GreenBytes has developed a series of energy-efficient, high-performance inline deduplicating storage appliances designed for both traditional deduplication and primary storage environments. The combination of real-time deduplication and other performance benefits with the GreenBytes File System (GBFS) opens the door to a new paradigm of storage applications for primary storage.
Primary Storage Consolidation
Key Points:
- Global deduplication across iSCSI and NFS protocols
- Virtual storage prevents LUN ‘sprawl’
- Deploy storage when needed
Save money and reduce administration complexity by consolidating storage on an easy to use GB-X Series platform from GreenBytes. Rather than purchasing a NAS filer or iSCSI SAN for each and every application that requires file or block storage respectively, GB-X appliances permit virtual provisioned storage pools with NAS (CIFS, NFS) and iSCSI SAN identities simultaneously. By reducing your infrastructure needs to the basics of standard networks and a single GreenBytes storage namespace, businesses can reduce their footprint of systems and defer or eliminate costly data center expansion projects.
With GreenBytes’ real-time inline deduplication and wirespeed compression, GreenBytes further stretches the value of every terabyte of storage by optimizing the on-disk usage behavior of business data. Unlike all other deduplication products on the market, there are no performance or namespace size limits placed on our appliances.
There is no need to overbuy storage with GreenBytes - scale as you need, when you need. Our systems can be field upgraded with additional capacity in minutes. With year over year increases in drive performance and capacities, customers can take advantage of the latest technology and benefit from improved cost per terabyte over time.
Primary Storage Performance at a Fraction of the Cost
Key Points:
- Accelerate with SSD: Read IOPS without spindles
- Reduce footprint and power required to spin big disk arrays
- Deliver performance for virtual infrastructure
GreenBytes is changing the way we look at high-performance storage. For years now, high-performance storage architectures meant large spindle counts of relatively small, expensive hard disks. Huge arrays were required to deliver adequate performance for not just transactional databases, but also for email servers, server virtualization implementations and other IOPS intensive applications.
GreenBytes’ multi-tiered cache technology leverages the powerful performance of solid state disk (SSD) drives to achieve performance that traditionally used dozens or hundreds of magnetic disk drives to achieve.
When combined with GreenBytes’ inline deduplication capability, the benefits of high-performance SSD cache are multiplied further. Market estimates for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) adoption are set to grow more than 6,000% from 2010 to 2013. VDI storage, often an afterthought with virtualization projects, requires significant IOPS to sustain not only system boot I/O, but also random, ‘chatter’ associated with virtual desktop operating systems normal use. By magnifying the value of a block representing an OS file in cache, these IOPS are obtained much more economically than market-leading iSCSI SANs offered today.
Primary Storage for Windows
Reduce complexity and cost managing your applications hosted on Microsoft Windows operating systems. With so many business applications running in Windows environments, each with their own storage and management overhead, consolidating storage on a single GreenBytes platform can significantly simplify your technology environment.
A single GreenBytes GB-X Series appliance can replace many Windows file servers, and simultaneously support many user connections. The GreenBytes GB-X Series appliances are designed to work seamlessly with the network and user administration tools most commonly found in Windows environments, reducing the management overhead of storage administration. The GreenBytes ‘AutoProvision’ features automatically creates a storage profile for users based on the settings within the Windows Active Directory (AD) environment, eliminating the need for redundant user management activities.
GreenBytes technology improves efficiency of Windows hosted applications by:
- Consolidating storage for Windows applications and users
- Providing a common storage administration platform, built on Microsoft tools and standards
- Reducing risk by providing replication for key data sets to other GreenBytes storage platforms
- Growing storage virtually as storage needs dictate