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Cleversafe Turns to Opengear Console Server for Advanced Serial Clustering
| Source: Opengear
SANDY, UT--(Marketwire - May 21, 2009) - Opengear (www.opengear.com), a leading provider
of next generation console
server solutions, today announced that Cleversafe, Inc., the leader in
dispersed storage technology for digital content storage, archive storage
and various industry solutions, has implemented Opengear's CM4148 console
manager in their product development data center to provide advanced serial
clustering to storage devices.
"As our data center environment grows, the Opengear CM4148 provides an
easy and cost effective way to cluster hundreds of devices through a single
IP address at the master console," said Tom Shirley, vice president of
product development at Cleversafe, Inc. "Opengear's ability to cluster up
to 1000 serial ports gives our technicians one window to view all the
devices and consolidates our scripting, programming and accessibility."
Cleversafe is the leader in dispersed data storage technologies, the ideal
way to store large, growing amounts of digital assets cost effectively.
Founded in 2004, the company is backed by world-class investors like NEA,
OCA Ventures, Harrison Street Capital and Alsop-Louie Partners. They are
also the sponsor of an open source community movement to help standardize
their technology through a cleversafe.org project. Cleversafe's Top 10
features include reliable, survivable, high performance, scalable,
unparalleled security, configurable, flexible, pluggable interfaces, easy
to deploy and easy to manage and monitor.
"Our implementation at Cleversafe showcases our robust clustering
technology where reliability, flexibility and ease of use is highly
important," said Todd Rychecky, vice president of sales at Opengear. "In
addition, we share Cleversafe's open source philosophy to solving mission
critical technology problems, insuring that our customers receive the best
that Linux has to offer."
About Opengear CM4100
Opengear's CM4100 family of console servers allows system administrators
remote access and control of their data centers and networks. The CM4100
provides reliable, secure access to the serial console ports, embedded
service processors and network console ports on Windows, Linux, SUN, HP and
IBM servers. The CM4100 can be used to monitor and control network
infrastructure such as routers, switches, firewalls, UPS, PDU, PBX, etc.
from anywhere in the world.
About Opengear
Opengear (http://www.opengear.com) designs and manufactures next-generation
console server and kvm over ip solutions for secure remote access and
control of network devices such as routers, switches, servers, firewalls,
uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units and environmental
monitoring devices in distributed networks. Opengear's open source platform
gives network managers and system integrators the most flexible,
extensible, console server solution on the market today for serial console
ports, service processors, power solutions and environmentals.