"Internet 2 went through a period of testing," Gladwin states. "This shows the power of the Internet business model, in which you buy from one provider but have access to everything."
Neither the partners nor Cleversafe are making public the terms of their development arrangements. But at least two DSPs, The Planet Internet Services and ViUX Hosting, plan to make Cleversafe's grid part of their future services.
"ViUX Hosting is interested in the Cleversafe DSP Foundation Partner Program because of the security, reliability and cost-effectiveness of this particular storage approach, in contrast to the current tape and disk-based storage systems that we now use to backup our servers," said Jonathan Smith, ViUX's president, in a prepared statement.
Will it work? The jury's still out. Much depends of course on price and just how well the new network actually functions, and on whether hosters are going to trust it with their traffic. And judging by the slow adoption of grid technologies in general, that could take awhile. (See To Grid or Not to Grid.)
Still, if Cleversafe succeeds, even in part, the results could be surprising, particularly given the interest of Google, Microsoft, and other major players in large-scale storage technologies. We're keeping an eye on this one.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
