Permabit Awarded Two Patents For Innovations In Secure Data Deduplication
Permabit Technology Corporation, the industry's leading innovator of scalable, data-reduced storage for enterprise archiving, recently announced the company has been awarded two additional patents for its secure data deduplication technologies. The patents demonstrate Permabit's technology leadership in ensuring data integrity of deduplicated data and innovative new applications for deduplication.
- United States Patent No. 7,318,072, "History Preservation in a Computer Storage System," covers Permabit's technological innovation which solves a common and serious challenge regarding deduplicating storage systems: how to ensure that deduplicated data is never accidentally deleted while still part of an existing file.
- US Patent No. 7,356,701 covers Permabit's concept of using a content-addressed repository to deduplicate previously broadcast data.
"With today's nonstop data growth and the proliferation of regulatory demands for retaining data for long periods of time, data deduplication is perhaps the most important technological development of the past 10 years. However, the devil is in the details. If deduplicated data cannot be guaranteed to be kept intact, and files may be accidentally deleted or damaged, it's a risky proposition for businesses to deploy," says Jerome Wendt, President, DCIG. "These patents demonstrate that Permabit has created an industry leading solution for long-term data storage that integrates advanced deduplication methods which enterprises can feel safe implementing for their mission critical data."
ermabit delivers the industry's only scalable data reduced storage, meeting the enterprise need for migration-free, reliable, disk-based storage for archiving records and compliance data. Permabit Enterprise Archive provides a secure and cost-effective means of storing and retrieving the massively growing amounts of enterprise data. ROI due to Permabit's Scalable Data Reduction (SDR), which includes sub-file deduplication, can lead to immediate cost savings after deployment. Starting at the list price of $5 per GB of usable storage, SDR can drive effective costs down to $0.33 per GB or even lower, while eliminating the need to expand an existing primary storage environment. Storage magazine's "Storage Outlook ‘08" indicates that the average large enterprise plans to add 74 TB of primary storage at a cost of $43 per GB, or $3.1M total. Storing that same amount of data in a Permabit Enterprise Archive system, will result in an immediate cost savings of nearly $2.5M.
The company has 31 other 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. Additional pending patents are expected to be approved in the coming year, along with new product developments that will expand Permabit's industry leadership in enterprise archiving.
"Archive data is generally the last and final copy of that data and must be preserved with the utmost fidelity. Federal regulations for retained compliance data impose strict requirements on the immutability and authenticity of that information. Optimizing storage efficiency with deduplication requires technology that can absolutely guarantee that the data is stored accurately and reliably," said Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer at Permabit. "These patents solidify Permabit's technology leadership in data deduplication. We continue to deliver the industry's most efficient, reliable, and proven deduplicated storage for enterprise data, offering unparalleled levels of reliability to our customers."
About Permabit
Permabit, of Cambridge, Mass., 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.
SOURCE: Permabit Technology Corporation