IBM recently acquired Cleversafe, a Chicago-based company that provides web-scale storage solutions scaling to exabyte capacities. Cleversafe's dispersed storage network software manages the storage and retrieval of encrypted and erasure coded data slices across industry standard hardware. The acquisition will allow IBM to integrate Cleversafe's offerings into its hybrid cloud solutions, providing businesses flexible and scalable storage deployment options on-premise, in dedicated private clouds, and in IBM's public cloud.

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Cleversafe, an IBM company
November 2015
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IBM recently acquired Cleversafe,
Inc., a Chicago, IL-based, privately held
company providing web-scale storage
solutions for cloud and on-premise,
scaling up to exabyte capacity and
beyond
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Cleversafe at a Glance
Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet®) Object Storage software
 Manager component provides comprehensive operation, configuration,
monitoring and maintenance functionality
 Accesser® component the object interface to the application over a variety of
storage interfaces including Industry Standard APIs
 Slicestor® component software manages the storage of object data in the
form of erasure coded slices, across a network of storage nodes.
 Deployed as on-premise software on industry standard and qualified hardware
or as a pre-integrated appliance
Offerings
 Founded in 2004. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois
 Enterprise storage provider for content scaling to exabytes and beyond
 Employs 210+ personnel, over 100 dedicated to software team
 Owns 350+ patents with over 500 more filed
 Global clients in financial services, insurance, media, communications,
government, intelligence, life sciences/healthcare. Global 1000 or massively
data-intense - US, Japan, UK, Germany
 Service providers
 Client references
Customers
OrganizationOrganization
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 Increasing revenue and lowering costs requires a holistic data strategy
for next generation mobile, social, cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT)
applications
- Object storage is the emerging standard for unstructured data
- Key requirements include flexibility of deployment options, ease of
manageability and consistency at web-scale
 The combination of IBM and Cleversafe can address a broad set of
workloads with an expansive set of object-based solutions and :
- help deliver enhanced on-premise storage options for large scale
active archives and unstructured data stores
- offer leading1 object storage-as-a-service in dedicated private cloud,
public cloud—or hybrid cloud—implementations
- provide consistent, scalable, cost-efficient hybrid deployment options
making it easier for clients to scale and right-size their data
deployments
IBM and Cleversafe - meeting client’s evolving
storage needs
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Web-scale requires a new storage architecture
Objects 1000x larger
 HD videos/images/audio
 Genomic/seismic data
 Internet of Things/social media
Large and growing storage requirement
Up to exabytes with always-on availability and zero-touch,
carrier-grade security
Legacy storage won’t scale and is less cost-effective
 Traditional storage requires copies, replication, mirroring and
disaster recovery (DR) to protect data—Cleversafe can help
eliminate those requirements, and can help lower both cost and
complexity
 Can also reduce requirements for power, cooling and management
for lower TCO
 Cleversafe provides web-scale performance/capacity at any time
with zero downtime operations
Multiple Interface: customer deployment flexibility
Industry standard object API compatibility
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Cleversafe supports a broad set of use cases
Entrust business
critical data to one of
the most reliable and
scalable storage
platforms
Fuel workplace
productivity across the
globe with distributed
access to valuable content
Deliver new levels of
storage capacity and
availability with
carrier-grade security
Get easy, scalable back-
up and always-on data
availability for
dependable recover and
lower infrastructure costs
Keep content
accessible with
scalable, reliable and
long-term data
archive
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Cleversafe dsNet Storage System
dsNet Manager
 Fault management
 Reporting
 Provisioning
 Performance monitoring
 Storage configuration
Accesser®
 Slices data
 Disperses data
 Retrieves data
 Stateless
Slicestor®
 Storage for slices
 Single- or multi-site
 Capacity-based pricing
 Rebuilds slices
Scalability
 Multiple 100PB+ customers
 Shared nothing architecture
Security
 Zero-touch, carrier-grade, with built-
in encryption
Availability
 More reliable than traditional
storage systems, without complexity
Manageability
 Multiples more data per
administrator
 Software-defined, hardware-aware
Economics
 Eliminates cost of copies,
replication, mirroring and DR
 Reduction in storage costs
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Cleversafe solutions have proven successful in
global, cross-industry enterprises
Business requirement Results
Major League Baseball
Organization
Update the team’s system for
storing, protecting and accessing
all of the video data and other
information their coaches and
other employees use to make
critical decisions every day
 Reduced administration time
 Up-to-date data, backed up and replicated across all sites
 Improved access to the data through a simple log-in
 Scalability to meet future needs
 Data available to coaches, players, marketing, press and minor league
affiliates
 IT staff free to focus on innovation
Major Japanese telecoms operator
A highly reliable and secure
solution for protecting their
customers’ mobile data plus a
flexible, multi-tenant storage as a
service offering for their enterprise
customers
 Solutions supports millions of mobile subscribers
 Highly reliable and available solution that tolerates site outages
without expensive copies of data
 Savings over original storage
 Flexibility to offer multiple services to their enterprise customers
Leading European Home
Entertainment and Telecoms
A secure solution for their massive
storage and immediate access
needs with growing storage needs
 Zero-touch security for all content
 Lower data center costs with improved service levels
 Always on availability; capacity provisioning
in minutes
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How the Cleversafe platform works
CONTENT
TRANSFORMATION
Cleversafe software
encrypts, slices and
applies Information
Dispersal Algorithms
otherwise known as
erasure coding
policies to the data.
Data Ingest
Accesser
Software
Storage Nodes
Site 1 Site 2 Site 3
Physical Distribution
Slices are distributed to separate
disks and industry standard x86
hardware across geographic
locations.
Data Retrieval
Storage Nodes
Reliable Retrieval
An operator defined subset of
slices is needed to retrieve data
bit perfectly in real time.
Site 1 Site 2 Site 3
BENEFITS
The level of
resiliency is fully
customizable
resulting in a
massively reliable
and efficient way to
store data at scale
as opposed to RAID
and replication
techniques.
Accesser
Software
Slicestor
Software

