Return on Investment Assessment Predicts Customer Savings in Capital and Operational Expenses

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Nov. 12, 2008 — Permabit Technology Corporation, the industry’s leading innovator of scalable, data-reduced storage for enterprise archiving, today announced its Primary Storage Assessment Service, a new professional service offering for enterprise customers. The new service analyzes the information composition of primary storage and predicts the cost savings from moving non-transactional and static data from primary storage to Permabit’s Enterprise Archive. The service also generates reports that combine customer environment details with Permabit’s analysis and proposes a solution that can have an immediate impact on enterprise IT expenditures and operating expenses.

"With data growth rates in the 50 to 100 percent range for most enterprises today and IT budgets declining, it’s clear that legacy approaches to managing primary storage capacity growth need to be rethought," said Tom Cook, CEO, Permabit. "The Primary Storage Assessment Service allows us to clearly demonstrate to potential customers how Permabit’s solution dramatically decreases a company’s operating expenses by moving static data on primary storage onto an efficient active archive tier. Our service takes a scientific approach to prove that moving static data from primary storage to a Permabit Enterprise Archive will free 60 percent or more of the primary data store capacity to accommodate annual growth. In most cases, this eliminates the need for costly primary storage expansion and allows associated budget dollars to be reallocated."

The new Primary Storage Assessment Service includes a return on investment (ROI) calculation that computes the potential cost savings from archiving based on the amount of primary data that is currently being consumed, the customer’s storage growth expectations, budgets, and regulatory compliance issues. A new, free ROI calculator is also available at: www.permabit.com/products/roi-registration.asp. This web-based tool can quickly provide an ROI analysis based on the answers to four simple questions. For more information on Permabit’s professional services, visit www.permabit.com.

To assist enterprise customers with budget constraints for 2009, Permabit is offering a complimentary Primary Storage Assessment Service evaluation to a limited group of qualified companies. The evaluation will demonstrate how large enterprises will save millions of dollars in primary storage budget costs by implementing a disk-based archive. This offer is valid through December 31, 2008. For more information and to enter to qualify, visit http://www.permabit.com/support/professional-services-offer.asp.

About Permabit
Permabit, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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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