Partnership Agreement Between Ericsson and Cleversafe

Cleversafe, Inc. announced its new partnership with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson) as the storage platform provider for the new Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage solution.

The next-generation data center infrastructure solution provides telecom operators the ability to offer cloud storage solutions, addressing security and governance concerns that, until now, have slowed the adoption of cloud by the world’s largest enterprises.

With Cleversafe providing data security, availability and efficiency to the Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage solution, telecom operators can deliver trusted cloud storage services businesses.

With the growth in data within the enterprise – from user-generated to application-generated to machine-generated data – enterprises are facing a challenge to address their storage needs. Not only do they need to scale their environments to new levels, enterprises must do so with heightened security, 24×7 availability and new levels of economic efficiency. Since its inception, Cleversafe has taken a different approach to address these requirements.

Ericsson’s Secure Cloud Storage solution is intended to fulfill specific enterprise IT needs around the secure management of data and storage resources. Cleversafe’s web-scale platform brings carrier-grade security to the multi-tenant software architecture that the category demands. Coupled with nines nines of reliability and 15 times greater efficiency than traditional approaches, the platform provides the Ericsson Secure Cloud Storage solution with a scalable offering for telecom operators and enterprises looking to conquer their storage challenges.

“This partnership with Ericsson arms telecom operators with the secure web-scale storage solutions that they require,” said John Morris, president and CEO, Cleversafe. “Considering their telecommunications networks are seen as the most scalable and reliable in the world, we are very pleased to partner with Ericsson for their Secure cloud Storage solution.“

The agreement marks Cleversafe’s further growth into the telecommunications industry and complements its market position as the go-to web-scale platform and share leader in the general object-storage industry. Its platform has been deployed across enterprises and telecom providers with storage requirements at a petabyte scale and beyond. The Ericsson partnership expands Cleversafe’s distribution network.

This collaboration will provide a secure, scalable and reliable cloud storage solution with a unified user experience, enabling efficiency in day-to-day operations.

“Cleversafe was the clear choice when we looked for a web-scale storage platform to serve at the core of our solution,” said Jason Hoffman, head of cloud technology, Ericsson. “Ericsson’s Cloud storage solution can now offer PB and beyond scalability, maximum efficiency and carrier-grade security that our customers value, all within a policy-based environment to maximize data security and integrity as well as ease solution management requirements.“

Ericsson’s Secure Cloud Storage solution was unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.