Tape and Optical Replacement

Move to Disk–based Archive Storage and Reap Financial and Operational Benefits

Until recently, tape and optical were the preferred target for cost effective, long–term data storage.

They were the least expensive (tape) or the most stable (optical) for long–term data storage. The economics at the time supported these implementations and many IT departments deployed these technologies as the most effective available at the time.

Today these two industry standards are challenged by:

• Regulatory compliance and corporate governance requirements for fast and efficient access to stored data.

• Dramatically improved efficiency of magnetic disk technology with current costs rivaling that of tape and surpassing the costs of optical disk.

• The effectiveness of long–term data retention on disk based solutions that enables seamless roll forward technology upgrades and protects data more effectively.

• The effectiveness of long–term data retention on disk based solutions that enables seamless roll forward technology upgrades and protects data very effectively with WORM technology.

Permabit Solution:

Permabit Enterprise Archive™ Dedupe 2.0 storage solution provides the flexibility to replace tape and optical storage and reduce your management and media costs, enabling you to realize substantial cost reductions in your storage budgets. Permabit delivers the effective cost of tape and the data protection and security of optical within the same solution while minimizing your resource support to manually handle and manage removable media.

Permabit offers the industry’s most effective archiving solution by combining the following:

• Disk Based — By leveraging low cost SATA disk drives, information is always online.

• Cost Savings — Using Permabit’s built–in SDR, offers costs of less than $1 per gigabyte – lower than any other dis–based archive solution in the industry.

• Massive Scalability — Up to multiple petabytes of raw storage that seamlessly grows as your need for more storage expands.

• High Availability — To ensure you always have access to archived data.

• Intelligent Recovery™ — Leveraging patented RAIN–EC technology that is more effective than RAID.

• Replication — For further protection of data locally or in remote sites.

• WORM Technology — Integrated into the Permabit solution, provides a flexible, powerful way to lock down data as required for legal holds and numerous regulations.