Albireo Deduplication for Cloud Virtual Desktops and Servers

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. Cloud-based server and desktop Virtual Machine (VM) providers in particular stand to benefit from these growth trends.  Gartner estimates that 5% of all VMs will be hosted by cloud providers by 2014.  Infrastructure providers have emerged with solutions to help manage and protect this massive pool of desktops and servers.

Permabit Albireo is the industry’s first purpose-built data deduplication software designed to meet the needs of cloud framework suppliers who wish to host VMs with market-leading efficiency. Albireo VDO delivers ready-to-run source-based deduplication at the sub-file level, which can be flexibly deployed in cloud VM architectures without sacrificing existing functionality. In addition, Albireo SDK can be used as a foundation to optimize network bandwidth for infrastructure services migrating VMs from the enterprise to the cloud and back. With an Albireo-enabled cloud framework, service providers can leverage their existing R&D while accelerating time to market and differentiate their offering with must-have, industry-leading data optimization capabilities.

Business Benefits

  • Cuts the amount of storage required for Virtual Machines by 35X or more
  • Reduces the impact of boot storms on VM storage
  • Improves performance for VMs writing large quantities of redundant data
  • Reduces bandwidth requirements for VM migration between the enterprise and cloud providers
  • Improves quality of service and increases customer satisfaction

Technical Benefits

  • Increases performance by reducing the amount of data written to disk
  • Improves reliability by reducing wear on the flash-based storage typically used in these environments
  • Increases efficiency by offering fine-grain (4 KB) block deduplication – the most effective way of lowering cost per GB
  • Keeps hard costs under control by requiring minimal memory and CPU resources
  • Simplifies management with storage virtualization and thin provisioning capabilities

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Permabit is a recognized leader in data efficiency technology. We enable OEMs to leverage their R&D investment, increase margin, accelerate time to market and achieve competitive advantage. Permabit Albireo software massively improves performance and efficiency of data creation, transmission and storage. Solutions built with Albireo are being delivered by leading hardware, software and service providers.

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Permabit Albireo is the industry’s first purpose-built OEM data deduplication software designed to meet the needs of hardware, software, and service providers who wish to expand their existing solutions without negatively impacting differentiating capabilities or reducing performance. Albireo delivers deduplication at the sub-file level and can be flexibly integrated into existing or next-generation storage and platform architectures. Albireo deduplication is seamlessly deployed in primary, archive, and backup storage across the data center and the cloud. With Albireo, OEMs leverage their R&D investments while accelerating time to market for must-have, industry leading data optimization capabilities.

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