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Compuverde tutorial file system
Compuverde is an IT company with a focus on data storage and cloud computing solutions[1]. The company, which addresses the global market, was founded by Stefan Bernbo, Christian Melander and Roger Persson in 2008 and has its headquarters in the southeastern part of Sweden[2][3]. Compuverde’s software-defined storage solution is a converged, unified storage platform, using clusters of standardized servers to store up to hundreds of petabytes and billions of files[4].
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• Runs on commodity hardware.
• Linear scale-out by adding new storage servers.
• Addresses market segments like vNAS, Hyper-Converged infrastructure and Hybrid Cloud.
• Hardware independent, symmetric architecture[5].
The executive chairman of Compuverde is Swedish entrepreneur Mikael Blomqvist, also a board member of Blekinge Institute of Technology[6] In 1989, Mikael Blomqvist founded the cable insulation producer Roxtec[7]. As a provider of data storage, Compuverde is a member of the worldwide nonprofit association SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) which aims to work towards the goal of promoting acceptance, deployment, and confidence in storage-related architectures, systems, services, and technologies across IT and business communities[8]. In January 2012, Compuverde, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Ericsson received recognition from the Development of Knowledge and Competence (KK-stiftelsen) in Sweden for a joint venture project on big data storage and cloud computing[9][10].