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Line 1: {{Short description\|Cloud-based file storage service}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox website Line 8 ⟶ 9: \| website = {{URL\|https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/cloud-object-storage}} }} '''IBM Cloud Object Storage''' is a service offered by [[IBM]]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ibm.com/cloud\|title = IBM Cloud}}</ref> for storing and accessing unstructured data. The [[object storage]] service can be deployed [[on-~~premise~~premises]], as part of [[IBM Cloud\|IBM Cloud Platform]] offerings, or in hybrid form.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252449283/Object-storage-On-prem-in-the-cloud-and-hybrid\|title = Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid}}</ref> The offering can store any type of object which allows for uses like data archiving and backup, web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics.<ref>{{cite web\|access-date=30 April 2023 \|url=http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5537.pdf\|title=IBM Cloud Object Storage Concepts and Architecture. System Edition \|website=IBM\|year=2021\|author=Alexander Gavrin\|display-authors=et. al.}}</ref> Interaction with Cloud Object Storage is based on Rest APIs. Line 20 ⟶ 21: The offering was originally introduced by [[Cleversafe Inc.]], a company based in Chicago, Illinois.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2014/03/19/chris-gladwins-cleversafe-seeks-to-lead-the-100-petabyte-storage-market\|title=Chris Gladwin's Cleversafe Seeks to Lead the 100+ Petabyte Storage Market\|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> Cleversafe sold an [[object storage]] system, which it calls the Dispersed Storage Network or dsNet. Cleversafe was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2004 by [[Chris Gladwin (engineer)\|S. Christopher Gladwin]] and was originally based in [[Illinois Institute of Technology\|IIT]]'s [[technology incubator]]. The company has stated that it provides "limitless data storage". The company had 116 patents issued to it in 2014.<ref>{{cite web\| url = http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150328/ISSUE01/150329837/at-these-companies-its-patents-before-product\| title = NuCurrent, Cleversafe focus on filing for patents early {{!}} Crain's Chicago Business\| date = March 27, 2015}}</ref> [[IBM]] announced the completion of its acquisition of Cleversafe on November 6, 2015 and has since rebranded the company's products as IBM Cloud Object Storage.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = IBM Completes Acquisition of Cleversafe\|url = http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/48027.wss\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151109211426/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/48027.wss\|url-status = dead\|archive-date = November 9, 2015\|website = www-03.ibm.com\|date = November 6, 2015\|accessdate = 30 November 2015}}</ref> ==References== Line 26 ⟶ 27: ==External links== * [https://www.ibm.com/~~cloud~~products/cloud-object-storage/ Official website] [[Category:IBM acquisitions]]