Permabit
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer data storage |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Defunct | 2017  |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Key people | Tom Cook, CEO and President Jered Floyd, CTO and Founder Daniel Eiref, COO and SVP Cameron Pforr, SVP BizDev Michael Fortson, VP Engineering Michael Ivanov, VP Marketing Katherine Boardman, VP HR |
| Products | Albireo SDK Albireo VDO Albireo eVDO Albireo SANblox |
| Website | www.permabit.com |
Permabit Technology Corporation is a private supplier of Data Efficiency solutions to the Computer Data Storage industry. The company's Albireo product line delivers data deduplication, data compression, and thin provisioning in four forms, ranging from a ready-to-deploy appliance to an embedded SDK, enabling OEMs to choose the deployment method(s) that best suits their requirements.
Permabit claims Albireo is capable of multi-Petabyte scalability and is able to deliver 3x the performance and 40x the memory efficiency of competing technologies.[1]
Permabit Albireo
The Permabit Albireo family of products are designed to enable storage OEMs to rapidly get to market with competitive data efficiency features. The common pillar across all of these products is the Albireo index - a hash datastore engineered by Permabit computer scientists through fourteen years of capacity optimization research and development.[2] Four products in the Albireo family range from an embedded SDK (offering deep integration with existing storage solutions) to a ready-to-deploy appliance.
- Albireo SDK – a software development kit designed to add data deduplication to hardware devices or software applications that benefit from sharing duplicate chunks.[3]
- Albireo VDO – a drop-in data efficiency solution for Linux architectures. VDO provides fine-grained (4k chunk), inline deduplication, thin provisioning, compression and replication.[4]
- Albireo eVDO – an embedded version of VDO that incorporates OEM-specific abstractions for OS and block storage layer-specific functions.[5]
- Albireo SANblox - a ready-to-run data efficiency appliance that integrates data deduplication and data compression transparently into Fibre Channel SAN environments.[6]
History
Permabit was founded as Permabit Inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7] The company went through a management buyout in 2007 and was renamed Permabit Technology Corporation at that time.
Permabit’s first product, Permabit Enterprise Archive (originally known as Permeon) was a multi-PB scalable, content-addressable, RAIN-based storage product, first launched in 2004.[8] Enterprise Archive utilized in-house developed technologies in the areas of capacity optimization, WORM, storage management and data protection. To date, the company has been awarded 32 patents.[9]
In 2010, Permabit launched the Albireo family of products which focus on licensing Permabit data efficiency and management innovations to original equipment manufacturers, software vendors and online service providers.[10] Publicly acknowledged customers of Albireo include Hitachi Data Systems, LSI Corporation, Stonefly, and Samboo System Corporation.[11]
References
- ^ "Our Edge in Data Efficiency". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Deduplication Index Engine". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Albireo SDK". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Albireo VDO". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Albireo eVDO". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Albireo SANblox". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Original Permabit Website". Permabit Incorporated. Retrieved 3 March 2001.
- ^ "Permabit Releases Permeon Compliance Vault Software". eWEEK. Retrieved 17 March 2004.
- ^ "Intellectual Property". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Permabit Announces Albireo High Performance Data Optimization Software". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
- ^ "Permabit Licensed Customers". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 2 April 2012.