# OpenClovis

> OpenClovis is a Petaluma, California infrastructure-software company that builds SAFplus, a carrier-grade high-availability middleware platform for telecom, networking, and defense equipment. Its libraries, GUI tools, and code generators let engineers design multi-node clustered applications with sub-second fault detection and failover, targeting the 99.999% (five-nines) uptime demanded by network operators. Founded in 2002 and offered under a dual open-source (GPL) and commercial license, SAFplus has been used in deployments by companies including Sonus, HP, Ericsson, NASA, and Lockheed Martin.

- **Founded:** 2002
- **Headquarters:** Petaluma, California, United States
- **Founders:** V. K. Budhraja (Founder, President & CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 5 employees (small, founder-operated), historically with R&D staff in India and Vietnam
- **Products:** SAFplus High Availability & Scalability Platform, OpenClovis IDE, SAFplus Management Platform, SAFplus Runtime & Web Director, OpenClovis Test Automation Environment
- **Notable:** Launched the telecom industry's first open-source, carrier-grade Application Service Platform (ASP) and IDE., SAFplus proven in deployments delivering 99.999% (five-nines) availability with sub-second failover., Implements Service Availability (SA) Forum Application Interface and Hardware Platform Interface specifications.

## Products & services

- **SAFplus High Availability & Scalability Platform** — Middleware providing libraries, GUI, and a code generator to design multi-node clustered applications that are highly available, redundant, and scalable, with sub-second node and application fault detection and failover.
- **OpenClovis IDE** — Integrated development environment for modeling systems, defining redundancy, and generating application skeletons for the SAFplus platform.
- **SAFplus Management Platform** — Standards-based system management with support for NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, SNMP, and XML configuration for embedded and networked systems.
- **SAFplus Runtime & Web Director** — Runtime engine and web-based management interface for real-time monitoring, fault management, and control of distributed clusters.
- **OpenClovis Test Automation Environment** — Test automation tooling for validating high-availability behavior, failover, and redundancy in clustered deployments.

## Achievements

- Launched the telecom industry's first open-source, carrier-grade Application Service Platform (ASP) and IDE.
- SAFplus proven in deployments delivering 99.999% (five-nines) availability with sub-second failover.
- Implements Service Availability (SA) Forum Application Interface and Hardware Platform Interface specifications.
- Culmination of roughly $40M in R&D investment across its platform.
- Open-sourced the full SAFplus platform on GitHub under GPL-2.0.

## Latest updates

- **2015-06** — SAFplus 6.0.1 released and the platform maintained as open source on GitHub under GPL-2.0.
- **2006-05** — Company rebranded from Clovis Solutions to OpenClovis to reflect its open-source and open-standards commitment.

## Links

- Website: https://openclovis.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/openclovis
- GitHub: https://github.com/OpenClovis

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