Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series Model 4010

Permabit Technology Corporation 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 cos–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.

“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,” said Matt Pittman, Vice President, MIS Infrastructure, Penson Financial Services, Inc.

“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,” said 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,” said Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer, Permabit.