Cleversafe Partners With Datatility

Cleversafe, Inc. announced a partnership with Datatility, Inc., provider of data center services including essential solutions for storage and networking, to create Hydra Cloud.

This multi-functional cloud storage platform, based on Cleversafe’s patented Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet) technology, provides customers with a tiered public cloud storage solution to best align storage needs with operating costs.

Among the company’s growing customer base of financial services, media, legal, and healthcare companies and government contractors, Datatility found that nearly 80% of data residing on primary storage in their users’ data centers had not been accessed in more than 60 days. With the rising costs of traditional storage in stark opposition to the fast-paced rate of data growth, Datatility realized its customers could benefit by migrating their data to a tiered public cloud storage solution using object storage for cost savings.

“Within the data center environment the storage of older data is a huge issue,” said Jan Rosenberg, CEO, Datatility. “With data growth expanding 10x every five years, traditional storage architectures are just not a viable option any longer. They can’t scale and they’re too expensive,”

“In our evaluation of solutions that could take on this problem effectively and scale to meet future needs, Cleversafe had the most advanced technology solution of all the companies we assessed, including the ability to scale to meet our customers’ needs, extremely high levels of reliability, and virtually unhackable security. Cleversafe also delivered a level of support and cost savings that no other vendor could match,” he said.

“Datatility’s multi-tenant approach required us to do a few things differently. We worked hand-in-hand with them every step of the way as they developed a completely new business model to meet the needs of customers that were feeling the pressure of unstructured data growth but couldn’t access the cloud in a way that was effective, efficient or affordable,” said Russ Kennedy, SVP of product strategy and customer solutions, Cleversafe. “Together, we enabled efficient storage tiering, low TCO and multi-functional data center features. Now and well into the future Datatility’s customers won’t have to worry about outgrowing or not being able to afford their storage needs.”

Hydra Cloud is comprised of object-based storage, cloud gateways and networks that provide secure, reliable and cost-effective ways to store and protect customer data at all times – regardless of what disasters happen inside or outside customers’ data centers. Using Dispersed Storage solution as a foundation, Datatility was able to create a solution that features ultimate security through Cleversafe’s SecureSlice encryption, reliability by dispersing objects across multiple data centers, 100% uptime through geographical data dispersal, limitless scalability, fail-safe network optimization and data mobility.

Hydra Cloud will solve customers’ mounting storage challenges at a cost that’s three to five times less expensive than primary storage solutions while at the same time offering superior levels of reliability and security. Dispersed Storage solution eliminates the need for replication, lowering costs associated with storage overhead and management. And by applying information dispersal technology to slice and disperse data, single points of failure or vulnerability are eliminated, a key consideration for Datatility’s large enterprise and government contractor clients.

Datatility offers cloud gateways that make it easy for customers to load and access data in the Cleversafe dsNet system. Using these multi-functional gateways, Hydra Cloud supports a range of functionality including active archiving, local and offsite backup, and file collaboration.

Over the next two to three years, Datatility will look to scale to multi-petabytes of storage using Cleversafe’s solution to accommodate the data growth of their customers.