Yesterday we announced details on five patents that we were recently awarded. Being one of the very first companies to develop technology for data deduplication we have had an extensive portfolio of patent filings, however the US Patent Office has been so swamped with work that these are only now being issued, many of them eight years after filing. It's been very exciting to see these finally pop out the other end of the patent system, and we'r...
Last week Gartner released a new round of Cool Vendor reports. One of them was focused on Cool Vendors in Archiving, which I am pleased to say Permabit was included in as the only hardware vendor highlighted. Click here if you would like to read the full report.
It's nice to see that the industry, especially during these tough economic times, really is starting to see the value of archiving when it comes to saving organizations money. The early ...
I recently read an interesting report from Doug Reid, Equity Analyst for Computer Systems and Storage at Wall Street firm, Thomas Weisel Partners. Doug pointed to market share gains made by up and coming public storage vendors - Compellent, 3Par and Data Domain. He contrasted their growth with quarterly declines reported by Net App and EMC.
"The robust rate of data growth and associated storage cost appears to be driving an accelerated shift to ...