CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Future [symbol: FUTR] today announced it has selected Cleversafe Inc.’s limitless data storage solution for its massive archive of magazine titles and assets in addition to housing its growing digital portfolio. The company selected Cleversafe after conducting a broad technology search for a storage vendor that could ensure the company’s data integrity and resiliency while scaling exponentially as the company continues to create new content in emerging mediums.

Future, one of the world’s leading creators of multi-media brands, offers over 200 specialty publications, mobile apps, events and websites – attracting more than 50 million unique visitors to its websites per month. With the growth of its digital portfolio, Future saw its need for storing new asset types, such as video, games, and mobile apps, and larger formats for graphics and digital images reach a critical threshold.

“We needed to find a solution that would allow us to store our entire portfolio and image archive in a much more cost-effective manner and maintain those assets at their highest resiliency. That became increasingly challenging as the company was faced with limited server room space, and a desire to lower power usage,” said Sam Eaton, Director of Web Technology for Future. “Out of the gate Cleversafe became an important technology partner and has helped Future achieve its cost objectives with a solid, well implemented storage strategy.”

“Future’s business is based on serving communities of enthusiasts who want to learn, interact and engage in topics that they are passionate about. Being able to access Future’s content at any time and through a wide variety of mediums is an important part of their daily lives and critical to the success of Future’s business,” said Russ Kennedy, Vice President of Product Strategy, Marketing and Customer Solutions, for Cleversafe, Inc. “For many companies storage of digital assets is an area of massive growth. Many more companies are looking to leverage multi-media in today’s social and business landscape. To do that successfully requires a well thought out strategy, such as the one Future put in place with Cleversafe, to meet its needs today and well into the future.”

0 million times more reliable than traditional RAID-based systems and it doesn’t rely on replication to protect information. Its information dispersal capabilities reduce storage costs up to 90 percent while meeting compliance requirements and ensuring protection against data loss. With the combination of limitless scale, highly reliable storage and efficient analytics in the same platform, Cleversafe is solving the most challenging Big Data problems for customers in a very efficient manner.

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