Enterprise Archive Data Center Series Selected a Winner in Data Center Category

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – May 13, 2008 – Permabit Technology Corporation announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series a winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series ensures long-term integrity of information for large enterprises while dramatically shrinking operating expenses. Featuring patent-pending technologies including RAIN-EC and Scalable Data Reduction (SDR), the product delivers disk-based information retention that is 250 times more reliable than RAID 6 technology while scaling up to 3 petabytes of disk capacity. Taking into account the data reduction that Permabit’s SDR technology can achieve, multiple petabytes of data can be stored for as little as 33 cents per gigabyte. With this revolutionary new technology, Permabit is delivering the industry’s safest and most cost-effective disk-based archiving solution. To read more about this product innovation, please visit www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/.

“The goal of any product innovation must always be a positive change, improving and making solutions better than before,” says 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.”

“Network Products Guide’s recognition of our enterprise archive solution further validates how far our product technology is ahead of the competition,” said Tom Cook, CEO of Permabit. “Product innovation is a key to our continuing commitment to meet our customers’ needs and provide them with solutions that are not only ground-breaking, but more importantly meet the stringent business requirements of the large enterprise with extraordinary performance and value.”

About Network Products Guide Awards

Network Products Guide published from Silicon Valley is a leading provider of products, technologies and vendor related research and analysis. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including product innovations, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.

About Permabit Technology Corporation

Permabit is the leading supplier of scalable data reduced storage for enterprise archiving. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information visit www.permabit.com.

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