Cleversafe Delivers New Features To Deploy And Manage Cloud Storage: Page 2 of 2

Starting price for a configuration for 64 TB raw capacity (based on using 2 TB drives) is $43,400 for software licenses only, and $73,000 for bundled hardware and software, both at street pricing. Pricing includes a Manager appliance, two Accesser routers, and eight Slicestor storage nodes. "Organizations continue to seek reliable, secure, and efficient ways to store their data," said Noemi Greyzdorf, Research Manager, Storage Software, IDC. "Cleversafe delivers scalability, security, and adherence to SLAs in the data center. It also arms service providers with expanded integration capabilities offering ease of use and key insight into system health."

Cleversafe's Dispersed Storage technology has been in the market for more than two years, seamlessly and securely divides data into slices, and then disperses them to multiple storage nodes typically across three or four data centers. Each individual slice is unrecognizable as data and therefore inherently secure, whereas a defined threshold of slices can be used to bit-perfectly recreate the original data. This approach replaces costly replication with only a 30-60 percent storage expansion and yet has even higher availability than four replicated copies.