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{{Short description|Cloud-based file storage service}}
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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==
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==External links==
* [https://www.ibm.com/
[[Category:IBM acquisitions]]
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