Recognized for Innovations that Boost Virtual Desktop Performance while Slashing Data Storage
Providence, R.I. – September 2, 2013 – GreenBytes®, Inc., a developer of full-featured virtual desktop optimization solutions that uniquely support existing infrastructure, today announced it was named a Best of VMworld 2013 awards finalist in Desktop Virtualization and End-User Computing. GreenBytes IO Offload Engine was honored for its unique approach to overcoming storage-related desktop virtualization hurdles, enabling orders-of-magnitude increases in performance and data storage savings.
An independent team of experts and editors from TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com selected GreenBytes IO Offload Engine from more than 200 nominees in nine categories. The annual Best of VMworld awards showcases the top technologies of the year, which are judged according to innovation, value, performance, reliability, and ease of use.
“Businesses that want to implement desktop virtualization for its efficiencies and savings have been waylaid by huge and seemingly insurmountable storage-related cost and performance barriers. GreenBytes completely eradicates these obstacles and paves the way for extremely affordable, high-performing, large-scale virtual desktop deployments,” said name, title, GreenBytes. “We’re thrilled that such an influential organization as TechTarget recognizes the critical role GreenBytes plays in enabling desktop virtualization to deliver on its promises.”
GreenBytes IO Offload Engine is the only product helping businesses easily overcome Input Output Per Second (IOPS) barriers and deploy high-performing persistent virtual desktops at cloud-scale—without adding expensive, additional RAM to every server. It diverts heavy traffic from the customer’s existing storage area network (SAN) to GreenBytes, and uses GreenBytes’ patented zero-latency inline deduplication technology to cut desktop virtualization storage needs up to 98% and deliver much higher IOPS and lower latency. Customers no longer need to purchase additional SANs, disks or flash, and instead have extra capacity on their existing SAN. For the first time, virtual desktops run at optimal levels, providing better-than-local-desktop performance and productivity. Businesses consistently reduce overall virtual desktop ROI by 50%, from 18 months to just nine months.
About GreenBytes, Inc.
GreenBytes delivers patented IO-Offload desktop virtualization solutions that maximize the effective performance and capacity of existing infrastructure to provide persistent, full-featured virtual desktops with the manageability, scalability and affordability required for cloud-scale VDI deployments. GreenBytes was founded in 2007 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. For more information, please visit www.getgreenbytes.com.
About SearchServerVirtualization.com
SearchServerVirtualization.com™ is an enterprise virtualization-focused website providing IT professionals and the community with the latest server virtualization news, articles, tips, and expert advice. Other virtualization information includes webcasts and industry white papers covering all areas of server virtualization, such as virtualization platforms, server hardware, managing virtual environments, virtualization architecture and strategies, application issues, and more.
Its sister site SearchVMware.com™, is dedicated to helping IT organizations evaluate products, services and business strategies that can lead them to successful implementations of virtualization technologies in VMware environments. And sister site SearchVirtualDesktop.com™ is the premier source for information on desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and virtual desktop infrastructure.
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