CloudByte Announces Channel Partner Program
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Posted on August 26, 2013 at 7:21:01 AM
CloudByte Announces Channel Partner Program
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Company to Demonstrate Software-Based Storage Solution at VMworld U.S. 2013;
CRN Names CloudByte a 2013 Emerging Vendor
VMWORLD 2013
CloudByte [http://www.cloudbyte.com ], the first company to guarantee quality of
service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, announced today details
of its channel partner program, which targets value-added resellers, system integrators,
as well as hardware manufacturers and IT solution vendors. With this program, CloudByte
offers its partners the opportunity to build leading-edge storage solutions by simply
installing the ElastiStor software on the industry-standard hardware of their choice.
CloudByte allows its customers to confidently move more applications to shared storage and
cloud environments by offering guaranteed performance and simplified management at a
fraction of the cost with its software-defined and software-only storage solution.
CloudByte will demonstrate ElastiStor and its seamless integration with virtualization
platforms in the New Innovator Pavilion at VMworld U.S. 2013, Booth 2035, San Francisco,
California, August 25-29, 2013.
(Logo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/589070 )
CloudByte has been recently named a 2013 Emerging Vendor
[http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/240159850/emerging-vendors-2013-storage-vendors.htm?pgno=9 ]
by UBM Tech Channel's CRN Magazine. The annual list highlights hot tech startups
making an impact on the channel and an impression on the tech industry as a whole.
"Our customers look for value in the technology solutions we provide, including
reasonable cost, guaranteed performance, scalability, and ease of use," said Prasanna Ram,
CEO of Kryptos Networks. "As a software solution, CloudByte ElastiStor offers the
flexibility of SATA, SAS and SSD hardware, as well as NFS, CIFS, FC and iSCSI protocols.
This is very appealing to us, because they provide the software and we can build solutions
based on our customers' requirements by installing the software on a wide range of
industry-standard servers. We were also very impressed with the easy-to-use web-based
console that helps provision, monitor and manage storage for our customers' environments."
"DataON Storage is honored to be selected as a technology partner of CloudByte. We are
now positioned to provide a high-density cluster-in-a-box hardware platform to the growing
Cloudbyte channel partner network," said Trenton Baker, vice president of business
development at DataON. "By designing a turnkey high-availability clustered platform,
DataON enables the ElastiStor shared storage solution to be easily deployed to solve
customers' storage challenges in scaling predictable performance, which is key in
virtualized environments."
"We are now offering our channel partners a rewarding program and are looking forward
to sharing our resources and expertise with them in order to expand their presence in the
respective markets and support their customers," said Greg Goelz, chief executive officer
of CloudByte. "CloudByte is providing a software solution, which coupled with the hardware
of choice, the expertise and connections of the channel is very appealing to enterprise
customers, offering the flexibility and scale they need without giving up performance and
high-end enterprise features."
Through the new channel partner program, CloudByte is helping its partners with
customer outreach, sales conversion and enterprise-class support to drive revenue growth
together. Benefits of becoming a CloudByte channel partner include:
- Two levels of resellers (Preferred and Premier) with generous discounts
- Qualified sales lead generation and lead distribution to partners
- Joint marketing and selling with the CloudByte team
- Sales training and access to dedicated CloudByte sales representatives
- Opportunity protection and through deal registration
- Referral fees for non-reseller partners
- 24X7 access to the CloudByte partner website with useful tools, information,
as well as case entry and management
- Ongoing web-based and onsite training
CloudByte ElastiStor has been verified to work with leading technology platforms,
including VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, and Citrix CloudPlatform, and is now
integrated with OpenStack block storage Cinder. A free perpetual license of the CloudByte
full-featured storage software for up to 4 TB of storage is available. The software can be
downloaded at http://cloudbyte.com/free-trial.
About CloudByte
CloudByte is an award-winning software-defined storage company that offers guaranteed
quality of service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, allowing
cloud service providers and enterprises building private clouds to easily host performance
applications in the cloud. With CloudByte's on-demand performance management, cloud
environments can easily scale to thousands of applications while economically guaranteeing
performance for each application. Established in 2011 by technology executives from
companies such as HP, IBM, NetApp, and Novell, CloudByte is backed by Fidelity Worldwide
Investment, Nexus Venture Partners and Kae Capital. For more information, go to
http://www.cloudbyte.com, http://www.facebook.com/cloudbyte, or
http://www.twitter.com/cloudbyteinc.
Citrix(R), XenServer(R) and CloudPlatform(TM) are registered trademarks of Citrix
Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are property of their respective owners.
