GreenBytes

{{Infobox company

| name = GreenBytes

| logo =

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| type = Private

| traded_as =

| industry = Computer Software, IT Services

| foundation = Ashaway, Rhode Island, United States ({{Start date|2007|}})

| founder =

{{ plainlist |

Robert Petrocelli
Richard Petrocelli

}}

| fate = Acquired by Oracle Corporation

| defunct = {{End date|2014|05|15}}

| location_city = 275 Promenade Street, Suite 225, Providence, Rhode Island

| location_country = United States

| locations =

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people =

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Robert Petrocelli (Founder & CEO)
Lisa Waldman (Senior Vice President, Global Sales)
Kevin Brown (Chief Financial Officer)
Michael Robinson (Vice President, Marketing)
John Poduska (Vice President, Software Engineering)
Richard Petrocelli (Director & Chief Legal Counsel)

}}

| products = IO Offload Engine

| homepage = {{URL|oracle.com/greenbytes}}

}}

GreenBytes was an American company providing inline deduplication data storage appliances and cloud-scale IO-Offload systems.{{cite web | url=http://www.pbn.com/detail.html?sub_id=602aac55b6 | title=Five Questions With: Robert Petrocelli | publisher=Providence Business News | date=August 31, 2011 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Kimberley Donoghue}}{{cite web | url=http://www.infostor.com/disk-arrays/ssd-drives/5-must-have-ssd-and-flash-products.html | title=5 Must-Have SSD and Flash Products | publisher=Infostor | date=March 26, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Drew Robb}}{{cite web | url=http://www.infostor.com/storage-management/data-de-duplication/greenbytes-raises-12b-for-fast-green-ssd-storage.html | title=GreenBytes Raises $12M for Fast, Green SSD Storage | publisher=Infostor | date=May 29, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Pedro Hernandez}}{{cite web | url=http://www.pbn.com/GreenBytes-shifts-focus-to-new-IO-Offload-Engine,69901 | title=GreenBytes shifts focus to new IO Offload Engine | publisher=Providence Business News | date=August 21, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Emily Greenhalgh}} Robert Petrocelli founded the company in 2007.{{cite web | url=http://www.pbn.com/GreenBytes-relocates-corporate-headquarters-to-Providence,85448?search_filter=greenbytes&sub_type=stories,packages | title=GreenBytes relocates corporate headquarters to Providence | publisher=Providence Business News | date=January 8, 2013 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Emily Greenhalgh}} On May 15, 2014, it was acquired by Oracle Corporation.

History

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

In March 2012, GreenBytes released Solidarity, a high availability solid-state drive (SSD) array.{{cite web | url=http://tanejagroup.com/news/blog/systems-and-technology/greenbytes-solidarity-offers-better-than-solid-performance#.UPcEGkZntFM | title=GreenBytes Solidarity Offers Better than Solid Performance | publisher=Taneja Group | date=April 24, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013}} Solidarity’s operating system, GO OS, provides real-time deduplication and compression.{{cite web | url=http://virtualizationreview.com/blogs/the-hoard-facts/2012/10/greenbytes-excess-iops.aspx?m=1 | title=Greenbytes Targets Excessive IOPs | publisher=Virtualization Review | date=October 3, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Bruce Hoard}}

In 2012, the company raised $12 million from Generation Investment Management, an investment fund founded by former US Vice President Al Gore,{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/29/greenbytes_tlc_solidarity/ | title=Al Gore pumps $12m into cheapo TLC flash upstart | website=The Register | date=May 29, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Chris Mellor}}{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/05/30/the-daily-start-up-al-gore-invests-in-data-storage-co-greenbytes/?mod=wsj_share_twitter | title=The Daily Start-Up: Al Gore Invests In Data Storage Co. GreenBytes | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | date=May 30, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013}} bringing the total amount it had raised by then to $24 million.{{cite web | url=http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/05/29/greenbytes-gets-12m-more-led-by-al-gores-venture-firm/ | title=GreenBytes Gets $12M More, Led by Al Gore's Venture Firm | publisher=Xconomy | date=May 29, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Gregory T. Huang}} GreenBytes stated it would use the new funds to expand sales and marketing of its data storage arrays.

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.{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/12/greenbytes_chairman/ | title=GreenBytes brandishes full-fat clone VDI pumper | website=The Register | date=October 12, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Chris Mellor}}{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/greenbytes_o_donnell/ | title=GreenBytes founder steps aside for new blood | website=The Register | date=November 28, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Chris Mellor}}

In August 2012, the company announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure device called IO Offload Engine.{{cite web | url=http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/news/2240161820/Greenbytes-revs-IO-Offload-Engine-to-spark-VDI-adoption | title=Greenbytes revs IO Offload Engine to spark VDI adoption | publisher=TechTarget | date=August 21, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Todd Erickson}} 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 toward input/output–offload solutions for the virtual desktop.{{cite web | url=http://www.networkcomputing.com/virtualization/dell-nimble-greenbytes-and-netapp-up-the/240006490 | title=Dell, Nimble, GreenBytes and NetApp Up the Ante to Support VDI | publisher=Network Computing | date=August 30, 2012 | accessdate=January 26, 2013 | author=Gary Hilson}}

On May 15, 2014, the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation.{{cite web

| url = http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300072864/oracle-acquires-storage-startup-greenbytes-plans-to-use-it-for-zfs-appliances.htm

| title = Oracle Acquires Storage Startup GreenBytes, Plans To Use It For ZFS Appliances

| author = Kevin McLaughlin

| date = 2014-05-16

| work = CRN Magazine

| publisher =

| accessdate = 2014-05-17

}}