Cleversafe has been recognized as a leader by Wikibon industry veterans with the Wikibon CTO award for the Best Storage Technology Innovations of 2009. Here’s what Wikibon had to say about Cleversafe:

Wikibon believes that this type of technology is a good strategic fit for cloud storage, especially for archive and media data. The overhead for splitting it up in to 16 slices is 25%, making it half the price of a traditional protected storage. The alternative is no backup at all for cloud storage, an approach being more popular but harder to detect.

Cleversafe introduced dispersed storage technology commercially in 2008 after three years of research and development. This award validates the enhancements Cleversafe has made since product launch. Products that meet cloud requirements are not going to be built overnight, and Cleversafe has demonstrated diligent and progressing efforts to serve the requirements that a distributed, multi-tenancy storage platform demand.

We are also pleased with our product portfolio progress. Look for announcements in the next month from us that further validate Cleversafe as a leader in massively scalable systems designed with inherent data security, particularly for data in the cloud.

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Other winners include Storwize, and Unisys.