Permabit Awarded Two Patents Covering Scalable Data Deduplication

New Patents Protect Permabit's Unique Scalable Data Reduction Technology Used in Large Enterprise Data Archiving

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Aug. 12, 2008 — Permabit Technology Corporation, the industry’s leading innovator of scalable, data-reduced storage for enterprise archiving, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company two new patents for its massively scalable data deduplication technologies. These new patents protect the company’s scalable data reduction (SDR) technology, which is integrated into its Enterprise Archive Data Center Series product.

U.S. Patents 7,412,462 and 7,398,283 broadly cover the use of hash-based deduplication for scalable file and object data storage with access control credentials. These patents also protect Permabit’s unique encrypted deduplication, snapshot, and many other features of the company’s SDR technology.

“Permabit developed core technology and filed these patents more than eight years ago, long before deduplication of data in storage systems was widely understood to be critical to the future of large-scale data storage,” said Jered Floyd, chief technology officer at Permabit. “We realized early on the importance of using advanced technology to shrink the storage footprint and thus reduce the cost of archive data.  We’ve implemented this deduplication technology in a product that is second to none in its ability to scale in capacity, and reliably protect and cost-effectively maintain data for large enterprises over the long term.”

Permabit boasts a total of 8 patents granted and 26 patents pending covering diverse areas of innovation including scalable, fault-tolerant storage technologies, efficient protection against and recovery from multiple failures in a storage system, and records retention.

Delivering the industry’s only scalable data-reduced storage, the Permabit Enterprise Archive system meets the need large enterprises have for migration-free, reliable, disk-based storage.  Using SDR technology, Permabit’s system provides a secure and cost-effective means of storing and retrieving massive amounts of enterprise data growing at an exponential rate.  SDR can drive effective cost per gigabyte down to that of tape, while eliminating the need to expand the existing primary storage environment.  According to Storage magazine’s “Storage Outlook ’08,” the average large enterprise plans to add 73 TB of primary storage.  At an industry average cost of $43 per GB, or $3.1 million total, storing that same amount of data in a Permabit Enterprise Archive system would result in an immediate cost savings of nearly $2.5 million. The economic impact of implementing a Permabit system during tight economic times could mean the difference between keeping IT projects, resources and planned investments in this year’s budget rather than postponing to the future.

About Permabit Technology Corporation

Permabit is the leading supplier of scalable data reduced storage systems 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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