Dive Brief:
- IBM said it plans to acquire object-based storage vendor Cleversafe, but terms of the agreement were not released.
- The purchase will give IBM's cloud business more flexibility and give its customers ways to store multi-media data. Cleversafe owns over 350 data storage patents.
- The Chicago-based company early on recognized that big data storage was going to need big data solutions — it offers a repository, backup, archive, collaboration and storage as a service.
Dive Insight:
IBM said the acquisition will tackle growing volumes of audio, video and images, particularly in the healthcare and entertainment industries.
Cleversafe's object storage technology offers more efficient storage of massive amounts of data and can also handle data-intensive workloads delivered via the cloud.
Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, said IBM will deliver Cleversafe solutions both as physical offerings and as services via its SoftLayer cloud, which translates to additional flexibility for customers.
