Customer Testimonials

Penson Financial Services
Matt Pittman, VP MIS Infrastructure

“When we needed to comply with an order to produce historic documents and email, senior IT staff would disappear for days or even weeks to complete the request.  What took weeks now takes minutes with Permabit. The retrieval time has been unbelievable.  We achieved a 100% ROI in months.  And, Permabit has let us exceed people’s expectations of delivering data in a timely manner.”
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VIST Financial Services
Jack McLaine, VP/IT Manager
VIST Financial Corporation

“Permabit’s ability to handle VIST’s email archiving and compliance needs were the original reasons I selected their technology, but these aren’t the only challenges Permabit is now helping us to solve.  Now, 75% of our static data, including document images, are archived to the Permabit Enterprise Archive™, which has resulted in tremendous cost savings, and the ability to meet our green technology initiatives.  Our staff has grown to rely on having instant, easy access to critical business documents to speed customer requests and improve service delivered.”
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Global Healthcare
Senior Storage Analyst

“Archiving data on removable media was not at all efficient.  In one case, our legal department requested all information on a specific drug produced between 1999—2005, and they needed it ASAP.  As data was stored across numerous tapes, it was impossible to comply with the request, forcing us to settle the case. Permabit enables us to meet our critical legal discovery requirements, so we can produce all required historic data in a timely manner. This reduces corporate risk, potentially saving the company millions in settlement fees.”
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Analyst & Press Recognition:

Steve Duplessie, Founder & Sr. Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., June 2010

“The Albireo technology from Permabit will save an OEM 18-24 months getting to market, if they can do it at all. This stuff is so far ahead in its capabilities and performance I can't see why you would want to do it yourself, unless you already have it baked. Expect some big
announcements from some big players offering primary dedupe based on Albireo as soon as
this summer."

Arun Taneja, Founder & Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group, June 2010

“Permabit has redefined the Primary Storage Optimization (PSO) market by delivering a
high performance, lightweight deduplication solution that can handle the demands of
primary data, and is easily embedded into a wide range of OEM solutions in the market
today. This is the catalyst the industry has been waiting for to drive mainstream adoption
of deduplication for primary storage for all types of data--block and file. OEMs that will
leverage this technology will have a one to two year head start over their competition as
we begin seeing deployments of this technology before the end of 2010. Albireo has put
PSO on the fast track.”

David Vellante, Chief Research Advocate Wikibon.org, June 2010

“Capacity optimization is rapidly moving into the primary storage domain. Traditional data
deduplication approaches have suffered from high CPU overheads, slow performance and
limited scalability—making them unusable for primary storage. The appeal of Permabit’s
Albireo is that it is fast, requires low overhead and scales out, meaning organizations can
realize substantial business value for production systems. The other really important
attribute of Albireo is its integration approach which is appealing to storage array OEMs
because it makes the technology seamless and transparent to IT staff and applications.”

George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, June 2010

“Albireo, from Permabit, delivers a knock out blow to the issues that makes users resistant
to data optimization on primary storage. OEMs that implement Albireo will be well ahead
of their competitors providing their customers more efficient storage that yields better
cost, data integrity and scales to petabytes. Albireo delivers the deduplication
performance that is needed in primary storage and it may be the most significant change
for primary storage in 2010 and beyond.”

George Crump, President & Senior Analyst,
Storage Switzerland, June 2009

“Cloud Service Providers need to focus on offering the best possible service and solutions to their customers. The storage infrastructure is a key determinant in a provider’s success, but that does not mean that they need to develop a storage system themselves. By using solutions like Permabit’s Cloud Storage for Service Providers they can stay focused on their business, and not be distracted by the development and support of a storage infrastructure.”

DCIG, April 2009

“Today’s tough economic conditions demand that organizations choose the technologies that are best positioned to help them meet their budgetary and technical goals. Permabit Enterprise Archive is one such product that does both by providing a cost–effective, scalable and secure means to store archived data on disk for however long and however much archived information an organization needs to keep on hand.”

Cool Vendors in Archiving Gartner, March, 2009

“Permabit provides a massively scalable storage array that is targeted at the archive market. The Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series incorporates the full range of features required to efficiently store and manage data over the long life cycles that are becoming the norm in enterprises.”

SearchStorage, Silver Winner, Product of the Year Award, March 2009

“Typically retained for long periods, the growth of archived data can become as much of an issue as the one it’s trying to solve. Maintaining data–retrieval performance and keeping ongoing ownership costs in check are critical as the archive repository grows……Permabit Technology Corp.’s Enterprise Archive Data Center Series, introduced in early 2008, addresses those challenges [ with a combination of sub–file deduplication and compression, as well as a grid–based architecture called RAIN–EC. Dividing data among multiple hardware nodes in the grid yields several benefits: it boosts performance to up to 2 Gbps through parallel processing; keeps archive data available in the event of a node failure; allows for rolling migrations to new hardware over time; uses standard interfaces like CIFS, NFS and WebDAV that keep data accessible to multiple applications; and includes features such as data verification, replication, write once read many (WORM) and encryption for compliance.”

Rake Narang, Editor–in–Chief, Network Products Guide

“Innovative products such as Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series are bringing improvements in the scalability, safety, reliability and cost–effectiveness of long–term data archiving.”