Permabit a Gartner Cool Vendor

Here’s why Gartner selected Permabit as the only archiving hardware solution in the report:

“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. The company shifted in 2007 from delivering only software to offering complete storage solutions, including its Permabit Enterprise Archive Business Series that scales from 8 terabytes (TBs) to 40TBs. In mid–2008, Permabit released the Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series, a modular storage grid architecture that can deliver up to 3 petabytes (PBs) of raw storage, or just over 2PB of usable space by leveraging its patented RAIN–EC data loss protection technology. Although capacity of this magnitude is impressive, what is really cool about the Permabit technology is that it also delivers high availability with maintenance, upgrades and data migration that can be accomplished while the array is still actively supporting the archive application and users. Also included is robust block–level deduplication for optimizing storage capacity. Write once, read many (WORM) capabilities are available for enterprises requiring tamper–proof storage to meet regulatory requirements. Replication is offered for backup to a local or remote site. With all data reduction features included, the storage cost nets out to less that $1 per gigabyte (GB).”

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