Cleversafe to Discuss Security in the Cloud at the Global Information Infrastructure Commission Annual Meeting 2010

WASHINGTON, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleversafe Inc., the leader in resilient storage solutions ideally suited for storage clouds and massive digital archives, announced that CEO Chris Gladwin will be participating in a panel at the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. on Friday, May 28, 2010.

The panel, "Security on the Cloud – more or less secure than behind your firewall?" will also include industry leaders from Accenture and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and will be moderated by Michael R. Nelson, Visiting Professor, Internet Studies, Communication, Culture and Technology Program from Georgetown University.

The 2010 annual meeting will focus overall on Internet security, and will also include a keynote address by Vint Cerf from Google, a presentation on critical infrastructure protection from Alan Paller, director of research, SANS Institute, and a second panel discussion on "Internet Protocol - Ensuring a Secure Environment" with industry luminaries from Huawei, Electronic Warfare Associates, and Telcordia Cyber Security, among others. The GIIC aims to be a forum for the development of ideas and actions on key policy issues for the high technology industry, and the annual meeting is an opportunity for government leaders and C-level executives to share ideas and address challenges to the ICT industry.

"As the Office of Management and Budget has mandated that federal agencies begin using cloud computing by 2011 for those organizations that aren't already leveraging cloud-based technologies, it will be imperative for security within the cloud be as secure as possible," said Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO, Cleversafe. "Our technology is the most secure method for storing critical and sensitive government information with the highest data integrity standards available, even against malicious attacks or disasters, and I'm looking forward to discussing the importance of security in the cloud at this week's Annual Meeting."

With the inherent security features and unsurpassed availability and data integrity necessary to protect sensitive and valuable federal data, Cleversafe's technology divides data into "slices" and disperses them via secure network connections to multiple storage nodes on a dispersed storage network system. Each individual slice contains too little information to be useful, but any threshold of the slices can be used to perfectly recreate the original data. Cleversafe's cloud-based storage systems are ideal for the Federal Compliance Cloud market and meets the government's  Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) requirements by delivering up to sixteen 9's (99.99999999999999%) uptime availability.

Resources:

Cleversafe Solutions for the Federal Government: http://www.cleversafe.com/solutions/industry-solutions/federal-government

Cloudy with a Chance of Storage Blog: http://dev.cleversafe.org/weblog/

Cleversafe Vision: http://www.cleversafe.com/vision/our-vision

About Cleversafe

Cleversafe is the leader in resilient storage solutions, ideally suited for storage clouds and massive digital archives. For organizations who value assurance in confidentiality, data integrity, and limitless availability, Cleversafe provides information resiliency built directly into the storage system DNA. To learn more about Cleversafe and its solutions, please visit www.cleversafe.com, call 312-423-6640 or email us at [email protected].

SOURCE Cleversafe Inc.