What the Analysts Say
“IDC believes that Cleversafe's unique approach and cost effectiveness will enable them to address the nascent (but fast growing) object based storage market successfully; as well as addressing the massive content needs expected by fast evolving Big Data related activities.”
Benjamin S. Woo, Program Vice President of IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems Research, IDC
“Cleversafe is clearly proving that they’re not a traditional technology provider and they understand the way that Big Data needs to be stored. What I’m most impressed with is their ability to think ahead and anticipate the need for cost-effective scalability.”
Terri McClure, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group
“Cleversafe demonstrates a clear lead.”
John Webster, Senior Partner of Evaluator Group
“With Cleversafe, it's totally automated.”
David Vellante, co-founder of The Wikibon Project
“Cleversafe uses the very nature of cloud computing to both protect and secure data. The cost of replication is cut by 75%, and the processing and management overheads of encryption are avoided.
David Floyer, CTO of The Wikibon Project
“Cleversafe, the storage specialist.”
Simon Robinson, 451 Group
“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
