Forbes: Open-Source Storage | Linux Today

Forbes: Open-Source Storage

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 26, 2007

“Christopher Gladwin is known for an unusual open-source plan:
Keep the world’s data everywhere, in a blur of little chunks. Soon
he may be known for making money, in significantly larger
sizes.

“Gladwin is the originator of the Cleversafe open-source
software project. Cleversafe is dispersed storage software, meaning
that a single copy of data is dispersed among several locations, in
such a way that only some minimal number of them must be engaged to
reassemble the entire package…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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