GreenBytes

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GreenBytes
Private
Industry Computer Software, IT Services
FateAcquired by Oracle Corporation
Founded Ashaway, Rhode Island, United States (2007 (2007))
Founder
  • Robert Petrocelli
  • Richard Petrocelli
DefunctMay 15, 2014 (2014-05-15)
Headquarters
275 Promenade Street, Suite 225, Providence, Rhode Island
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ProductsIO Offload Engine
Website oracle.com/greenbytes

GreenBytes was an American company providing inline deduplication data storage appliances and cloud-scale IO-Offload systems. [1] [2] [3] [4] Robert Petrocelli founded the company in 2007. [1] [5]

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On May 15, 2014, the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation. [6]

Note that there is another company called "greenbytes" based in Münster, Germany, established in 2000 and one in Aalter, Belgium founded in 2010.[ citation needed ]

History

The company began as a provider of energy-efficient inline deduplication storage appliances. [1]

In March 2012, GreenBytes came out with Solidarity, a high availability solid-state drive (SSD) array. [2] [7] Solidarity’s operating system, GO OS, provides real-time deduplication and compression. [7] [8]

In 2012, the company raised $12 million from Generation Investment Management, an investment fund founded by former US Vice President Al Gore, [3] [9] [10] bringing the total amount it had raised by then to $24 million. [11] GreenBytes stated it would use the new funds to expand sales and marketing of its data storage arrays. [10]

In July 2012, GreenBytes acquired the ZEVO ZFS technology for Mac OS X, developed by former Apple engineer Don Brady, who then joined the GreenBytes team. In that same month, Stephen O’Donnell became chairman of the company and Brett Johnson was appointed as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. [5] [12] [13]

In August 2012, the company announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure device called IO Offload Engine. [4] [14] The IO Offload Engine captures the I/O intense data stream and processes it in a more effective and efficient manner. This represented a shift for GreenBytes from a focus as a storage array vendor towards input/output–offload solutions for the virtual desktop. [4] [8] [12] [13] [15]

GreenBytes relocated its headquarters in January 2013 to a 5,500-square-foot building in Providence, Rhode Island and expanded its corporate offices. [5] [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kimberley Donoghue (August 31, 2011). "Five Questions With: Robert Petrocelli". Providence Business News . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Drew Robb (March 26, 2012). "5 Must-Have SSD and Flash Products". Infostor . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Pedro Hernandez (May 29, 2012). "GreenBytes Raises $12M for Fast, Green SSD Storage". Infostor . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 Emily Greenhalgh (August 21, 2012). "GreenBytes shifts focus to new IO Offload Engine". Providence Business News . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 Emily Greenhalgh (January 8, 2013). "GreenBytes relocates corporate headquarters to Providence". Providence Business News . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ Kevin McLaughlin (2014-05-16). "Oracle Acquires Storage Startup GreenBytes, Plans To Use It For ZFS Appliances". CRN Magazine . Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  7. 1 2 "GreenBytes Solidarity Offers Better than Solid Performance". Taneja Group. April 24, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  8. 1 2 Bruce Hoard (October 3, 2012). "Greenbytes Targets Excessive IOPs". Virtualization Review. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  9. ↑ Chris Mellor (May 29, 2012). "Al Gore pumps $12m into cheapo TLC flash upstart". The Register . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  10. 1 2 "The Daily Start-Up: Al Gore Invests In Data Storage Co. GreenBytes". The Wall Street Journal . May 30, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  11. ↑ Gregory T. Huang (May 29, 2012). "GreenBytes Gets $12M More, Led by Al Gore's Venture Firm". Xconomy . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  12. 1 2 Chris Mellor (October 12, 2012). "GreenBytes brandishes full-fat clone VDI pumper". The Register . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  13. 1 2 Chris Mellor (November 28, 2012). "GreenBytes founder steps aside for new blood". The Register . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  14. ↑ Todd Erickson (August 21, 2012). "Greenbytes revs IO Offload Engine to spark VDI adoption". TechTarget . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  15. ↑ Gary Hilson (August 30, 2012). "Dell, Nimble, GreenBytes and NetApp Up the Ante to Support VDI". Network Computing . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  16. ↑ Don Seiffert (January 8, 2013). "Enterprise software biz GreenBytes moves to downtown Providence". Boston Business Journal . Retrieved January 26, 2013.
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