Albireo Deduplication for Cloud Object Storage
The amount of electronic data stored worldwide is on track to exceed 35 zettabytes by 2020. As the data footprint expands, the process of storing and managing information becomes more complex. By 2015, nearly 20% of this information will be “touched” by (and as much as 10% maintained in) the cloud. This represents a tremendous growth opportunity for today’s online IT service providers, requiring capital outlays to build out equipment and bandwidth capabilities. Cloud-based Object Storage providers in particular stand to benefit from these growth trends. Object storage, which first gained prominence with Amazon’s S3 service offering in 2006, provides the most popular scheme for storing information in the cloud. Since then, many infrastructure providers have emerged with solutions in this space.
Permabit Albireo is the industry’s first purpose-built data deduplication software designed to meet the needs of cloud framework suppliers who wish to offer their customers lower costs for the transmission and storage of data. Albireo delivers source-based deduplication at the sub-file level, which can be flexibly deployed in cloud storage and cloud server (virtual machine) architectures without sacrificing existing functionality. With an Albireo-enabled cloud framework, service providers can leverage their existing R&D investments while reducing their capital expense for storage and accelerating time to market for must-have, industry-leading data optimization capabilities.
Business Benefits
- Reduces bandwidth requirements by lowering the number of writes to the cloud
- Scales with ever-expanding service requirements
- Lowers cost of cloud storage by reducing the amount of data stored
- Improves quality of service and increases customer satisfaction
- Reduces maintenance costs because less storage is needed
Technical Benefits
- Scales out to PBs of storage to address rapid storage expansion requirements
- Increases reliability by reducing both wear on disk and load on the network
- Increases efficiency by lowering cost per GB and reducing network traffic
- Provides collision-resistant SHA-256 hashes to ensure data security
- Supports convergent encryption models to ensure privacy for shared data in multi-tenant environments
- Addresses cross-platform host requirements by supporting popular OS platforms as source deduplication targets
Applicable Permabit Software
Applicable Technologies
- Content-Aware Segmentation
- High Performance Index Engine
- Grid (Scale-out) Index
- Hard Disk Optimized Deduplication