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GreenBytes was an American company providing inline deduplication
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appliances and cloud-scale IO-Offload systems. Robert Petrocelli founded the company in 2007. On May 15, 2014, it was acquired by
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History

The company began as a provider of energy-efficient inline deduplication storage appliances. In March 2012, GreenBytes released Solidarity, a high availability
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(SSD) array. Solidarity’s
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, GO OS, provides real-time deduplication and compression. In 2012, the company raised $12 million from
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, an investment fund founded by former US Vice President
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, bringing the total amount it had raised by then to $24 million. 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
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, developed by former
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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
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of global sales. In August 2012, the company announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure device called IO Offload Engine. 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. On May 15, 2014, the company was acquired by
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