Future Selected Cleversafe

Future plc
announced it has selected Cleversafe Inc.
storage solution for its massive archive of magazine titles and assets in
addition to housing its growing digital portfolio.

The company selected Cleversafe after conducting a technology search for
a storage vendor that could ensure the company’s data integrity and resiliency
while scaling exponentially as the company continues to create new content in
emerging mediums.

Future, creator of multi-media brands, offers over 200 specialty publications, mobile
apps, events and websites – attracting more than 50 million unique visitors to
its websites per month. With the growth of its digital portfolio, it saw
its need for storing new asset types, such as video, games, and mobile apps,
and larger formats for graphics and digital images reach a critical threshold.

"We
needed to find a solution that would allow us to store our entire portfolio and
image archive in a much more cost-effective manner and maintain those assets at
their highest resiliency. That became increasingly challenging as the company
was faced with limited server room space, and a desire to lower power usage,"
said Sam Eaton, director of web technology for Future. "Out of the gate Cleversafe became an
important technology partner and has helped Future achieve its cost objectives
with a solid, well implemented storage strategy."

Cleversafe leverages information dispersal
algorithms to virtualize, slice, transform and disperse data across a network
of storage nodes. This approach to ingesting and storing data
makes data more inherently secure. Most
traditional storage solutions also require multiple copies of data to be stored
to ensure data reliability. Cleversafe reduces the number of copies required to
store data, improving physical space requirements. With Cleversafe’s information
dispersal technology, Future realized its goal to secure all of its multi-media
assets across its growing global business and was able to make much better use
of its physical space and overall disk capacity.

"Future’s
business is based on serving communities of enthusiasts who want to learn,
interact and engage in topics that they are passionate about. Being able to
access Future’s content at any time and through a wide variety of mediums is an
important part of their daily lives and critical to the success of Future’s
business," said Russ Kennedy, VP of product strategy, marketing and customer
solutions, Cleversafe. "For many
companies storage of digital assets is an area of massive growth. Many more
companies are looking to leverage multi-media in today’s social and business
landscape. To do that successfully requires a well thought out strategy, such
as the one Future put in place with Cleversafe, to meet its needs today and
well into the future."

Cleversafe’s object-based storage solution
is 100 million times more reliable than traditional RAID-based systems and it
doesn’t rely on replication to protect information. Its information dispersal
capabilities reduce storage costs up to 90% while meeting compliance
requirements and ensuring protection against data loss. With the combination of
limitless scale, reliable storage and efficient analytics in the same platform,
Cleversafe is solving the challenging big data problems for customers in an efficient manner.