Cleversafe Builds Solution Network Partnerships

Businesses today are challenged to
provide their end users with complete storage solution.

Today those requirements have grown to
include always-available access to information, ways to tier,
retrieve and store content, backup and archive data for DR and BC,
and to meet all governance and compliance requirements. To address
these mounting challenges, Cleversafe
Inc. announced the formation of the Cleversafe
Solution Network designed to provide customers with an ecosystem
offering end-to-end storage solutions to address business
requirements now and well into the future.

"Innovation, execution and
technology leadership are at the center of everything we do. The
formation of The Cleversafe Solution Network carries that mission
forward," said Russ Kennedy, VP of product strategy,
marketing and customer solutions, Cleversafe.

"We
recognize the benefits that joint technology partnerships can bring
to customers and so we’ve engaged with ‘best-in-class’ providers to
build our Solution Network," said Kennedy. "Together
we’ll solve today’s storage challenges, and build new business
opportunities and long-term partnerships that will enable us to
deliver comprehensive, proven technology solutions to our shared
markets."

"Customers inherently buy
storage platforms to store data from a wide variety of applications,
all focused on delivering business value. The problem is that not all
application vendors are interoperable or are integrated in such a way
that companies can easily fold their storage strategy together to
solve the challenges associated with today’s data growth,"
said Deni Connor, founding analyst at Storage
Strategies NOW. "What Cleversafe has done with its
Solution Network is to gather all of the industry vendors that are
most relevant to customers today and that collectively offer an easy
and very direct path to be able to adopt an object-storage strategy."

Cleversafe’s Solution Network
consists of partners providing:

• Cloud Interface:

Partners
including Gladinet, Mezeo, Panzura, Solid Instance, and WebDrive from
South River Technologies provide cloud access to customer’s
applications, while enabling customers to take advantage of
Cleversafe’s storage system for cloud storage.

• Content Management:

Today’s
businesses run 24/7. To be most effective, employees are embracing
new technologies for collaboration. They’re sharing content in
virtualized environments and accessing that information from a
variety of mobile devices and workstations. At the same time,
employers are charged with safeguarding certain content in order to
meet compliance guidelines. Content management partners, such as
DeJarnette Research Systems, Microsoft SharePoint and Panzura, enable
customers to manage content while taking advantage of Cleversafe’s
storage platform to scale and support their data requirements.

• Big Data
  Analytics:

Partners including Cloudera and IBM provide customers
the ability to analyze large data sets and perform
analytics-typically using Hadoop or an equivalent distributed data
analysis application.

• Systems Integrators:

Solution
Network Systems Integrators such as Lockheed Martin provide
implementation and associated professional services for the Federal
and Defense industries.

• Backup:

In order to
maintain the function of backup and protect information for DR
while maintaining BC Cleversafe has teamed and integrated with
vendors CommVault and Symantec.

• File Access and Tiered Storage:

The need to store, access and manage large-scale storage sets is
becoming critical as more data is accessed more often. Working with
File Access and cloud gateway vendor companies such as Panzura and
QStar Technologies, Cleversafe’s object-based dispersed storage
system can assist users and administrators to store, search and
retrieve data within an archive, while maintaining availability of
data.

• OSs:

At their core, OSs
provide a context within which programs can be created and run. They
are a fundamental component to any infrastructure environment whether
physical or virtual. Cleversafe’s OS partners include Microsoft and
VMware, two of the most significant OS organizations to ensure that
customers can deploy solutions, expand their service offerings and
extend their environments to meet the demands of their users.

• Network Optimization:

In order
to move more data across data centers and to remote office locations
while maintaining application performance, Cleversafe has teamed with
partners like Riverbed and F5 to provide load balancing, big data
traffic management and WAN optimization. The result is Cleversafe and
its Network Optimization partners are bridging the gap and moving
from traditional to dynamic infrastructures by increasing the
flexibility between users and resources and enabling IT organizations
to scale their storage solutions and maintain network performance.

• Hardware OEMs and Technologies:

Cleversafe’s partners in this area includes solutions to deliver the
highest levels of performance. Partners including Intel and Seagate,
deliver the physical components and associated hardware to provide
customers with the platform and infrastructure they need to deploy
and utilize Cleversafe’s dsNet storage solution.

In addition to the industry advantages
offered by collaborating with Cleversafe, the company’s Solution
Network includes a ‘self-certification’ that ensures third-party
application interoperability and support; providing assurance to
customers of a solution that meets or exceeds their operational
needs.