Permabit Technology Corporation has entered into a partnership with DataGlobal, makers of end-to-end enterprise data analysis and storage management software deployed across Global 2000 businesses.

Industry analysts report that between 40% and 80% of the data on high cost primary storage is static and infrequently accessed. Moving this data to a cost-effective value tier saves critical budget dollars and improves overall enterprise storage efficiency. The Permabit partnership with DataGlobal provides customers with a seamless solution to analyze and migrate data to a value tier storage solution. DataGlobal delivers the most advanced enterprise-wide data analysis and archiving solution available today. Permabit produces a combined price/performance storage solution that provides long-term data protection and massive scalability, at an effective price of less than $1 per gigabyte leveraging patented data deduplication technology. By moving inactive/persistent data to the Permabit value tier, DataGlobal Enterprise Resource Suite (ERS) optimizes enterprise storage IT infrastructures greatly reducing primary and secondary storage consumption.

• The combined Permabit-DataGlobal offering lowers the total cost of data storage for customers and delivers an optimized storage environment that enables the enterprise to efficiently manage storage resources. Permabit's value tier storage solution provides long term data savings and protection. The Permabit Enterprise Archive solution easily integrates in an ERS enterprise environment utilizing ERS' data analysis, migration policy and archiving modules to identify and move data seamlessly and without user intervention to Permabit value tier storage.
• Permabit creates a storage environment that meets critical business objectives for secure, long-term data retention at an affordable cost. Permabit's Enterprise Archive meets critical data archiving requirements such as 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. Applying patented storage technology, Permabit helps companies achieve the greater levels of efficiency that are demanded in today's economic environment.
• The DataGlobal Enterprise Resource Suite ERS is a complete, cost-effective software suite for analyzing, monitoring, quantifying, qualifying, controlling and archiving data involved in IT storage environments - regardless of systems' complexity, size, heterogeneity or locations. The data analysis module is extremely effective at identifying static/persistent data that should be moved to less costly storage tier, such as the Permabit Enterprise Archive. Combining the DataGlobal archiving module for data archiving, data retention, rendering, single instance of data, and automatic retrieval capabilities with Permabit Enterprise Archive delivers a complete solution for enterprises that need multi-petabyte scalability, data availability and protection with an industry leading price point.

"Companies are continuing to struggle in their efforts to reign in their data storage budgets. By partnering with DataGlobal, we are able to offer customers a combined solution that delivers seamless enterprise wide IT storage optimization - a management tool that can quickly and easily identify stale or stagnant data coupled with a highly cost effective tier of storage. DataGlobal has continued to prove their value in Global 2000 enterprise environments while Permabit is leading the way in value tier storage solutions driving the cost below $1 per/GB. Together we make a very attractive alternative to enterprise customers looking to reduce costs and avoid continued spending on primary and secondary storage products," said Tom Cook, President and CEO, Permabit.

"DataGlobal looks at its partnership with Permabit as a natural extension of DataGlobal's mission of providing end-to-end data management tools. With the Permabit partnership we can offer our collective customers an easy and powerful solution to provide transparent data migration to archive storage. Permabit fills an essential gap in providing our customers with effective storage tiered solutions," said Wolfgang Munz, President and CEO, DataGlobal.

"The case for establishing a value tier of storage can no longer be ignored by today's enterprises. The combined cost savings of reduced primary storage expenditures, improved retention and significantly enhanced IT staff efficiency makes a value tier of storage a must have. The remaining road block was how to move data to that tier. The partnership between Permabit and DataGlobal addresses that problem and provides IT Managers with a seamless approach to getting there," said George Crump, Lead Analyst, Storage Switzerland.