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Cleversafe Simplifies Object Storage Deployment with New Features and PartnershipsCHICAGO --(Business Wire)-- Cleversafe, Inc., the industry leading object-based storage provider, today announced new partnerships and initiatives that provide businesses with greater flexibility to help simplify the deployment and integration of object-based storage into their existing environments. Cleversafe's latest hardware and interface options and new software features are designed to provide companies with greater options to help solve Web-scale data storage challenges. "As corporate infrastructures become more complex, CIOs and CTOs must consider options that support industry standards and that afford the most flexibility to meet their workload and application requirements," said Russ Kennedy, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Customer Solutions for Cleversafe. "By extending our hardware offerings and enhancing our software, we are making it easier for our customers to implement an object storage strategy that solves their most pressing data storage challenges today and in the future." Tweet This: .@Cleversafe Simplifies Object Storage Deployment with New Features and Partnerships Cleversafe expands hardware options with HP Cleversafe has certified the HP ProLiant SL4540 Generation 8 (Gen8) server as a Slicestor® appliance. Cleversafe has also certified the Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet®) Manager and Accesser® on the HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server. Cleversafe's dsNet technology with HP servers simplifies the management of large scale data repositories and provides the availability and reliability required to handle customers' most critical digital assets. The combined platform delivers a validated turnkey solution that is easily installed and optimized for Web-scale storage, substantially reducing cost in time and resources to put a solution into service. The integrated dsNet Manager and Accesser solutions for HP servers also simplify system deployment and configuration while expediting the integration of applications and workloads with object storage. "Enterprises are struggling to manage the data explosion generated by cloud, mobile and social - as well as the growth of unstructured data - in a cost effective, secure manner," said Yogi Barman, Director of Strategic Alliances, HP Servers. "The HP ProLiant SL4540 and DL360p Gen8 servers combined ith Cleversafe's dsNet object-based storage technology enables clients to address their growing data challenges with a highly reliable solution that can easily scale out to meet Petabyte-scale data demand without impacting performance." Cleversafe enhances software capabilities with new ClevOS 3.2 Cleversafe's latest software release, ClevOS 3.2, enhances the flexibility and capabilities of the dsNet system to ensure customers' object-based storage implementations are able to meet their unique business needs. ClevOS 3.2 adds the ability for a customer's preferred monitoring application to access the dsNet statistics used by Cleversafe's dsNet Manager, via SNMP or a RESTful http interface. ClevOS 3.2 also integrates with syslog, the industry standard for computer message logging, providing businesses with greater flexibility around system monitoring. To help customers who have an IT policy that requires the separation of network traffic related to different functions, ClevOS 3.2 provides a network traffic management capability that allows traffic for each dsNet appliance to be routed on up to three separate networks. In addition to expanded system monitoring and management capabilities, ClevOS 3.2 expands upon existing support for Active Directory by adding support for LDAP directory services. With more options for integrated directory services, ClevOS 3.2 simplifies the user authentication process on both the dsNet Manager and dsNet vaults containing customer data. Cleversafe simplifies cloud integration with industry standard interfaces With ClevOS 3.2, Cleversafe has added an OpenStack Swift (News - Alert) compatible API to its list of supported APIs, which also includes Amazon S3, HDFS and a Cleversafe specific Simple Object API. Support for OpenStack Swift, S3 and HDFS increases compatibility with existing storage applications and allows customers developing their own storage application the option of using the object API that meets their specific business requirements. About Cleversafe Inc. Cleversafe has created breakthrough technology that solves petabyte and beyond Big Data storage problems. This solution drives up to 90 percent of the storage cost out of the business while enabling secure and reliable global access and collaboration. The world's largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe. To learn more about Cleversafe and its solutions, please visit www.cleversafe.com, call 312-423-6640 or email us at [email protected]. Resources Cleversafe Products: http://www.cleversafe.com/products/flexibility-of-choice Cleversafe's Technology - How it Works: http://www.cleversafe.com/overview/how-cleversafe-works Cleversafe News: http://www.cleversafe.com/news/press-releases/ Cleversafe Videos: http://www.cleversafe.com/library/video-library Cleversafe on Twitter (News - Alert): http://twitter.com/Cleversafe Cleversafe on Facebook (News - Alert): http://facebook.com/Cleversafe Cleversafe on LinkedIn (News - Alert): http://linkedin.com/company/Cleversafe
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