- Cleversafe
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Cleversafe, Inc. 
Type Privately held company Industry Dispersed Data Storage Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, USA Products Cleversafe Accesser
Cleversafe Manager
Cleversafe SlicestorRevenue Not reported Employees 40[1] Website www.cleversafe.com Cleversafe, Inc. is a privately held company based in the United States which is pioneering Dispersed Storage technology and software[2]. 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.
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History
The company was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2004 by S. Christopher Gladwin, the President and CEO of Cleversafe. Cleversafe received funding from venture capital firms including 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's current software release uses Cauchy-Reed-Solomon as its Information Dispersal Algorithm (IDA) for encoding data into slices. Data may also be optionally processed by any number of provided codecs which can perform operations such as encryption, compression, or adding message authentication. Once the data is fully processed, the slices are distributed via a Cleversafe designed protocol to multiple storage locations; this TCP/IP based protocol may optionally be secured using TLS.
Each storage location (site) typically will house a number of individual storage appliances known as Slicestors. The collection of appliances involved in processing, storing, or managing data is referred to as a dispersed storage network or dsNet in the Cleversafe nomenclature. Data stored in the dsNet is logically isolated into discrete containers called Vaults. Each Vault may have its own separate access controls, quota and data transformation and storage strategy. This technology is an alternative to traditional RAID and replication based storage systems.
Products
- Cleversafe Accesser
- Cleversafe Manager
- Cleversafe Slicestor
Awards
Cleversafe has been the recipient of several awards, including:
- Storage Visions 2009 Conference Professional/Prosumer System Award [3]
- Chicago Innovation Awards 2008[4]
- Wall Street Journal's 2008 Technology Innovation Award for Software[5]
- 2007 City Lights Newcomer Award[6]
- Horizon Award[7]
Open Source
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[8]. Cleversafe's open source software is released under the GNU General Public License. As of 2010-09-29 the source code and related forums have been removed from the web site.
See also
- BitVault
- Wuala
- Tahoe-LAFS
References
- ^ "Cleversafe At a Glance". Cleversafe. http://www.cleversafe.com/company/Company_Overview_Data_Storage_Technology. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ "Cleversafe and Partners Launch the First Commercial Dispersed Storage Network". Reuters. 2008-08-19. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS132255+19-Aug-2008+PRN20080819. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ "2009 Storage Visions Conference Announces Storage Visions Award Winners". Business Wire. http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20090107005947/en. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ "Chicago Innovation Awards". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/08_43/B4105chicago_innovation.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ Totty, Michael (2008-09-29). "The 2008 Technology Innovation Awards". Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122227003788371453.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ "History of the CityLIGHTS Awards". Illinois I.T. Association CityLIGHTS. http://www.itacitylights.com/history.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ "Special Report: 10 Cool Cutting-Edge Technologies on the Horizon Now". Computerworld. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1079326180;pp;5. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ "Why did Cleversafe decide to open source the Dispersed Storage software?". Cleversafe. http://www.cleversafe.org/faqs#_Toc176922784. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
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Categories:- Information technology companies of the United States
- Companies based in Chicago, Illinois
- Privately held companies based in Illinois
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