Permabit
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Information storage |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Key people |
Tom Cook, CEO and President |
| Products |
Albireo |
| Website | www.permabit.com |
Permabit Technology Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, is a technology company that designs, builds and sells OEM-embedded data optimization software solutions and network-attached storage appliances targeted at enterprise archiving applications[2]. The company offers a Data deduplication Software Development Kit along with a family of grid-based storage devices designed for customers and cloud storage providers with terabytes to petabytes of information.
Permabit claims significant advantages in scalability, cost, reliability and availability over similar network storage technologies.
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[edit] Products
[edit] Albireo
Permabit Albireo is a software library for data deduplication that is designed to be integrated as a component by computer storage and application software vendors. Albireo utilizes patented indexing technology with a low memory footprint that can function in single servers and multi-node grid systems, enabling it to scale duplications to petabytes of data. A 2010 test, validated by the Enterprise Strategy Group, demonstrated that Albireo is able to sustain speeds of over 77 GiB/s in a 16 node grid configuration[3]. Albireo works at a level below file or object storage and need not interfere at all with common enterprise storage features such as snapshots, replication or thin provisioning. Albireo functions as a deduplication advisory service and therefore does not capture its own data and become a single point of failure or compromise data integrity.
Wikibon uses a CORE (Capacity Optimization Ratio Effectiveness) methodology to measure the overall effectiveness of data reduction technologies[4]. Based on this methodology, Wikibon has assigned Albireo a CORE score of 254, the highest in the industry[5].
[edit] Albireo VDO
Permabit Albireo Virtual Disk Optimizer (VDO) is a data optimization solution for Linux-based storage appliance vendors. Albireo VDO consists of a virtual block device that is designed to offer sub-file deduplication, compression and thin-provisioning services at the Linux block level. Since Albireo is implemented at the block-level, it is fully compatible with Linux file systems including XFS and Ext3.
[edit] Permabit Network Attached Storage
Permabit offers two NAS based storage solutions: Permabit Enterprise Archive and Permabit Cloud Storage. The Enterprise Archive product provides storage from 16 TB to 6.9 PB of raw capacity and the Cloud Storage offering comes in half rack (96 TB) or full rack (216 TB) configurations that can be combined to achieve 6.9 PB of raw capacity. Both solutions offer advanced data protection schemes based on RAIN-EC technology. Other features, such as records retention, replication, deduplication and compression, are common across both products.
For data storage and access, the products support the standard NFS and CIFS interfaces.
The Enterprise Archive and Cloud Storage products are based on a grid architecture, with self-contained, distinct nodes working collaboratively to maintain the stored data. Individual nodes may be serviced or replaced without system interruption. To applications, the system is indistinguishable from a monolithic storage device.
[edit] Technologies
[edit] Data Optimization
Permabit's products incorporate a technology called Scalable Data Reduction, a combination of sub-file deduplication and traditional data compression. These technologies identify data in common within a single file and across multiple files in the system, allowing the system to store the redundant sections only once. The SHA-2 family of hash functions are used to assist in identifying duplicate data.
[edit] Data Protection
Instead of RAID, which protects data across multiple drives in a single chassis, the Permabit products use a custom developed technology named RAIN-EC, based on erasure codes that operate across chunks of data stored on different drives in different nodes. This allows for higher levels of reliability than available with RAID, as well as the ability to seamlessly add and remove storage in an active system.
[edit] Awards and recognition
- 2011
- Network Products Guide 2011 Innovative IT Company of the Year
- Network Products Guide 2011 Hot Companies Finalist
- 2010
- Wikibon CTO Award Best Enterprise Infrastructure Technology Innovations for 2010 Finalist
- Network Products Guide 2010 Product Innovation Awards — Storage Category
- Network Products Guide 2010 Hot Companies Finalist
- 2009
- Network Products Guide 2009 Hot Companies Finalist
- Gartner Cool Vendor in Archiving
- 2008
- Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com Product of the Year: Silver Medalist in Backup Hardware Category
- Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award
- Network Products Guide 2008 Most Valuable Performers: Tom Cook CEO & President
- MITX 2008 Technology Awards: Finalist, Data Management Category
- 2005
- Storage Networking World's Best Practices in Storage Award: Honorable Mention for Industry Regulation Compliance and Corporate Governance Category
- MITX 2005 Technology Awards: Finalist, Data Management Category
- InfoStor Magazine/Association of Storage Networking Professionals' (ASNP) 2005 Most Valuable Product Program: Finalist, Compliance and Retention Category
- Storage/SearchStorage.com's Products of the Year Award: Silver Award Winner, Backup & Disaster Recovery Category
- 2004
- InfoWorld 100
- Storage Networking World's Best Practices in Storage Award: Winner for Industry Regulation Compliance and Corporate Governance Category, October 2004
- Storage Networking World's Best Practices in Storage Award: Winner for Industry Regulation Compliance and Corporate Governance Category, April 2004
[edit] Technology Partners
- Atempo
- AXS-One
- BlueArc
- CA, Inc.
- CaminoSoft
- CommVault Systems
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- NorthSeas
- QStar
- Symantec
[edit] References
- ^ Shread, Paul (October 27, 2003), "Permabit Makes a Case for CAS", Enterprise IT Planet, http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/storage/news/article.php/3098981.
- ^ "Permabit Technology Corporation: Private Company Information". BusinessWeek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=778248. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
- ^ Permabit Albireo Breaks 77 GB/sec Performance Barrier for Primary Storage Deduplication, October 19, 2010, http://www.permabit.com/pressreleases/permabit-breaks-barrier.asp.
- ^ Measuring the Effectiveness of Capacity Optimization Technologies, January 4, 2011, http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Measuring_the_Effectiveness_of_Capacity_Optimization_Technologies.
- ^ Permabit extends CORE Score with New De-duplication Version, February 16, 2011, http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Permabit_extends_CORE_Score_with_New_De-duplication_Version.
