GreenBytes: GreenPower Blog

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.

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.

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?”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing like a little friendly competition!