storage founded 2000 headquarters cambridge massachusetts key people tom cook ceo and president jered floyd cto and founder louis imershein vp product brett hawkes vp bizdev products albireo sdk albireo vdo albireo sanblox website www.permabit.com permabit technology corporation is a private supplier of data reduction solutions to the computer data storage industry . the company s albireo product line delivers data deduplication data compression and thin provisioning in three forms ranging from a ready to deploy appliance to an embedded sdk enabling storage manufacturers to choose the deployment method s that best suits their requirements . permabit also delivers some of its data reduction software solutions directly to data center organizations that utilize the linux operating system in cloud computing environments . permabit claims albireo is capable of multi petabyte scalability and is able to deliver 3x the performance and 40x the memory efficiency of competing technologies . 1 to date the company has been awarded 37 patents . 2 contents 1 permabit albireo 2 history 3 references 4 external links permabit albireo edit the permabit albireo family of products are designed to enable storage oems to rapidly get to market with competitive data reduction features . the common component among these products is the albireo index a hash datastore engineered by permabit computer scientists through fifteen years of capacity optimization research and development . 3 three products in the albireo family range from an embedded sdk offering deep integration with existing storage solutions to a ready to deploy appliance . the company s hybrid cloud products are specifically designed to increase storage density in cloud data centers and lower facilities power and infrastructure costs . these products are sold through professional services organizations that assist organizations in deployment and management of data center infrastructure . albireo sdk a software development kit designed to add data deduplication to hardware devices or software applications that benefit from sharing duplicate chunks . 4 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 . 5 albireo sanblox a ready to run data efficiency appliance that integrates data deduplication and data compression transparently into fibre channel san environments . 6 history edit permabit was founded as permabit inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from massachusetts institute of technology . 7 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 rain based storage product first launched in 2004 . 8 enterprise archive utilized in house developed technologies in the areas of capacity optimization worm 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 . 9 publicly acknowledged companies that offer albireo based solutions include emc hitachi data systems ibm nec and netapp . 10 in 2016 permabit launched its data reduction software solution for data center organizations that utilize the linux operating system in cloud computing environments . 11 references edit our edge in data efficiency . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 may 2014 . intellectual property . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 aug 2015 . deduplication index engine . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 may 2014 . albireo sdk . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 july 2016 . albireo vdo . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 july 2016 . albireo sanblox . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 july 2016 . original permabit website . permabit incorporated . archived from the original on march 30 2001 . retrieved 3 march 2001 . permabit releases permeon compliance vault software . eweek . retrieved 17 march 2004 . permabit announces albireo high performance data optimization software . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 7 june 2010 . permabit oem . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 1 february 2015 . permabit debuts only complete data reduction for the linux storage stack . permabit technology corporation . retrieved 28 july 2016 . . external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title permabit & oldid 735331768 categories companies established in 2000companies based in massachusettscomputer companies of the united statessoftware companies based in massachusettscomputer storage companies navigation menu personal tools not logged 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