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Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with a VP of Research who specializes in storage deduplication for a leading global technology research firm along with Tom Cook, Permabit CEO. We talked for a while about Permabit’s data optimization technologies and all the success Permabit is seeing with OEMs in the Flash, NAS and SAN enterprise storage markets. Then we briefed the analyst on the developments in our ready-to-run Albireo VDO solut...
At Permabit, we've invested significant time examining different data types and how they benefit from data optimization. Within an individual file, potential space savings benefits from compression or deduplication are constrained by the choice of optimization techniques, the file format and the file content. Typical space savings from optimizations for a given file type are predictable and well understood. For example, using the popular LZ compr...
In my previous blog, I identified three potential inhibitors to the adoption of deduplication on primary storage: performance, cost and scalability. Sure enough, the early adopters I've spoken with have all run into these issues. They are all looking forward to having Albireo-enabled solutions hit the market. Last week I discussed how storage systems that implement Permabit's Albireo can avoid traditional performance penalties, but what about o...
Recently I've been thinking about the value of primary storage deduplication for structured data environments. Enterprise databases have been the target for data optimization techniques for some time. All of the major DB vendors have had integrated compression in their products for the last couple of years, with some even going so far as to introduce LOB-level deduplication capabilities. At the same time, both backup vendors and backup storage ap...
Last week I talked about deduplication and its advantages for VMware environments. One question I heard from a reader, "if the savings are as great as you're saying, why isn't deduplication in VMware environments everywhere today?" And on the surface, I think the answer is simple, the key challenge to VMware deduplication is performance. IT organizations have come to understand how deduplication saves on storage costs, but they are genera...
We've all watched over the past several years as VMware virtualization has revolutionized IT, instigating the most significant consolidation of computer hardware assets in history. What you may not know is that VMware deployments offer one of the most attractive use cases for data optimization in a primary storage environment. A great example of this comes from our friends over at NetApp®. Shortly after releasing their deduplication feature, Net...
Permabit recently began shipping storage solutions based on the HP Proliant SL6000 Scalable System. As part of our platform addition we signed on as an HP Business Partner in the HP OEM program. There are three key benefits to Permabit customers from the HP relationship: We were able to reduce the overall cost/GB of our equipment by 20% from previous models We cut the power footprint by 28% Our relationship with HP allows us to offer HP onsi...
In my previous posts, I discussed how Permabit began to extend our existing technology to address a new type of storage we called the 'enterprise archive'. Purpose built for the long-term storage of static information an 'enterprise archive' would address the problems associated with long-term storage bloat in the coming years by being massively scalable, cost effective, 24x7 available and securely protected. Coming in with our background, secu...
In my last post, realizing that the typical enterprise storage growth rates of 50-100% per year were not sustainable with current technology, Permabit began to extend our existing technology to address a new type of storage we called the “enterprise archive”. Purpose built for the long-term storage of static information an “enterprise archive” would address the problems associated with long-term storage bloat in the coming years by being ...
I’m Louis Imershein, Director of Product Management at Permabit Technology Corporation. When I joined Permabit over 5 years ago, we were a company focused on storage solutions for compliance and governance of information. Right around that time, we began to understand that the typical enterprise storage growth rates of 50-100% per year were not sustainable with current archive technology. Permabit embarked on a new course expanding be...