The Total Economic Impact™ of Cleversafe, An IBM Company

Cleversafe object storage dramatically reduces the cost for massive storage implementations.

The costs and benefits for a Cleversafe customer with an average of 6 PBs of data, based on customer interviews, include:

Reduced storage costs: $14.1 million.

Reduced storage admin needs: $1 million.

Implementation costs: $156,688.

Tape archive cost: $4.7 million.

This report compares Cleversafe's object storage solution with a high-performance RAID solution. It examines a specific, anonymous customer's ROI and dives into the Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Cleversafe storage across the organization (i.e., ROI, risk reduction, administrative cost).