Permabit

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Permabit Technology Corporation
Type Private
Industry Information storage
Founded 2000
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Key people

Tom Cook, CEO and President
Jered Floyd, CTO and Founder
Michael Fortson, VP Engineering
Michael Ivanov, VP Marketing
Katherine Boardman, VP Human Resources

Norman Margolus, founder and former chief scientist
Products

Albireo
Albireo VDO
Albireo COMPRESS

Albireo REPLICA
Website www.permabit.com

Permabit Technology Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, is a technology company that designs, builds and sells embedded capacity optimization software to original equipment manufacturers, software vendors and online service providers.[1]

Permabit claims it's technologies massively improve performance and efficiency of data creation, transmission, and storage.[1]

History

Permabit was founded as Permabit Inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] The company went through a management buyout in 2007 and was renamed Permabit Technology Corporation at that time.

Permabit’s first product, Permabit Enterprise Archive (originally known as Permeon) was a multi-PB scalable, content-addressable, RAIN-based storage product, first launched in 2004.[3] Enterprise Archive utilized in-house developed technologies in the areas of capacity optimization, WORM, storage management and data protection. To date, the company has been awarded 28 patents.[1]

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.[4] Publicly acknowledged customers of Albireo include Hitachi Data Systems, LSI Corporation, Stonefly and Overland Storage.[5]

Products

  • Albireo SDK – a software development kit designed to add data deduplication to hardware devices or software applications that benefit from sharing duplicate chunks.
  • Albireo VDO – a virtual block device that provides data deduplication and thin provisioning services for Linux.
  • Albireo COMPRESS – add-on application that provides inline, block level data compression.
  • Albireo REPLICA – add-on application that provides offsite, file replication between VDO-enabled storage devices

Technologies

  • Albireo Index – software to rapidly map hash values of chunks to their storage locations, delivering high performance writes in deduplication environments.
  • Albireo Segmentation – a plug-in interface that performs variable length chunking based on content. Plug-ins are provided by the Albireo SDK to support CFB, PDF, TAR, VHD, and ZIP formats.
  • Albireo Hash Functions – Albireo SDK provides internal support for MurmurHash3 and SHA-256 based hashing. Externally generated hashes are also supported.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About Permabit Technology Corporation". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 2 April 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Original Permabit Website". Permabit Incorporated. Retrieved 3 March 2001. 
  3. ↑ "Permabit Releases Permeon Compliance Vault Software". eWEEK. Retrieved 17 March 2004. 
  4. ↑ "Permabit Announces Albireo High Performance Data Optimization Software". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 7 June 2010. 
  5. ↑ "Permabit Licensed Customers". Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 2 April 2012. 

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