PR Agency for CloudByte:
Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
+1(408)203-6000
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Photo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/589070
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/589070
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
CloudByte Technologies
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Company to Demonstrate Software-Based Storage Solution at VMworld U.S. 2013;
CRN Names CloudByte a 2013 Emerging Vendor
VMWORLD 2013
CloudByte [http://www.cloudbyte.com ], the first company to guarantee quality of
service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, announced today details
of its channel partner program, which targets value-added resellers, system integrators,
as well as hardware manufacturers and IT solution vendors. With this program, CloudByte
offers its partners the opportunity to build leading-edge storage solutions by simply
installing the ElastiStor software on the industry-standard hardware of their choice.
CloudByte allows its customers to confidently move more applications to shared storage and
cloud environments by offering guaranteed performance and simplified management at a
fraction of the cost with its software-defined and software-only storage solution.
CloudByte will demonstrate ElastiStor and its seamless integration with virtualization
platforms in the New Innovator Pavilion at VMworld U.S. 2013, Booth 2035, San Francisco,
California, August 25-29, 2013.
(Logo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/589070 )
CloudByte has been recently named a 2013 Emerging Vendor
[http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/240159850/emerging-vendors-2013-storage-vendors.htm?pgno=9 ]
by UBM Tech Channel's CRN Magazine. The annual list highlights hot tech startups
making an impact on the channel and an impression on the tech industry as a whole.
"Our customers look for value in the technology solutions we provide, including
reasonable cost, guaranteed performance, scalability, and ease of use," said Prasanna Ram,
CEO of Kryptos Networks. "As a software solution, CloudByte ElastiStor offers the
flexibility of SATA, SAS and SSD hardware, as well as NFS, CIFS, FC and iSCSI protocols.
This is very appealing to us, because they provide the software and we can build solutions
based on our customers' requirements by installing the software on a wide range of
industry-standard servers. We were also very impressed with the easy-to-use web-based
console that helps provision, monitor and manage storage for our customers' environments."
"DataON Storage is honored to be selected as a technology partner of CloudByte. We are
now positioned to provide a high-density cluster-in-a-box hardware platform to the growing
Cloudbyte channel partner network," said Trenton Baker, vice president of business
development at DataON. "By designing a turnkey high-availability clustered platform,
DataON enables the ElastiStor shared storage solution to be easily deployed to solve
customers' storage challenges in scaling predictable performance, which is key in
virtualized environments."
"We are now offering our channel partners a rewarding program and are looking forward
to sharing our resources and expertise with them in order to expand their presence in the
respective markets and support their customers," said Greg Goelz, chief executive officer
of CloudByte. "CloudByte is providing a software solution, which coupled with the hardware
of choice, the expertise and connections of the channel is very appealing to enterprise
customers, offering the flexibility and scale they need without giving up performance and
high-end enterprise features."
Through the new channel partner program, CloudByte is helping its partners with
customer outreach, sales conversion and enterprise-class support to drive revenue growth
together. Benefits of becoming a CloudByte channel partner include:
- Two levels of resellers (Preferred and Premier) with generous discounts
- Qualified sales lead generation and lead distribution to partners
- Joint marketing and selling with the CloudByte team
- Sales training and access to dedicated CloudByte sales representatives
- Opportunity protection and through deal registration
- Referral fees for non-reseller partners
- 24X7 access to the CloudByte partner website with useful tools, information,
as well as case entry and management
- Ongoing web-based and onsite training
CloudByte ElastiStor has been verified to work with leading technology platforms,
including VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, and Citrix CloudPlatform, and is now
integrated with OpenStack block storage Cinder. A free perpetual license of the CloudByte
full-featured storage software for up to 4 TB of storage is available. The software can be
downloaded at http://cloudbyte.com/free-trial.
About CloudByte
CloudByte is an award-winning software-defined storage company that offers guaranteed
quality of service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, allowing
cloud service providers and enterprises building private clouds to easily host performance
applications in the cloud. With CloudByte's on-demand performance management, cloud
environments can easily scale to thousands of applications while economically guaranteeing
performance for each application. Established in 2011 by technology executives from
companies such as HP, IBM, NetApp, and Novell, CloudByte is backed by Fidelity Worldwide
Investment, Nexus Venture Partners and Kae Capital. For more information, go to
http://www.cloudbyte.com, http://www.facebook.com/cloudbyte, or
http://www.twitter.com/cloudbyteinc.
Citrix(R), XenServer(R) and CloudPlatform(TM) are registered trademarks of Citrix
Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are property of their respective owners.
PR Agency for CloudByte:
Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
+1(408)203-6000
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Photo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/589070
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/589070
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
CloudByte Technologies