include Most Promising Start-Up, Best SaaS, and “Best in Mobile” Cloud Solution. Finalists were selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards please visit http://www.cloud-awards.com/.