Permabit Technology Corporation was a private supplier of

Data Reduction Data reduction is the transformation of numerical or alphabetical digital information derived empirically or experimental data, experimentally into a corrected, ordered, and simplified form. The purpose of data reduction can be two-fold: reduce the ...

solutions to the

Computer Data Storage Computer data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and Data storage, recording media that are used to retain digital data (computing), data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. The central pro ...

industry. On 31 July 2017 it was announced that

Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. Red Hat has become ass ...

had acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation.

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. 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. * 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. * Albireo SANblox – a ready-to-run data efficiency appliance that integrates data deduplication and data compression transparently into Fibre Channel SAN environments.

History

Permabit was founded as Permabit Inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. The company went through a management buyout in 2007 and a new business entity, Permabit Technology Corporation, was formed at that time. 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. Enterprise Archive utilized in-house developed technologies in the areas of

capacity optimization Capacity optimization is a general term for technologies used to improve storage use by shrinking stored data. Primary technologies used for capacity optimization are data deduplication and data compression. These are delivered as software or hard ...

WORM Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wor ...

, storage management and data protection. 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. Publicly acknowledged companies that offer Albireo-based solutions include Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM,

NEC is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It prov ...

, and

NetApp NetApp, Inc. is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012–2021. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data services ...

. In 2016, Permabit launched its data reduction software for data center organizations that utilize the

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

operating system in

Cloud Computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

environments. On July 31, 2017,

announced that it has acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation.

References

{{Reflist. Red Hat Software companies established in 2000 Software companies disestablished in 2017 Defunct software companies of the United States Software companies based in Massachusetts Computer storage companies