Yottabyte LLC

Yottabyte LLC
Industry software-defined storage
Founded 2010
Founders
  • Greg Campbell
  • Paul E. Hodges III
  • Duane Tursi
Headquarters Bloomfield Township, MI, United States
Products
Website yottabyte.com

Yottabyte LLC is a software-defined storage (SDS) company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan. It operates data centers located in Bloomfield Township and on the east and west coasts of the United States.

History

Yottabyte was formed in 2010 with nearly $10 million in private investments[1] and has attracted interest from the Winklevoss twins.[2] Its founders include Greg Campbell (Vice President of Technology), Paul E. Hodges III (President and CEO), Duane Tursi (Vice President of Sales & Marketing). As of November 2012, Yottabyte had 15 customers, including VMWare and Takata,[3] and in December 2013 had 25 employees and one intern.[4]

Services

Yottabyte defines their mission as, “To simplify and automate IT systems by creating a software data center model that achieves all business requirements today and in the future via our flexible software-based architecture.”[5] What Yottabyte believes sets their services apart from the competition is that while other services allow organizations to easily define the architecture for virtual datacenters, most do not incorporate storage the way they do.[6]

yCenter

Their first SDS release was yCenter, a software-defined data center with an elastic nature that automatically adjusts as resources are added or eliminated. Users are able to deploy applications and easily reconfigure the infrastructure without making changes to the underlying hardware.[7] An appliance version of yCenter, the 1000 series YottaBlox, is set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2014 and is meant for private or hybrid cloud implementation.[8]

yStor

Yottabyte’s yStor is an enterprise class software-defined storage platform. Like yCenter, yStor is also designed with an elastic nature that adjusts resources as needed. It also handles data deduplication and protection, tiered storage, and multi-protocol access.[5]

Cloud Storage

Yottabyte launched their cloud computing and cloud storage services in 2012, comparing their storage systems to those offered by HP and Dell and their file synchronization and data transfer rates to services such as Dropbox.[9] Gigaom compared Yottabyte’s cloud Operating system to an OS offered by Nimbula.[10] Yottabyte’s cloud operating system is a content delivery network that can be installed on existing SAN or NAS systems and handles snapshots, data deduplication, backup, protection, synchronization, and replication.[11]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ , Christina Farr, "Yottabyte launches its ambitious OS to 'deliver on the intent of the cloud,'" VentureBeat, October 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ , Kathryn Hough, "Tech's Most Hated Twins Launch VC Firm," Techli, April 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ , "Bloomfield Firm Offering Major Data Storage Advance," CBS Detroit, November 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ , Jon Zemke, "Yottabyte adds 5 to staff as it hits double-digit growth," Metromode, December 19, 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 , "Yottabyte Releases yStor 2.1, Storage For Less Than A Penny A Gigabyte," CBS Detroit, April 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ , Maureen O'Gara, "Yottabyte & the Software-Defined Data Center," Cloud Computing Journal, October 25, 2012.
  7. ↑ , "Introducing yCenter," Yottabyte.
  8. ↑ , Joseph F. Kovar, "Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: So Many New Solutions Coming," CRN, August 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ , Deni Connor, "Yottabyte Launches Cloud Operating System," Information Week, October 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ , Barb Darrow, "This week in cloud: Big outages, OpenNebula updates, Yottabyte debuts," Gigaom, October 28, 2012.
  11. ↑ , Dave Raffo, "Startup Yottabyte develops OS for enterprise cloud storage," Search Cloud Storage, October 24, 2012.