CloudByte Receives Industry Recognition with Three Award Nominations

CAMPBELL, California, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Company Honored as a "Hot Technology" Winner of the 8th Annual 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Award; Also Named as a Finalist for Both TiE50 and Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards

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CloudByte, the first company to guarantee quality of service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, announced today that it is a winner of the 8th Annual 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products award in the "Hot Technology" category. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 during the 8^th annual dinner and presentations. CloudByte won the award for its patent-pending storage QoS technology, which allows service providers to easily and affordably host performance-sensitive enterprise applications in the cloud.

The Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.

CloudByte also announced that it has been shortlisted for two other major industry awards: TiE50 and Red Herring Top 100 North America. The TiE50 awards will be announced at TiEcon, which takes place in Santa Clara, May 17-18. The winners of the Red Herring Top 100 North America awards will be revealed at the Red Herring North America forum, which celebrates the top private companies in the North America region and takes place on May 21-23 in Monterey, California.

"I am pleased to see the industry recognition we have been getting these past few months as we are expanding our business in the U. S.," said Felix Xavier, founder and CTO of CloudByte. "ElastiStor has attracted tremendous interest from cloud service providers so far, validating our efforts, as well as the need for a new class of storage solutions in both public and private cloud infrastructures.

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 to easily host performance-sensitive applications in the cloud. With CloudByte's on-demand performance provisioning, service providers can easily scale to thousands of applications and meet their most challenging performance demands. Established in 2011 by technology executives from companies such as HP, IBM, NetApp, and Novell, CloudByte is backed by 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.

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