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Feature superiority
24x7 Operation – No downtime during software upgrades, hardware
refreshes, and in the face of disk, node, and site failures.
Security - Government grade security with inherent key management.
Scalability – Scale performance and/or capacity at any time with no
downtime to operations
Efficiency – Less raw storage means less power, cooling and floors pace
resulting in low TCO
Manageability– No RAID sets or replication schemes to manage. Manage
upwards of 25PBs with a single Full Time Employee

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Highly scalable and flexible deployment options

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SecureSlice – Data at-rest or in-flight confidentiality
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System management – from a single pane of glass
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Monitor
• Event monitoring via SNMPv3, email alerts
or event console
Configure
• Create Storage containers
• Select different IDAs to meet requirements
Security
• AD Integration
• LDAP
• Access Key
• IP Restrictions
•
Maintenance
• ‘Rolling Upgrade’ with no downtime
• Log collection, troubleshooting, reports
Web-Based Access RBAC Support
Provisioning API Available
Administration
• System configuration options
• Preferences, TLS, CA

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Deployable on-premise, dedicated or public cloud
Enhance IBM Spectrum Storage™ with:
 A low cost, high scale content repository in addition to
existing high performance file and object offering
 An additional backup choice for data protection and
recovery
 An additional archive option
Aligned to IBM hybrid cloud strategy
Deployment flexibility of software, appliance or hybrid cloud
SoftLayer® object storage services
with hosted object-storage cloud,
including industry standard APIs
Private Cloud
Dedicated
Public Cloud
Public
Local
(on-premise)
Hybrid Cloud Apps
Industry Standard APIs
Cleversafe technology
OpenStack
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Hybrid deployment

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IBM and Cleversafe provide
Hybrid /
Cloud
On
Premise
Appliance
From the smallest set of
objects to billions of files
and exabytes of capacity,
IBM has a storage system
to fit your needs.
A pre-provisioned set
of optimized hardware
and software for “plug-
n-play” usage inside a
customers datacenter.
Leverage on-premise
data, the elasticity and
cost benefits of the
cloud using the same
API, low maintenance
and reliability.

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Summary
 “Data” is the new natural resource, and IBM is committed to
supporting a comprehensive suite of storage solutions for
our clients
 IBM and Cleversafe capabilities can help businesses cost-
effectively embrace the growth in data—particularly
unstructured content—for next generation mobile, social,
cloud, and IoT applications
 IBM will infuse Cleversafe offerings and technology into our
on-premise software-defined storage and cloud solutions,
offering businesses unparalleled hybrid cloud flexibility
 Cleversafe will continue to be available for on-premise
deployments as well as within dedicated object storage
deployments on SoftLayer
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More information
 Visit IBM at ibm.com
 Visit Cleversafe at Cleversafe.com
 Read the press release at
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/48027.wss
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