Permabit Added to TVAR Solutions’ GSA Schedule

Next Generation Disk Archive Solution from Permabit Technology Now Readily Available to Federal and Commercial Organizations

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—February 25, 2009—Permabit Technology Corporation, the industry’s leading innovator of scalable, data–reduced storage for enterprise archiving, today announced its addition to TVAR Solutions’ GSA Schedule.  TVAR Solutions is a technical value–added reseller that delivers best of breed products which enhance and protect the infrastructures of Federal and commercial organizations.

• The TVAR stamp of approval means that government agencies and contractors can purchase Permabit products directly with the knowledge that they have been tested and approved by the TVAR team of experts.  TVAR Solutions has built a strong reputation of quality amongst its customer base by only partnering with the top technology solutions in the industry.

• At a time when IT departments are ultra cost sensitive and face increasing pressure to manage larger amounts of data more succinctly and efficiently; Permabit is able to provide organizations the solutions to better manage their information technology issues while returning a larger ROI and a decreased TCO.

• In addition, with the onset of a new administration, government agencies specifically can expect a new series of stringent data management policies.  The ability for these agencies and contractors to select from an approved list of technology solutions that best fit their particular needs goes a long way in paring down costs and speeding time to implementation.

• Data security and reliability continues to be the focus within government organizations, especially when long term data retention is needed.  Permabit’s unique ability to combine general purpose data archiving with WORM based compliance archiving and encryption within one storage system makes it easier and more cost effective to deploy disk based archiving solutions today.

• Data longevity is another issues government agencies need to assess when storing data for long term archiving.  Permabit has a self–managing, self–healing, thin provisioned archive solution that never requires a fork-lift upgrade.  Its grid based architecture allows for seamless technology refreshes without ever having to take the system offline.

Supporting Quotes:
“Permabit is very excited to be partnering with a trusted reseller like TVAR Solutions.  It is an exciting opportunity for us to gain further credibility within the extremely important Federal market place.  Agencies and contractors who have always looked to TVAR Solutions for sound and trusted technical advice can now deal directly with Permabit for their data archive needs with the same level of confidence they have enjoyed all along.”  Tom Cook, President and CEO Permabit

“TVAR Solutions believes in only providing best of breed technologies to our customers.  With our strong emphasis and expertise in the government sector, there is no room for error.  We must provide rock solid, reliable and, in these times, cost effective solutions to our clients.  Permabit provides us with a tier of storage that can help our customers save millions of dollars in their IT budgets while providing a long term reliable storage repository for critical and sensitive information.” David Saunders, President and CEO TVAR Solutions

Supporting Resources:
Permabit Media Center
Permabits & Petabytes
Executive photos & images
Permabit

About Permabit
Permabit delivers next generation disk–based archiving solutions that dramatically reduce primary storage costs by greater than 10 times.  With patented technology, the Permabit Enterprise Archive™ provides a massively scalable disk archive that costs a fraction of what it takes to manage tape or optical, with advanced data protection and reduction technologies that offer decades of reliable information access.  Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  For more information, visit:  www.permabit.com.

About TVAR Solutions
TVAR Solutions, the Technical Value Added Reseller, combines Senior Technical Consulting with the latest in technology for the design, implementation, and management of open systems based computing and storage infrastructures.  Our capabilities include the protection of corporate data, providing highly available mission critical applications, and the virtualization of computing resources.  TVAR Solutions, LLC, is privately held and headquartered in McLean, VA.  For more information, please visit:  www.tvarsolutions.com.

###

Permabit, the Permabit logo, Permabit Enterprise Archive, and Scalable Data Reduction are trademarks of Permabit Technology Corporation, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries