Awards & Top 10 Lists

	February 2010	Wikibon CTO Award For The Best Storage Technology Innovations of 2009
	May 2009	Cleversafe named a 2009 Best of Interop Finalist.
	April 2009	Cleversafe has been selected by: The InformationWeek Startup 50: Business Technology Companies To Watch
	January 2009	Finalist: 2008 Storage Products of the Year
	January 2009	Storage Vision Award Winner
	January 2009	The Open source 50: The Best of the Best Cleversafe ranked #15.
	October 2008	Chicago Innovation Awards Winner
	October 2008	Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Software
	June 2008	eWEEK Excellence Awards VIII: Storage Software Award
	Aug 2007	Horizon Awards: 10 Cool Cutting Edge Technologies “Wow Factor - Slice-and-Dice Storage”
	Aug 2007	2007 CityLIGHTS Awards: Newcomer Award
	April 2007	10 Hot Security Startups
	Mar 2007	Top 10 Startups to Watch
	Aug 2006	10 Open source companies to watch

What the Analysts Say

"Enterprises are challenged to deliver cost effective solutions that provide suitable levels of security, availability and performance for ever-growing volumes of unstructured data. Cleversafe leverages innovative technology to disperse exabytes of digital content across multiple data center locations, reducing the dependency on expensive enterprise arrays and data replication software. Additionally, dsNet is capable of providing higher levels of availability and recoverability (self healing) than point to point replication environments."

Bob Laliberte, Enterprise Strategy Group, October, 2008

"Quite possibly the most disruptive technology since the emergence of RAID”

John Webster, Illuminata Inc., Spring, 2008

 

“This approach could completely change the way storage administrators conduct their daily operations.’”

John Webster, Illuminata Inc., August, 2007, Computerworld Horizon Awards

"What they need is to use whatever storage they have to build a back end that is infinitely secure, reliable and scalable...I can't imagine any company not wanting to talk with them.”

Michael Dortch, Robert Frances Group Inc, August 2007, Computerworld article

“Cleversafe's slice-and-disperse storage technology is pretty unique in the marketplace. I don't think that anyone else is doing this. In an environment where security is sacrosanct, this makes a lot of sense.”

Clay Ryder, an analyst at The Sageza Group Inc. August 2007, Computerworld article

“Cleversafe's technology provides fast, reliable, highly available storage, but it does it in a unique way. While most storage solutions offer reliability through redundancy—making copies of data across disks, arrays, or geographic locations —Cleversafe storage is distributed in the true sense of the word.

What's more, it eliminates the need for expensive, high-end storage equipment. Because the reliability and availability is built into the design of the storage middleware itself, a Cleversafe grid can be built with cost-effective commodity hardware.” 

Neil McAllister, January 2007, InfoWorld article

"Cleversafe dsNet is quite possibly the most disruptive thing to appear in the storage market since the emergence of RAID."

John Webster, January 2008, Illuminata Perspectives article