GreenBytes: Bringing Deduplication to Primary Storage
Bob Petrocelli here, CEO of GreenBytes, and this is my first blog entry on our new website. Expect plenty of information about how our technology works and performs in the coming weeks. I thought I...
View ArticleGreenBytes and Sun (Oracle)
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...
View ArticleGreenBytes and OpenSolaris
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...
View ArticleGlobal Dedupe and Data Replication for Primary Storage
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...
View ArticleMeet the DCache: GreenBytes Hybrid Storage Architecture (HSA)
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...
View Article#EMC and #XtremIO: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
In 1963, Ted Sorensen, speechwriter for then President Kennedy, purloined the now famous motto of the New England Regional Chamber of Commerce that has, in latter years, been attributed to JFK. It is...
View Article#GreenBytes and the Future of #ZEVO
After the announcement was made that Ten’s Complement’s Don Brady is joining GreenBytes, we were overwhelmed with the volume of requests for clarity on the future of ZEVO. We wanted to take a few days...
View ArticleOur #VAAI (Really) is Better Than Theirs
Since the introduction of VAAI storage acceleration for VMware, we have witnessed the “big guys” blogging on the performance boost provided by this technology. For those of you with real lives, VAAI is...
View ArticleAttack of the (FAT) Clones vs. The Pagefile Menace
In our last installment, we looked at the effect of VAAI acceleration on some key VMware provisioning operations. In this article, we examine the efficacy of inline deduplication technology applied to...
View ArticleLinked Clones: The Jar Jar Binks of Virtual Desktops
The following is for my fellow Star Wars fans: Remember the first time you sat down to watch Episode I: The Phantom Menace? Episode I, the much-anticipated prequel to the beloved Star Wars trilogy,...
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