Cloudbyte

Founded in 2011 by a team of experienced technology professionals, CloudByte Inc. emerged as a specialized provider of software-defined storage solutions. The founding team, which included Srivibhavan Balaram, Uma Mukkara, Felix Xavier, and Sunil Navalgi, brought extensive experience from major tech firms like NetApp, Novell, and HP, aiming to address storage challenges in virtualized environments. With operations in Silicon Valley and a development center in Bangalore, India, the company focused on the needs of cloud service providers and enterprises.

CloudByte's core business revolved around its flagship product, ElastiStor, a software-defined storage platform designed to provide guaranteed quality of service (QoS) for performance-sensitive applications. The platform allowed clients to provision and manage storage based not just on capacity, but on performance metrics like IOPS, throughput, and latency from a single, shared system. This model enabled clients to host numerous applications with varied workloads on a unified platform, aiming to reduce the costs associated with maintaining separate storage islands for different applications. Revenue was likely generated through the sale of its ElastiStor software and appliances.

A significant milestone in the company's journey was the creation and sponsorship of OpenEBS, an open-source Container Attached Storage (CAS) solution for Kubernetes. This project gained considerable traction within the cloud-native community. In a strategic move reflecting its increased focus on the Kubernetes ecosystem, CloudByte rebranded to MayaData in late 2017. As MayaData, the company continued to develop OpenEBS and launched MayaOnline, a SaaS platform for managing and monitoring Kubernetes clusters and their data layer. The journey culminated in November 2021, when DataCore Software, a major independent vendor of software-defined storage, announced the acquisition of MayaData, integrating its team and technology, including the prominent OpenEBS project, into its portfolio.

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