Permabit Technology and BlueArc Combine to Achieve Better Total Storage Value for Joint Customers

Technology Partnership Lowers Storage Costs, and Establishes Value Tier

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — May 27, 2009 — Permabit Technology Corporation, the leading innovator of value tiered storage optimization solutions for the enterprise, today announced that the Permabit Enterprise Archive™ product has been certified by BlueArc Corporation, the leader in scalable, high–performance network storage. The Value Tier storage solution provided by Permabit is optimized for cost–effective, long–term data retention, and effortlessly integrates behind the BlueArc Titan solution. Permabit produces a combined price/performance solution that provides long–term data protection (250x more reliable than RAID 6) and massive scalability, at an effective price of less than $1 per/GB.

• The announcement that BlueArc’s Titan 3000 network storage family has been tested for interoperability with Permabit’s massively scalable enterprise disk–based archive solutions is welcome news for enterprises looking to manage their archive and compliance data more cost–effectively. This partnership allows companies to efficiently allocate resources by allowing BlueArc technology to manage an organization’s high utilization and high performance data on Tier 0/1, while moving static and compliance data to a much more cost–effective, yet highly reliable value tier storage platform managed by Permabit.

• The benefits to the customer extend beyond the cost/performance arena. By moving inactive data to the Permabit Enterprise Archive, the Titan server is able to ensure that the transactional tier performs efficiently and backup cycles and associated costs are significantly reduced. The combined BlueArc–Permabit solution drives down the total cost of storage for the customer and delivers an optimized storage environment that enables the enterprise to efficiently balance performance and cost according to its needs.

• Too much data in the primary data store costs companies in operational efficiency and, more importantly, in IT budget impacts. Industry analysts point to the excessive static (persistent or stale) data that resides in primary storage. Estimates say that 40% to more than 80% of the data in primary data stores is static and not used on a daily or consistent basis. Moving that data to a more cost–effective value tier, such as a Permabit Enterprise Archive, will save IT critical budget dollars.

• BlueArc Titan provides industry–leading network storage throughput and transparency in the enterprise environment by utilizing FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology to provide the fastest and most scalable NAS solutions in the industry. Integrated into Titan is the capability to transparently migrate data between multiple tiers of storage while providing a single user view. The BlueArc Data Migrator enables organizations to automatically balance the tradeoffs between performance and storage cost–efficiency, while another feature, Dynamic Read Caching, can be used to substantially reduce data latency.

Permabit Quote:

“In today’s economy, the operative word for any enterprise organization is value. This partnership with BlueArc enables companies to offload upwards of 75 – 80% of their data to a more value–focused storage tier at a fraction of the cost they are currently paying for primary storage — in most cases less than $1 per GB. BlueArc technology represents the gold standard for high–end, critical data management and Permabit integrates seamlessly with their technology to provide the secure and reliable layer of data storage needed to handle the volume of data enterprises are forced to manage.” – Tom Cook, President and CEO, Permabit.

BlueArc Quote:

“Permabit is well established as the leader in long–term data retention systems, and BlueArc is pleased to partner with them to deliver both high performance and cost–effective tiers of storage in a unified solution. Together, we provide exceptional value to our joint enterprise customers who need an easy and effective way to manage their data.” – Bridget Warwick, Vice President of Marketing, BlueArc.

Analyst Quote:

“This is another example of companies partnering so they can focus on what they do best to reduce data center costs and increase IT efficiency. With this announcement, a customer can leverage BlueArc’s high performance unified storage solution for active data and their data management capabilities like Data Migrator, along with Permabit’s industry leading value tier for archive and data retention. The combined solutions can dramatically reduce storage expenditures, while at the same time increase performance and efficiency.”– George Crump, Founder, Storage Switzerland.

Supporting Resources:

• Permabit Media Center
• Permabit & Petabytes
• Executive photos & images
• Permabit

About Permabit
Permabit delivers the industry’s most advanced enterprise Value Tier storage solution. With patented data reduction and data protection technology, the Permabit Enterprise Archive™ provides massively scalable disk–based storage at the lowest effective cost available. Permabit enables decades of secure, reliable, online information access with a rapid return on investment. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, visit: www.permabit.com.

About BlueArc
BlueArc partners with customers to solve their storage and data management–related business challenges. BlueArc’s best–of–breed, high–performance, highly scalable and cost–effective storage solutions help to accelerate our customers’ success. Information about BlueArc solutions and services can be found at: www.bluearc.com.

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