Posted by Michael Robinson on Sun, Aug 29, 2010 @ 01:40 PM
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!).
Download your copy of the VMware Solution Brief here and learn about how the power of VMware ESX and GreenBytes’ unique combination of inline deduplication and high IO performance marks a significant leap forward in storage technology for virtualized server and VDI environments.
And for those of you attending VMworld, we look forward to seeing you this week at booth #1712. Come for the Solution Brief and free stylish pen, and stay for the GB-X Series and VMware demo, as well as some engaging chat with our knowledgable, friendly and well-dressed booth staff.
Posted by Bob Petrocelli on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 @ 06:59 AM
Although it has not yet been formally announced by Oracle, rumors abound that there could be changes coming for its OpenSolaris community. Anyone who is familiar with GreenBytes and our products knows that OpenSolaris is a component of our data storage solutions. Thus, with the potential changes appearing on the horizon for OpenSolaris, it’s certainly a fair question to ask, “What will this mean for GreenBytes, our products, customers and partners?”
The answer is quite simple: nothing. Although OpenSolaris is a meaningful component of GreenBytes product, it is absolutely critical to understand that GreenBytes’ overwhelming value proposition is the intellectual property (IP) developed and owned by GreenBytes. GreenBytes will continue to control and develop the key technology enhancements that make our products what they are – revolutionary and evolutionary next-generation storage solutions.
It is also important to note that OpenSolaris technology will remain available and accessible. GreenBytes has full source code for all included functionality and will continue to support that code for as long as it remains part of any GreenBytes offering.
With possible changes coming in the OpenSolaris camp, it will remain business as usual for GreenBytes, our products, and our valued customers and partners. GreenBytes has and continues to plan for regular, controlled releases of the GreenBytes File System (GBFS) that will add additional features to benefit our customers, and we look forward to building on our success as the emerging leader in next-generation data storage solutions.
Posted by Michael Robinson on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 @ 12:03 PM
We're two weeks away from VMworld San Francisco. Who's going? GreenBytes will be there in full force, so be sure to stop by booth #1712 to pick up a copy of our soon-to-be-released VMware Solution Brief, and to learn more about GreenBytes solutions in Virtual Environments and our next-generation Hybrid Storage Architecture (HSA) approach to data storage.
And of course you'll want to see our GB-X Series of high-performance, energy-efficient inline deduplication storage appliances in action. GB-X Series appliances enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from VMware. Integrated with VMware ESX, GreenBytes’ unique combination of inline deduplication and high IO performance marks a significant leap forward in storage technology for VDI environments.
GreenBytes’ GB-X Series is an ideal fit for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage, enabling fast and efficient provisioning for machine images. Users can rapidly deploy VDIs with a 90% or more reduction in storage requirements versus non-intelligent arrays, and scale to thousands of concurrent users with the only iSCSI array to combine inline deduplication and multi-tier, highly scalable IOPS caches.
Stay tuned for some exciting GreenBytes announcements leading up to VMworld, and we look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!
Posted by Michael Robinson on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 @ 10:43 AM
To bring a true next-generation storage solution to market, you need a talented team with a clear vision, a lot of ingenuity, serious experience in the trenches, and some outstanding hardware and software. We're big fans of Seagate's Constellation 2.5-inch high-capacity hard drives, so GreenBytes was thrilled to work with Seagate on their case study, GreenBytes: Rewriting the Rules for Storage Performance and Efficiency With GB-X Series Appliances and Seagate® Constellation® Hard Drives.
If you want to learn a bit about how these drives factor into GreenBytes' Hybrid Storage Architecture (HSA) and GB-X Series of high-performance, energy-efficient inline deduplication storage appliances, you can download the case study here.
Posted by Jim Jenkins on Fri, May 07, 2010 @ 11:12 AM
One of the many benefits of GreenBytes' unique Hybrid Storage Architecture (HSA) is that its combination of inline deduplication and high IO performance mark a significant leap forward in storage technology for VDI environments.
GreenBytes' GB-X Series is an ideal fit for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage, enabling users to take full control of their GreenBytes array using the integrated Citrix StorageLink technology. Users can rapidly deploy VDIs with a 90% or more reduction in storage requirements versus non-intelligent arrays, and scale to thousands of concurrent users with the only iSCSI array to combine inline deduplication and multi-tier, highly scalable IOPS caches.
Join us next week, May 11-13, in San Francisco for Citrix Synergy 2010. We will be showcasing our company, architecture and products in the Solutions Hall. Stop by booth 416 for a chat and a demonstration... and maybe a free GreenBytes pen. ;-) We look forward to meeting you there.
Posted by Jim Jenkins on Wed, Apr 28, 2010 @ 09:25 AM
Just as in the automotive industry, where combinations of computing power, electric motors and internal combustion engines are being combined for positive results, the storage industry is ready to enter a new phase where use of multiple storage technologies will result in significantly better products and reduced costs.
In recent years, the storage industry has recommended a tiered use of storage products. By implementing progressively higher performance (and more expensive) hard drives, a user could match application performance requirements to appropriate storage capabilities. In order to get high performance, users have been forced to utilize expensive and high power disk technologies with expensive interfaces such as Fibre Channel. Lower performing disk technologies, such as SATA drives, have been relegated for use with second tier storage applications.
GreenBytes' unique Hybrid Storage Architecture (HSA) is changing this simple tiered disk approach. HSA incorporates a combination of high-performance (high-cost, low-power) solid state disk (SSD) drives, lower performance (lower cost, lower power) SATA hard drives, high-performance inline data deduplication, MAID energy management and 10 GbE connectivity. The resulting product is a high-performance, high-capacity system that is extremely power efficient and low cost.
GreenBytes' Hybrid Storage Architecture implements inline data deduplication that is performance optimized through the use of SSD for cache and logging functions. Read and write operations from the storage system are largely through SSD, minimizing the IO requirements to hard disk. This allows use of lower performance SATA disk drives while giving the system the performance of faster drives. GreenBytes goes one step further to reduce energy use by implementing lower power 2.5" SATA drives and implementing MAID energy management functionality.
The GreenBytes GB-X Series of products is leading the industry by providing a unique hybrid storage technology solution to address the needs of both primary storage and backup applications. Just as in the automotive industry, it will take time for the leaders to change the overall market, but change will come!
Posted by Bob Petrocelli on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 @ 12:02 PM
I wanted to take this opportunity to update the community on the status of the relationship between SUN (ORACLE) and GreenBytes. Last year, SUN and GreenBytes had a very public disagreement over intellectual property relating to deduplication in the ZFS filesystem. I am happy to report that the matter is now behind us and has been settled in a mutually beneficial fashion. In fact, the working relationship between the two groups is stronger than ever. We have been working well with members of the OpenSolaris team and strongly believe that ZFS is the best storage platform available.