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IBM Cloud Object Storage

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Cleversafe, Inc. is a Dispersed Storage Technology privately held company based in the United States and is pioneering Dispersed Storage Technology and software[2]. Cleversafe is the developer of Dispersed Storage Network software. Dispersed storage is a technology that uses erasure codes to split data into multiple slices, each of which is then stored to an independent storage appliance via TCP/IP. Due to properties of erasure codes, the dispersed storage system can tolerate multiple failures of individual storage appliances without losing the ability to recover data.

Cleversafe, Inc.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryDispersed Data Storage
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
,
USA
ProductsCleversafe Accesser
Cleversafe Manager
Cleversafe Slicestor
RevenueNot reported
Number of employees
40[1]
Websitewww.cleversafe.com

History

The company was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2004 by S. Christopher Gladwin, the President and CEO of Cleversafe. Cleversafe is backed by investors like NEA, OCA Ventures, Harrison Street Capital, and Alsop-Louie Partners. Since the founding of Cleversafe in 2004 it has launched its Open Source project, expanded its partner program, and released several versions of its products.

Technology

Cleversafe is based on Cauchy Reed-Solomon Information Dispersal Algorithms (IDA) to separate data into unrecognizable slices and distribute them, via secure Internet connections, to multiple storage locations. This network ia called a dsNet. Data-transformed slices are stored across multiple storage appliances called Slicestors in a logical container called a Vault. A Vault spans storage appliances based on the data reliability requirements and locations that comprise the dsNet. This technology is an alternative to RAID and replication.

Products

Awards

Since the creation of Cleversafe, it has collected numerous awards such as:

  • Chicago Innovation Awards 2008[3]
  • Wall Street Journal's 2008 Technology Innovation Award for Software[4]
  • 2007 City Lights Newcomer Award[5]
  • Horizon Award[6]

Open Source

From early on, Cleversafe has been a sponsor of an open source community. Cleversafe decided that by open sourcing their software, it would enable others to develop all kinds of applications and environments related to dispersed storage[7]. Cleversafe's open source software is released under the GNU General Public License.

  1. ^ "Cleversafe At a Glance". Cleversafe. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  2. ^ "Cleversafe and Partners Launch the First Commercial Dispersed Storage Network". Reuters. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  3. ^ "Chicago Innovation Awards". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  4. ^ "The 2008 Technology Innovation Awards". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  5. ^ "History of the CityLIGHTS Awards". Illinois I.T. Association CityLIGHTS. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  6. ^ "Special Report: 10 Cool Cutting-Edge Technologies on the Horizon Now". Computerworld. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  7. ^ "Why did Cleversafe decide to open source the Dispersed Storage software?". Cleversafe. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
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