GreenBytes Inc

"Reducing The Carbon Footprint of Information"

GreenBytes® has developed the GB-X Series of high-performance inline deduplicating storage appliances that incorporate energy-efficient technologies and the highest levels of scalability in an easy-to-use, cost-effective package, designed to bring the benefits of data deduplication to the broader storage market. GreenBytes offers storage performance three times that of competing deduplication appliances, making them ideal for solving both the primary and back-up/recovery storage needs for industries of all sizes.

GreenBytes provides cutting-edge deduplication technology built into the GBFS file operating system. Unlike other deduplication technologies that are primarily used only for backup operations, GreenBytes has created storage appliances that permit real-time, on-the-fly deduplication of file blocks as they are stored, dramatically accelerating the process while eliminating the need for costly "scratch space disk" required of "post-storage" deduplication technologies.

Deduplication Goes Beyond Backup

The current generation of deduplication technology has been focused primarily on the data backup and archiving market, due to feature and performance limitations. GreenBytes' technology is different because it is the first to incorporate high-performance inline deduplication into an enterprise-scale file system. The GreenBytes file system, GBFS, is equally capable of ingesting data backup streams as well as acting as primary storage in a NAS and/or SAN mode.

GreenBytes' proprietary technology has the ability to scale within a single namespace to petabyte-size storage architectures - without sacrificing inline storage performance. GreenBytes' ground-breaking new GB-2000 and GB-4000 storage appliances, the first GB-X Series storage appliances available in the line, are SSD-enabled, providing outstanding performance and making them ideal for solving both the primary and back-up/recovery storage needs for industries of all sizes.

High Performing NAS and SAN Appliances with Native Deduplication

GB-2000

Efficiency in today's data centers is increasingly measured not only by power consumption, but also by capacity, space, reliability and economy of acquisition. GreenBytes'® groundbreaking GB-2000 storage appliance brings together a combination of highly innovative software technology and a world-class server storage server platform to address the efficiency crisis facing today's IT operations.

The GB-2000 storage appliance is purpose-built to bring the benefits of data deduplication to the broader storage market in an easy-to-use, energy-efficient package. Based on GreenBytes' file operating system (GBFS), the GB-2000 is ideal for the performance challenges of primary storage and the scaling, application support and DR requirements for backup operations.

GreenBytes' GB-2000 appliance is easily and efficiently scalable from an entry point of 12 TB up to 120 TB.<

Intel® Xeon® 5520 processor (8 virtual cores)
12 GB RAM
4x1 Gb Ethernet
1x1 Gb Service Port
Drive Bays: 24 2.5 inch SATA/SAS Hot Swap
Backplane: Active SAS 12 Gb/s
External SAS Connections: 2 x 12 Gb/s

*ES = Expansion Shelf

GB-4000

The GB-4000 4U storage server is a flexible hardware platform with two high-performance Intel® Xeon® processors, 48 2.5" hard drives, and flexible network connectivity. Configured as an appliance with ultra-fault tolerant double parity RAID disk sets, the GB-4000 will meet your organization's needs for performance and system availability. Depending on your application's performance needs, GB-4000 can optionally be configured with Solid State Disk (SSD) read cache in place of SATA for superlative read performance.

Turnkey Solution

GB-4000 is a storage appliance solution designed to fit your IT environment with little more than a few minutes of configuration. Whether you're a single vendor shop, or have a multitude of system providers, just select your preferred standard connection and start storing.

GreenBytes' GB-4000 appliance is easily and efficiently scalable from an entry point of 24 TB up to 432 TB.

4U Chassis
Dual Intel Xeon 5520 processor (16 virtual cores)
24 GB RAM
4x1 Gb Ethernet
2x10 Gb Ethernet (standard)
1x1 Gb Service Port
Drive Bays: 48 2.5 inch SATA/SAS Hot Swap
Backplane Active SAS 24 Gb/s
External SAS Connections: 4 x 12 Gb/s

*ES = Expansion Shelf

Energy Efficiency

GreenBytes’ intelligent power management capabilities automatically put a subset of drives into a lower power state and keep only a subset of drives active. A fully-populated 216 TB GB-4000 appliance has a power consumption rate of just 7 watts/TB under a heavy load power-managed- less than a third of the power capacity in comparison to one of the industry’s leading storage servers configured for 48 TB (average consumption of 22 watts/TB.) Additionally, the GB-2000 appliance draws about the same power required for two light bulbs -- less than 150 watts.