We don’t cover only big-time heavy-hitters on #theCUBE — startups get lots of love too. Host Jeff Frick got to chat with CTO and Founder of Cloudbyte, Felix Xavier at the annual #OpenStack Summit 2013 today. Jumping right into it’s first OpenStack event, Cloudbyte had big news on Monday, announcing integration with OpenStack block storage Cinder. CloudByte, one of the first companies to guarantee quality of service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, is an emerging player in the increasingly vicious storage wars.

As part of its announcement and its integration with OpenStack Block Storage Cinder, the company has developed a driver for the Cinder framework that enables service providers to provision QoS-aware CloudByte storage volumes right from OpenStack clients and API. Technology to serve multi-tendency. There are fundamental issues with supporting the delivery of storage, enterprise storage, and CouldByte is a new class of storage — classifying performance and class on the fly.

“The development of the ElastiStor driver for OpenStack is an important milestone for us as we integrate deeper with the open source computing platform,” said Felix Xavier. “This integration follows our recent VMware and Citrix certifications and development of the vCenter plugin, reinforcing our commitment to easily integrate our storage solutions within cloud service providers’ ecosystems. Unlike legacy storage solutions, ElastiStor is architected for today’s cloud environments and allows cloud service providers to host performance-sensitive applications without creating any dedicated storage silos.” -Forbes

A start-up that began in India, Cloudbyte recently moved stateside to be closer to its customer base.  Xavier said that they have had a lot of traction with US customers, and the largest service providers are in fact in the US, too.  When asked about his unique opinion of cloud adoption in India, Xavier said he believed both India and the rest of the world lagged behind a bit on cloud adoption. “It depends in terms of the size of the market,” Xavier says. “India isn’t at scale of the service providers in the market.”

Service providers can now create, snapshot and manage CloudByte storage volumes using Cinder API or the OpenStack Horizon client. Cloudbyte is a start-up that…well…has some bite.