Permabit Enterprise Archive Certified by BlueArc

Permabit Technology Corporation announced that the Permabit Enterprise Archive product has been certified by BlueArc Corporation. The Value Tier storage solution provided by Permabit is optimized for cost–effective, long–term data retention, and effortlessly integrates behind the BlueArc Titan solution. Permabit produces a combined price/performance solution that provides long–term data protection (250x more reliable than RAID 6) and massive scalability, at an effective price of less than $1 per/GB.

The announcement that BlueArc’s Titan 3000 network storage family has been tested for interoperability with Permabit’s massively scalable enterprise disk–based archive solutions is welcome news for enterprises looking to manage their archive and compliance data more cost–effectively. This partnership allows companies to efficiently allocate resources by allowing BlueArc technology to manage an organization’s high utilization and high performance data on Tier 0/1, while moving static and compliance data to a much more cost–effective, yet highly reliable value tier storage platform managed by Permabit.

The benefits to the customer extend beyond the cost/performance arena. By moving inactive data to the Permabit Enterprise Archive, the Titan server is able to ensure that the transactional tier performs efficiently and backup cycles and associated costs are significantly reduced. The combined BlueArc–Permabit solution drives down the total cost of storage for the customer and delivers an optimized storage environment that enables the enterprise to efficiently balance performance and cost according to its needs.

Too much data in the primary data store costs companies in operational efficiency and, more importantly, in IT budget impacts. Industry analysts point to the excessive static (persistent or stale) data that resides in primary storage. Estimates say that 40% to more than 80% of the data in primary data stores is static and not used on a daily or consistent basis. Moving that data to a more cost–effective value tier, such as a Permabit Enterprise Archive, will save IT critical budget dollars.

BlueArc Titan provides industry–leading network storage throughput and transparency in the enterprise environment by utilizing FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology to provide the fastest and most scalable NAS solutions in the industry. Integrated into Titan is the capability to transparently migrate data between multiple tiers of storage while providing a single user view. The BlueArc Data Migrator enables organizations to automatically balance the tradeoffs between performance and storage cost–efficiency, while another feature, Dynamic Read Caching, can be used to substantially reduce data latency.

“In today’s economy, the operative word for any enterprise organization is value. This partnership with BlueArc enables companies to offload upwards of 75 – 80% of their data to a more value–focused storage tier at a fraction of the cost they are currently paying for primary storage – in most cases less than $1 per GB. BlueArc technology represents the gold standard for high–end, critical data management and Permabit integrates seamlessly with their technology to provide the secure and reliable layer of storage needed to handle the volume of data enterprises are forced to manage,” said Tom Cook, President and CEO, Permabit.

“Permabit is well established as the leader in long–term data retention systems, and BlueArc is pleased to partner with them to deliver both high performance and cost–effective tiers of storage in a unified solution. Together, we provide exceptional value to our joint enterprise customers who need an easy and effective way to manage their data,” said Bridget Warwick, Vice President of Marketing, BlueArc.

“This is another example of companies partnering so they can focus on what they do best to reduce data center costs and increase IT efficiency. With this announcement, a customer can leverage BlueArc’s high performance unified storage solution for active data and their data management capabilities like Data Migrator, along with Permabit’s industry leading value tier for archive and data retention. The combined solutions can dramatically reduce storage expenditures, while at the same time increase performance and efficiency,” said George Crump, Founder, Storage Switzerland.