[Colloquium] CS TALK: Andrew Batptist, Cleversafe on May 18, 2012

[Katie Casey]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Date: Friday, May 18, 2012
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Place: RY 277

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Title: Cleversafe Dispersed Storage Architecture
Speaker:  Andrew Baptist, Lead Software Architect, Cleversafe

Background:

Cleversafe utilizes patented object-based storage solution leverages
information dispersal algorithms coupled with encryption to expand,
virtualize, transform, slice and disperse data across a network of
storage nodes. This limitless scale storage system stores data much
more efficiently than other traditional storage systems that need to
maintain multiple copies of the same data, Cleversafe’s information
dispersal architecture uses a single instance of data with a minimal
expansion of the data in order to maintain data integrity and
availability.
As a result, clients experience none of the associated incremental
costs found in traditional RAID and replication methods, which makes
it ideally scalable to the exabyte and beyond level. Cleversafe’s
slice-and-disperse technology delivers significantly higher levels of
confidentiality, data integrity and information availability than
alternative architectures.