Disk-Based Archive delivers scalable data reduction.
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Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series ensures long-term integrity of information for large enterprises. It delivers disk-based information retention and supports scalability up to 3 petabytes of raw disk capacity. While Scalable Data Reduction technology minimizes storage footprint and reduces administration expenditure, RAIN-EC technology provides archive data protection capable of withstanding multiple simultaneous failures.
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Permabit Delivers Multi-Petabyte Archive with Scalable Data Reduction Aimed at Large Enterprises
New Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series Meets the Demand for Reliable, Cost-Effective, Disk-Based Storage for Long-Term Data Archiving
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 29 -- Permabit Technology Corporation, the industry's leading innovator of scalable, data-reduced storage for enterprise archiving, today announced the launch of a new product, the Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series. Featuring patent-pending technologies including RAIN-EC and Scalable Data Reduction (SDR), the Data Center Series ensures long-term integrity of information for large enterprises while shrinking operating expenses. The solution delivers disk-based information retention that is 250 times more reliable than RAID 6 technology while supporting scalability up to 3 petabytes of raw disk capacity. Taking into account the data reduction Permabit's SDR technology can achieve, multiple petabytes of data can be stored for as little as 33 cents per gigabyte. With this revolutionary new technology, Permabit is delivering the industry's safest and most cost-effective disk-based archiving solution.
"A dirty little secret in IT is that 60 to 80 percent of the data sitting on expensive, transaction-optimized primary storage today is static. This data is vital to the organization, but it is infrequently accessed and belongs on a different tier of storage," said Heidi Biggar, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Permabit's Enterprise Archive Data Center Series architecture addresses this problem at its root, enabling organizations to move huge volumes of static data to more cost-effective tiers with the assurance that business SLAs will continue to be met."
In an uncertain economic climate, with increasing budget pressures and data center utility constraints, companies are looking for ways to trim operational expenses while maintaining service levels and managing the inevitable data expansion. Permabit's Enterprise Archive Data Center Series addresses the needs of large enterprises head on and leads the industry through its technical innovations. SDR technology minimizes the storage footprint and dramatically reduces administration and operating costs while Permabit's new RAIN-EC technology provides archive data protection capable of withstanding multiple simultaneous failures.
How Permabit Enterprise Archive is Different
The Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series is the only disk-based archiving product that addresses all four of the major archiving needs of large enterprises as identified by analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland in his recent paper, "The Enterprise Archive Defined: Scalability, Cost Efficiency, Availability and Secure Protection."
-- Massively Scalable -- Permabit's RAIN-EC technology and grid architecture enable up to 3 petabytes of raw disk storage while maintaining I/O throughput up to hundreds of megabytes per second.
-- Cost Effective -- The combination of SDR, RAIN-EC, and standard hardware achieves real data storage costs from $0.33 to $2.33 per gigabyte, which is significantly lower as compared to the industry range of $25 to $75 per gigabyte.
-- Always Available -- Grid architecture with separate access nodes and storage nodes provides online, full availability, allowing for rolling upgrades with no-touch migration and rapid retrievals.
-- Reliably Protected -- 250 times more reliable than RAID 6 technology, RAIN-EC is coupled with data verification, replication, WORM, and encryption for redundancy and ensured data integrity.
Statistics Demonstrate the Market's Need for an Enterprise Archive Solution
-- 90 percent of data created is static 90 days after its creation. (Source: Storage Networking Industry Association)
-- 56 percent of data recovered is less than two days' old. (Source: ESG Research, "The Evolution of Enterprise Data Protection")
-- Digital archive capacity will increase nearly tenfold between 2005 and 2010, to more than 25,000 petabytes. (Source: ESG Research, "Digital Archiving: End-User Survey & Market Forecast, 2006-2010")
"Enterprise archiving is a $6 billion market that has not been adequately served until now. Customers tell us they are frustrated with the unreliability of optical and tape disks, the lack of scalability of other archiving solutions, and the high cost of using primary disk storage to store fixed content," explained Tom Cook, CEO, Permabit. "We built the Data Center Series to be everything a scalable archive should be -- and must be -- in order to meet the stringent business requirements of the large enterprise."
The Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series offers up to 96 terabytes of raw capacity per storage grid and enables 32 grids to be combined into a unified system for seamless scalability. This solution is available today at a starting list price of $5 per gigabyte, with Scalable Data Reduction providing a realized cost that can be dramatically less.
About Permabit
Permabit is the leading innovator of scalable data reduced storage for enterprise archiving. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, visit http://www.permabit.com/.
Permabit, the Permabit logo, Permabit Enterprise Archive, Scalable Data Reduction, SDR, and RAIN-EC are trademarks of Permabit Technology Corporation, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
CONTACT: Elizabeth Zaborowska of Trainer Communications, +1-510-219-8127, pm@trainercomm.com, for Permabit Technology Corporation
