Cleversafe Expands Dispersed Storage Network System

Cleversafe, Inc. announced the latest versions of its technology designed to address the ever-growing digital content storage challenge. Cleversafe introduced the dsNet Cabinet 2200 – its largest scale dispersed storage system to date – as well as new versions of its Accesser appliance and Slicestor Storage Servers.

dsNet 2200 Cabinet:
18 Slicestor 2200 appliances
2 Accesser appliances
1 Manager appliance
1 enterprise level Ethernet switch
432TB raw capacity per cabinet

Cleversafe dispersed storage solutions are ideal for customers looking to store a variety of content, from digital, to media, to large data objects, to sensitive information – in public or private cloud deployments, given its data security, integrity, and protection capabilities and the ability to store and distribute limitless amounts of data.

The new dsNet Cabinet 2200 is a turnkey solution with the ability to scale from terabytes to petabytes of storage – perfect for organizations that store large digital content files, such as videos, audio files and images. The dsNet Cabinet 2200 – an integrated rack which includes 18 Slicestor servers, two Accesser appliances, one dsNet Manager appliance, a 48-port multi-layer Ethernet switch, and 432 TB of storage capacity – was designed to address the needs of nearline and archive storage of digital content in a pre-configured solution that customers can manage and deploy across one to many data centers. The dsNet Cabinet 2200 also includes the Omnience Storage Management software, a browser-based application that provides comprehensive provisioning, fault management, and performance monitoring tools.

“Cleversafe’s storage dispersal technology provides a much more cost effective means of achieving data resilience and eliminates the complexities of RAID management and recovery,” said David Vellante, co-founder and chief research advocate, Wikibon. “In addition, the company’s SecureSlice and PerfectBits technologies provide a profoundly simpler way to achieve data assurance. These capabilities are critical for secure, multi-tenant, cloud-scale computing and Wikibon is seeing adoption in both government and commercial applications.”

Additionally, Cleversafe has expanded
its dsNet Storage Network System
including the following new components:

• Accesser 2100 appliance: The Accesser dispersed storage router divides data into a user-defined number of slices using Information Dispersal Algorithms (IDAs), disperses and retrieves data throughout the network, and distributes the slices to the Slicestor storage appliances. New enhancements include expanded connectivity options such as 10Gb/s Ethernet, and ECC memory for improved data integrity.
• Slicestor 2100 and 2200 Storage Servers: The Slicestor servers store slices from the Accesser and can be deployed in a single rack in a data center or distributed around the globe in a multi-site environment. New enhancements include utilizing 2TB drives, and an integrated USB Flash Drive for the operating system that provides improved availability, and simplified drive replacement. The new 2100 servers now offer 8TB capacity per 1U box, while the 2200 servers provide 24TB capacity per 2U box, offering customers more capacity per cabinet, lower total cost of ownership and a reduction in power and cooling requirements.

“With 2TB drives and storage systems swell to multi-terabytes to petabytes, using Information Dispersal Algorithms for tunable data protection is now at an inflection point in the market,” said Chris Gladwin, CEO, Cleversafe. “Our resilient storage solutions are a perfect fit for organizations that needed a flexible way to store their valuable data, particularly within the cloud, as we can deliver on making data always available, bit-perfect, and reliable over its lifetime.”

Cleversafe’s technology avoids the cost and inefficiency of traditional replication-based storage systems that simply cannot scale to petabytes cost effectively. Data is ‘sliced’ into thousands of combinations to bit-perfectly recreate digital content via secure network connections to multiple storage nodes on a dsNet system. Users experience 100 percent data protection and accessibility because each slice is unrecognizable as the original content, and useless without access to a threshold number of slices.

How Dispersal works