CloudByte Announces Channel Partner Program

CloudByte, Inc.
announced details of its channel partner program, which targets VARs, system
integrators, as well as hardware manufacturers and IT solution vendors.

With this program, CloudByte offers its partners the opportunity to build
storage solutions by simply installing the ElastiStor software on the
industry-standard hardware of their choice. It 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 integration with virtualization platforms
in the New Innovator Pavilion at VMworld US 2013, San Francisco, CA, August
25-29, 2013.

CloudByte has been recently named a 2013 Emerging Vendor by UBM Tech Channel’s
CRN Magazine. The annual list highlights hot tech start-ups making an impact on
the channel and an impression on the tech industry as a whole. These
up-and-coming technology vendors have recently introduced a new product or
technology that is not only innovative, but generates the high margins solution
providers require in today’s competitive marketplace.

"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 Pvt Ltd. "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, VP of business development, DataON. "By designing a turnkey
HA 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, CEO,
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 support to drive revenue
growth together.

Benefits of becoming 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 tools, information, as
  well as case entry and management.
• Ongoing web-based and onsite training.

ElastiStor has been verified to work with technology
platforms including vSphere, 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 4TB of storage is available.