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It's hard to believe that we're just a little over two weeks out from IP Expo, October 19-20 in London. We have a major product announcement coming on the first day of the event on the 19th, and if you've been following us on Twitter (or if you have recently visited our homepage), we've been dropping some not-so-subtle hints as to what we plan to unleash on the storage universe very shortly.

The question is often asked: What are the pros and cons of file-based deduplication vs. block-based? The reality is, it depends. It depends on the data and the likelihood for duplicates to exist, regardless of file or block.

One of life’s great luxuries is time. In the case of storage systems, time spent on the problem leads to refinement. At GreenBytes, we have spent the last four years focused on developing a high-performance and stable storage system that delivers the performance of flash storage and the economy of magnetic storage.

SPS, Dutch developer of IT-management software Gensys and specialist in outsourced services, purchased GreenBytes GB-2000 data storage appliances for the Gensys management environment and cloud to facilitate VDI and DR services that SPS is offering to their customers via its Gensys Business Service Management Solution.

The concept of deduplication of replication data streams is not new; however, it has generally only been applied in backup applications. At GreenBytes, we have recently completed an important new feature in the GreenBytes File System (GBFS) kernel that allows optimization of replication data streams from any data set. It is now possible, for the first time, to snapshot an iSCSI LUN and send only the data that is unique to the replication TARGET. The value of this optimization in bandwidth-constrained networks is immense. GBFS is the only iSCSI SAN to include global snapshot deduplication, compression and bandwidth throttling as an integral part of the snapshot engine.

And the good news from CeBIT in Germany keeps rolling in! Canon Business Centre, Goeke, in Germany, has selected the GreenBytes GB-2000 high-performance inline deduplication data storage appliance, together with Backup Exec 2010 software from Symantec, as the perfect combination for their internal Cloud Backup solution provided to their customers.

This week at CeBIT, GreenBytes European partners Consolidate IT (distributor) and Losstech (reseller), have been showcasing the 'Private Desktop Cloud.' The reception in Hanover, Germany has been tremendous, and the benefits are very clear: zero administration, extreme flexibility, and tight security.

The incessant growth of data, the rising energy costs linked to powering and cooling data centers, and the fact that some areas of major cities have reached the ceiling of available power, means that IT directors are demanding innovative products to serve their users and grow their business in an energy-neutral manner.

A week from tomorrow, the GreenTeam will be out in full force in Barcelona for Symantec Vision. GreenBytes has seen significant traction in the European market since we formally announced our entry there earlier this year, and we are looking forward to meeting with those who were unable to make it to Symantec Vision in Las Vegas earlier in the year, and reconnecting with those of you who did.

In honor of VMworld, which starts tomorrow here in beautiful and surprisingly chilly San Francisco, GreenBytes is pleased to announce the release of our VMware Solution Brief. Like beer with pizza, and chocolate with peanut butter, so is GreenBytes with VMware (that means we go great together!).