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Hightail Selects Cleversafe Object-Based Storage to Support Global File-Sharing
[November 19, 2014]

Hightail Selects Cleversafe Object-Based Storage to Support Global File-Sharing


CHICAGO --(Business Wire)--

Cleversafe Inc., the industry-leading object-based storage provider, today announced that Hightail Inc., a leading file-sharing service, selected the Cleversafe Dispersed Storage® Network (dsNet®) platform to support its private cloud environment, enabling the service provider to offer customers hyperscale storage. The partnership allows Hightail to easily, securely and cost-effectively store its customers' large and growing unstructured data files of images, videos and more.

With more than 45 million professionals across 193 countries using Hightail to share and control files remotely, Hightail found that its customer data was growing by more than a petabyte per month. When its former data storage system could no longer meet the company's hyperscale data storage needs without increasing dramatically in price, Hightail sought out an object-based storage provider that could cost-effectively scale to meet customer data demand.

"Cleversafe has helped Hightail remove cost from the equation and treat storage as if it was free. We don't want to participate in the race to the bottom of the pricing war and by treating storage as a commodity, we can focus on truly differentiated product features," said Rob Ruth, vice president of T operations at Hightail. "We're effectively increasing our storage footprint while decreasing budget and administrative overhead. The solution's ease of use allows us to operate without a dedicated storage team, making Cleversafe four to five times less expensive than our previous provider."



In addition to breakthrough economics and the ability to scale, Cleversafe's security and encryption capabilities are critical to Hightail and its customers - particularly to those in the financial, government and retail sectors that must meet strict data security standards and regulations, such as PCI (News - Alert) compliance. Not only is Cleversafe's solution inherently more secure than legacy storage systems that make full copies of information available in multiple locations, but also services like encryption, virus scanning and more no longer need to be managed separately as a result of the solution.

Hightail is also seeing efficiencies across the board. According to Ruth, his team spends half the time previously spent on administrative storage tasks. He also estimates that the company has reduced power consumption by more than thirty percent with Cleversafe.


"Ninety-eight percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on Hightail and we're honored that Hightail relies on Cleversafe to grow with those customers and keep their ever-expanding data safe," said Russ Kennedy, senior vice president of product strategy and customer solutions at Cleversafe. "We believe they are already seeing quantifiable results for their customers and we're looking forward to expanding our partnership with Hightail."

About Cleversafe, Inc.

Cleversafe has created a breakthrough technology that solves petabyte-and-beyond big data storage problems. This solution reduces 80 percent or more of the storage cost from 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].

About Hightail Inc.

Hightail, headquartered in Campbell, Calif., helps 45 million professionals around the world securely share and control files from anywhere. For more information, visit www.hightail.com.


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