CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - April 21, 2009) - Permabit Technology Corporation, the leading
innovator of value tiered storage solutions for the enterprise, today
announced the release of the Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series
Model 4010. The Data Center Series Model 4010 leverages highly efficient
Intel processor and Seagate drive technology to cost-effectively and
securely store fixed and inactive information for long-term data storage.
By leveraging this value tier of storage, data can be offloaded from
expensive primary storage yet still have online accessibility. This new
platform delivers an effective cost under $1 per gigabyte, setting a new
industry baseline for high value, massively scalable disk storage. The
Permabit Enterprise Archive contains built-in technologies including data
deduplication, data protection, high availability, WORM, and snapshots.
Permabit Data Center Series Model 4010 Features/Components:
-- Cost Effective: Delivering value tier storage for less than $1 per GB*
-- Massively Scalable: By introducing 1 TB drives, individual storage
node capacity is doubled to 4 TB. The Permabit Data Center Series can now
scale from 32 TB to 4.6 PB of raw storage capacity; making it the
industry's only storage solution capable of managing the massive long term
data requirements of today's large enterprise environments.
-- Performance: By combining software enhancements and next generation
Intel processors, the 4010 dramatically improves performance by more than
280% from previous versions.
-- Power Efficiency: By migrating to a single quad-core processor from
multi dual core processors and increasing drive density, power consumption
is reduced by over 70%.
-- Protection: Patented RAIN-EC grid architecture provides the most
scalable and reliable storage in the industry.
-- In-line Deduplication: Data is deduplicated in-line and real-time
saving storage space overhead and eliminating the need for a "dedupe
window."
-- File lock-down: Built-in file-level WORM capabilities ensures data
immutability and enables read/write co-mingling in the same system
eliminating the need for dedicated separate WORM based systems.
The Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series:
-- Permabit optimizes the storage environment by providing a value tier
of storage to store fixed information thereby offloading data from primary
storage. Permabit creates a storage environment that meets critical
business objectives for secure, long-term data retention at an affordable
cost. Applying patented storage technology, Permabit helps companies
achieve the greater levels of efficiency and cost control that are demanded
in today's economic environment.
-- Permabit's Data Center Series meets critical data archiving
requirements such as cost-efficiency, scalability, security, availability
and flexibility. Patented RAIN-EC technology enables Permabit to provide
scalable data protection that scales to the multiple-petabyte level. Its
reliable data protection is 250 times more effective than RAID 6 and is
specifically designed for next-generation large capacity disk drives by
using advanced Erasure Coding algorithms.
-- At the heart of the Data Center Series lies a storage grid
architecture that provides unparalleled performance, data protection and
seamless technology upgrade making expensive data migration a thing of the
past. By using Permabit solutions, companies take advantage of the most
advanced, least costly, and most manageable value tier storage solution, so
they stay far ahead of the storage cost curve.
Supporting Quotes:
"We initially purchased the Permabit solution to handle compliance and data
retrieval issues. A dedicated IT member for these requests was proving to
be a costly and inefficient proposition. With Permabit, the speed of
retrieval has been off the charts. Basically what took 2-3 days now takes
a few minutes. With Permabit, we have been able to move the majority of our
data to a value tier while keeping it all online. This allows business
users across the organization to access the data themselves, taking IT
completely out of the loop which represents a significant cost savings
while freeing up valuable resources. We have just added 4010 storage to our
existing Data Center Series deployment. Adding the additional storage
required zero downtime, was completed in just a few hours and did not
require any manual migrations."
~ Matt Pittman, Vice President, MIS Infrastructure, Penson Financial
Services
"The focus for any business leader today is on achieving greater levels of
efficiency and generating maximum value out of investments. This certainly
holds true for IT departments which have been amongst the hardest hit in
this economic downturn. As a result, enterprises are making a fundamental
shift away from the 'add another big box' approach to a more cost conscious
and value oriented method of handling their continuing onslaught of data.
What Permabit does is help customers offload the inactive data which is
consuming up to 75 percent or more of their costly primary storage.
Customers and prospects are often shocked to learn that we can move this
data to a secure and online solution for less than one dollar per gigabyte,
a mere fraction of what they are currently paying."
~ Tom Cook, President and CEO, Permabit
"Through Permabit's advanced architecture, we provide our customers with
software and hardware upgrades that don't require a re-architecture or
painful migration to a new platform. The entire process is seamless,
secure and efficient which allows us to pass along savings from new
technology components to our customers. Our goal at Permabit is to provide
our customers with the most technically advanced and efficient value tier
of storage. The release of the model 4010 has enabled us to further extend
that goal and provides our customers with the cost effective alternative
they need in this difficult market."
~ Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer, Permabit
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About Permabit
Permabit delivers next generation disk-based value storage solutions that
dramatically reduce primary storage costs by greater than 10 times. With
industry leading patented technology, the Permabit Enterprise Archive™
provides massively scalable data deduplicated disk storage solutions that
cost a fraction of what it takes to manage tape or optical storage, with
advanced data protection and reduction technologies that offer decades of
reliable online information access. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a
technical and business team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more information, visit:
www.permabit.com.
* Cost assumes a modest data reduction rate of 3:1
Permabit, the Permabit logo, Permabit Enterprise Archive, and Scalable Data
Reduction are trademarks of Permabit Technology Corporation, Inc. in the
U.S. and other countries.