Cleversafe Wins 2009 Storage Visions Award

CHICAGO, Illinois –- January 7, 2009 -- Cleversafe Inc., the leading provider of Dispersed Storage® technology, announced today that the company has been awarded a 2009 Storage Visions Conference Award in the Professional/Prosumer Storage Product category for its innovative approach to storing and archiving digital content.

Cleversafe’s technology avoids the inefficiency of traditional storage systems based on replication by dividing data into “slices” and dispersing them, via secure network connections, to multiple storage nodes on a Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet). Each individual slice contains too little information to be useful, but any threshold of the slices can be used to perfectly recreate the original data.  Moreover, the sum capacity of all the slices is significantly less than maintaining multiple copies of the original data, making data management easier and less expensive.

"The old storage paradigm of data replication is simply too expensive and too risky to allow organizations to effectively handle today’s digital content requirements,” said Chris Gladwin, president and CEO of Cleversafe. “We are honored that Storage Visions has recognized our dispersed storage technology – it’s an important validation of our commitment to spearheading the evolution of storage technology to keep pace with data growth.”

The Eighth Annual Storage Visions Conference, held January 6-7 in Las Vegas, features insightful sessions on digital storage in the professional media market as well as developments in smart and secure storage. 2009 marks the sixth year the Storage Visions Conference has awarded companies for visionary breakthroughs in digital storage. Other Storage Visions Award finalists included Intel Corp., SanDisk, Seagate and Samsung Semiconductor among others.
For more information about Cleversafe’s solutions, visit http://www.cleversafe.com/products/overview

About Cleversafe:

Cleversafe enables the world to confidently and cost-effectively store and distribute limitless amounts of data.  The company’s award-winning Dispersed Storage® technology solves the scalability, security and longevity problems of traditional storage methods based on replication.  Learn more about Cleversafe's storage solutions at www.cleversafe.com or www.cleversafe.org.

Media contact:

Lindsay Mecca
Page One PR, for Cleversafe
lindsay@pageonepr.com
415-321-2343