The Marathon of Storage
Yesterday was a holiday for some folks. Many people weren’t aware that Monday was Patriot’s Day which also coincides with the running of the Boston Marathon. So if you are with a company headquartered or have a remote office in New England, you more than likely had yesterday as a day off!
The Boston Marathon had me thinking about the grueling task of running mile after mile, hour after hour. It’s definitely not a race where you lace up, do 30 seconds of stretches and go running. It takes many months of preparation and discipline and thinking about the ending outcome (for many that means just completing the race).
This is analogous with long term data storage. You can’t just copy data to a hard drive today and expect it to be there some time way out in the future. This isn’t a “sprint” where I only need to access data over the next few weeks. Rather, it’s a “marathon” where I have to keep the information available for decades. Yet, we all know that we cannot predict what technology will be available at that time. That’s what makes Permabit’s news today so crucial.
Today we introduced the new Model 4010 of the Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series. This model leverages new Intel Xeon processor and Seagate 1 TB disk technology. With our grid storage architecture, you can seamlessly add these new storage nodes into an existing Data Center Series deployment and never have to worry about manual migrations or forklift upgrades. It’s all handled automatically for you. And guess what? When we introduce the next generation processor and drive technology you can do the same thing!
What’s more impressive however is what we’re doing with the cost of storage. By continually passing the savings to our customers by leveraging next generation technologies, we continue to drive down the cost per gigabyte of disk based storage. With the 4010 the effective cost per gigabyte is now down to below $1! And, we’re not just talking about JBOD or High Density disk here. We’re talking a fully featured, true “Value Tier” of storage. For less than $1 per gigabyte, you get the most reliable data protection technology (RAIN-EC) – 250 times more reliable than RAID 6! It also includes built-in technologies including data deduplication, high availability, WORM, encryption and snapshots. Now how is that for value!
Come check out our new website to find out more! www.permabit.com