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A Sea Change in Big Data Deduplication

This week we welcomed Big Data storage company, SeaChange to our Albireo partner program. (SeaChange adds deduplication)  SeaChange is a leader in media-centric cloud storage and will embed our Albireo Data Optimization Software into the SeaChange Universal MediaLibrary (UML), the only media storage that supports both real time play-to-air and high performance production. This announcement turned heads in the storage industry as a commonly ...

Welcome to our New Web Site

Keep a watch out for disruptive data optimized storage products in 2012. Solutions built with Albireo and delivered by leading hardware, software and service providers are on the way. From SOHO/SMB appliances, to flash-based, high performance enterprise storage and cloud, Permabit Albireo software massively improves performance and efficiency of data creation, transmission and storage. Explore the examples of Albireo deployments on our site...

Floods in Thailand – Accelerates adoption of SSDs and dedupe

Flooding in Thailand is driving up prices and constricting availability of HDDs.  A Gartner Note, “How to Cope with a Worldwide Hard-Disk Shortage in 2012” (G00227631) by Valdis Filks and Stanley Zaffos, December 6 2011, predicts:"HDD costs will increase by up to 20% in 2012".  Their number one recommendation to cope with the shortage is: "Accelerate the deployment of storage efficiency improving technologies and procedures." Data growth...

Dedupe 2.0…Again?

Well, again we see that one of our deduplication market competitors is leveraging Permabit strategy and content. First it was Symantec with “Dedupe Everywhere” and this time it is HP using our concept of “Dedupe 2.0” in their recent announcements regarding StoreOnce.  Just to get some facts clear, we launched our Dedupe 2.0 campaign back in August 2009 when we introduced  www.dedupe2.com.  For us Dedupe 1.0 was all about backup.  Dedu...

Interoperability is OK, but Optimization is Optimal

We are at VMworld this week and it should be interesting as VMware continues to press their aggressive growth agenda. We are here because our OEM data optimization solution, Albireo dedupes VMDK and VDI environments like nobodies' business (up to 100X) and this is a great week to talk with OEM customers and vendors who are serious about storage efficiency. We have two announcements at the show. The first is around Permabit extending our VMware A...