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The year 2012 was not characterized by any revolution in technology in the storage industry. Instead, it was a year in which the market caught up to the technological changes that have been brewing for a couple years.

It was a year in which public storage clouds proved their mettle, flash storage technology and converged infrastructure moved from the periphery to the mainstream, the top enterprise vendors and top small business vendors met to duke it out in the middle and even the lowly disk drive and tape drive brought new surprises.

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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — Data storage has gotten a lot cheaper in recent years.

And now, a Bloomfield Township company is hoping to lop another zero off the cost of storing your stuff.

Essentially, Yottabyte is using software to create virtual data centers, using cheaper so-called commodity hardware to replace more expensive software and systems from vendors like IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, EMC and NetApp.

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Yottabyte could be called a “consolidated, virtual data center in a box” - a scale-out box. Taking pages from the ‘books’ of several infrastructure companies, they’re providing a replacement for servers, storage, networking, virtualization software, backup and other specialty appliances that end up in the data center.

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Yottabyte unleashes Cloud OS platform for building Virtual Data Center

The startup's key technology is a distributed file system that can virtualize heterogeneous storage resources; it has also built management tools to create virtual datacenter environments. Can Yottabyte make a dent in the crowded cloud space?

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Yottabyte unveiled an enhanced version of its software for virtualizing commodity server, storage and networking hardware into a virtualized data center designed to help smaller companies build cloud data centers.

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Michigan-based startup Yottabyte is coming out of stealth mode with a virtual datacenter solution for all manner of cloud platforms. Last week the company held a coming out party for Yottabyte Community Edition, a software framework that "incorporates storage, compute and network in a single virtual data center platform for building public, private and hybrid clouds."

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In other cloud news, Bloomfield, MI-based startup Yottabyte emerged from stealth to launch its cloud operating system that it said will enable companies to build virtual data centers from commodity server, storage, and networking gear and software.

Yottabyte’s software, which has been in beta for months, competes with Nimbula, which joined the OpenStack consortium at the recent OpenStack Summit.

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Michigan-based Yottabyte claims to have a cloud-based operating system to control and manage virtually anything. The startup is coming out of stealth mode today with a plan to build private, public, and hybrid enterprise cloud storage, creating Google- and Amazon-like clouds that runs on an existing storage area network (SAN). Its OS has been in beta for months...

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Yottabyte is coming out of stealth today with an operating system that the startup claims will handle most storage management features and enable companies to build private, public and hybrid enterprise cloud storage.

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Yottabyte, provider of cloud operating system, announced on Wednesday Yottabyte Community Edition, a software platform for building a comprehensive, vendor-neutral virtual data center converging storage, compute and network.

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Yottabyte, a two-year-old Michigan start-up with awfully big shoes to fill given its very big name, claims to have what every boy wants these days, a cloud operating system.

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Yottabyte, a Michigan-based startup, on Wednesday launched a cloud operating system for building virtual data centers from commodity server, storage, and networking components and software.

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Press Release

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI — Yottabyte®, creator of the industry's leading cloud operating system, today announced Yottabyte Community Edition, a software platform for building a comprehensive, vendor-neutral virtual data center converging storage, compute and network.

Underpinning Yottabyte Community Edition is a powerful cloud operating system, which enables enterprises to architect their data centers in a private, public or hybrid cloud; rapidly provision new functionality; leverage commodity hardware; and scale according to usage requirements or IT budgets. Regardless of the selected cloud architecture, Yottabyte Community Edition allows single-point, web-based administration -- including provisioning, management and security -- across the entire network. Yottabyte's Community Edition is available as a free download.

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The Cloud Is Going to Be Huge: Winklevoss Twins

"I think the key is a company that is taking a unique or innovative approach to it or shifting the paradigm...Then, also, it's definitely the team behind it. You have to look at the people that are behind the product, who they are, what their background is, do they have a track record of success?" Cameron said YottaByte, a cloud storage start-up, is one potential investment for the Winklevoss firm.

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Yottabyte Attends Hack Harvard with the Winklevoss Twins

Greg Campbell, Yottabyte's Vice President of Technology, explained the benefits of using Yottabyte as a platform for building software that utilizes the cloud, such as a social network app, to Harvard computer science students.

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