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Archive for June, 2008

Enterprise Archive Defined

The principal storage market that Permabit addresses, with the aptly named Permabit Enterprise Archive appliance, is the area of enterprise archive. Analyst George Crump does a great job explaining this market and its requirements in his white paper The Enterprise Archive Defined, but I'll take a crack at a brief summary here. Enterprises today are faced with tremendously growing storage requirements. Any market analyst (or, better yet, scien...

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog and our new website! We've been busy updating everything to be crisp and to clearly explain how Permabit can solve your enterprise archive problems, and relieve pressure on overloaded (and expensive) primary and backup systems. In addition to this blog, I'll also be doing a series of whiteboard discussions on storage topics. The first explains different causes of failures in RAID systems, an adjunct to our white paper on...