Company:Permabit
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer data storage |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Permabit Technology Corporation was a private supplier of data reduction solutions to the computer data storage industry.
Red Hat had acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation in July 2017.[1]
Permabit Albireo
The Permabit Albireo family of products are designed with data reduction features. The common component among these products is the Albireo index - a hash datastore.[2] Three products in the Albireo family range from an embedded SDK (offering integration with existing storage) to a ready-to-deploy appliance.
- Albireo SDK – a software development kit designed to add data deduplication to hardware devices or software applications that benefit from sharing duplicate chunks.[3]
- Albireo VDO – a drop-in data efficiency solution for Linux architectures. VDO provides fine-grained (4 KB chunk), inline deduplication, thin provisioning, compression and replication.[4]
- Albireo SANblox – a ready-to-run data efficiency appliance that integrates data deduplication and data compression transparently into Fibre Channel SAN environments.[5]
History
Permabit was founded as Permabit Inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6] The company went through a management buyout in 2007 and a new business entity, Permabit Technology Corporation, was formed at that time.[citation needed]
Permabit’s first product, Permabit Enterprise Archive (originally known as Permeon) was a multi-PB scalable, content-addressable, scale-out storage product, first launched in 2004.[7] Enterprise Archive utilized in-house developed technologies in the areas of capacity optimization, WORM, storage management and data protection.[citation needed]
In 2010, Permabit launched the Albireo family of products which focus on licensing Permabit data efficiency and management innovations to original equipment manufacturers, software vendors and online service providers.[8] Publicly acknowledged companies that offer Albireo-based solutions include Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, and NetApp.[9]
In 2016, Permabit launched its data reduction software for data center organizations that utilize the Linux operating system in Cloud Computing environments.[10]
On July 31, 2017, Red Hat announced that it has acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation.[1][11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Darrow, Barb. "Red Hat snaps up this company's data cleansing assets to boost its storage story" (in en). https://fortune.com/2017/07/31/red-hat-buys-permabit-assets/.
- ↑ "Deduplication Index Engine". Permabit Technology Corporation. http://permabit.com/products/technologies/deduplication-index-engine/. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ↑ "Albireo SDK". Permabit Technology Corporation. http://permabit.com/products-overview/albireo-software-development-kit-sdk/. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ "Permabit offers deduplication to Linux masses – almost". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/29/permabit_offering_dedupe_to_linux_masses_almost/. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ↑ "Albireo SANblox". Permabit Technology Corporation. http://permabit.com/products-overview/albireo-sanblox/. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ "Original Permabit Website". Permabit Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 30, 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20010330070526/http://www.permabit.com/. Retrieved 3 March 2001.
- ↑ "Permabit Releases Permeon Compliance Vault Software". eWEEK. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Permabit-Releases-Permeon-Compliance-Vault-Software/. Retrieved 17 March 2004.
- ↑ "Permabit Announces Albireo High Performance Data Optimization Software". Permabit Technology Corporation. http://permabit.com/press/permabit-announces-albireo-high-performance-data-optimization-software-the-industrys-only-embedded-solution-delivering-primary-data-deduplication/. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
- ↑ "Permabit OEM". Permabit Technology Corporation. http://permabit.com/partners/oem-partner/. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "Permabit Debuts Only Complete Data Reduction for the Linux Storage Stack". Permabit Technology Corporation. http://permabit.com/press/permabit-debuts-only-complete-data-reduction-for-the-linux-storage-stack/. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ↑ "Red Hat acquires Permabit to put the squeeze on RHEL" (in en). https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/01/red_hat_acquires_permabit/.
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