IBM Acquires Cleversafe

IBM has acquired Cleversafe to improve its hybrid cloud servIce and boost object storage to the hybrid cloud.

IBM has recently taken a measure to improve its offerings. It has decided to acquire a Chicago-based object storage expert, Cleversafe, for an unannounced sum in a move that would help it further to enhance its hybrid cloud service. Big Blue has signed a conclusive contract to obtain the developer of devices and object-based storage applications, which would let IBM hybrid cloud clients use a wealth of optional features.

IBM news revealed that an employee, Robert LeBlanc, stated, "Massive digital transformation is underway as organizations increasingly turn to cloud computing for innovative ways to manage more complex business operations and increasing volumes of data in a secure and effective way. Cleversafe, a pioneer in object storage, will add to our efforts to help clients overcome these challenges by extending and strengthening our cloud storage strategy, as well as our portfolio."

IBM news today affirmed that Cleversafe has been established since 2004, and its on-premise object-based storing solutions allow companies to measure storage exabytes in a way that does not cost much, due to the type of the object-storage utilized.

Leader amongst Cleversafe’s features is its Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet), which integrates on-premise storage features to customers and service providers with lower costs, huge scale dynamic records, and disorganized data content stores. Both of them would become a part of the IBM cloud.

IBM Breaking News reported that customers employing IBM SoftLayer cloud facilities and corporation’s BlueMix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), for the time being, would be allowed to design softwares employing the enterprise’s information record and content repository.

Apart from this, IBM is offered access to 350 patents that are associated with the Cleversafe’s on-premise object-based store and presently unable to determine whether the dsNet supplier‘s workers would be shifting to the Big Blue as a part of the plan.

IBM has claimed that as a large number of companies digitally transform their operations, problems such as discovering a mutual ground between cloud storing solutions and on-premises data management and instantaneous growth of disorganized data arise. It intends to solve these problems with the attainment of Cleversafe, along with the object storage technology, which would allow tons of information to be stored more effectively without conceding information-intensive tasks performed on the cloud.

This is in reference to International Data Corporation’s estimations, which have predicted that 80% of new cloud softwares would be big-data intensive. The rumor states that acquisition would be finalized before the end of this year.