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OEM Data Optimization Solutions |
Deduplication (data optimization) is a hot topic these days because its promise to reduce storage consumption and its associated costs is compelling to today's high data growth businesses. Impact on IT budgets, CAPEX and OPEX as a result of applying dedupe in primary and/or secondary tiers of storage can be substantial! Lost in all the hype is the fact that there are as many flavors of dedupe as Ben & Jerry's has flavors of ice cream! 99...
Whew...things are certainly heating up. Last week, Dell agreed to acquire Ocarina Networks for an undisclosed amount. As I mentioned to Chris Mellor at the Register, this was a good indication of how primary storage is, "moving from 'bump in the wire' compression/deduplication solutions to integrated capacity optimization". And, yesterday, IBM announced the acquisition of Storwize. This is another great proof point for primary data optimization...
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 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...