Permabit Enterprise Archive Scalable Data-Reduced Storage for Enterprise

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Permabit Enterprise ArchiveScalable
Data-Reduced Storage for Enterprise
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About Permabit

• Headquarters Cambridge, MA
• Founded in 2000, shipping since 2004
• Privately held
• Leading provider of scalable, data-reduced
  storage for enterprise
• Flagship Permabit Enterprise Archive
• Installations across multiple industries
• Over 180 end-customers world-wide

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What do we deliver?

• We deliver scalable, data-reduced storage in a
  grid architecture for enterprise.
• We are the target of choice for enterprises who
  need online, disk based storage for
• File archives
• WORM volumes
• Snapshots
• Static data
• Email archives
• Our solution is the most cost effective and
  scalable archive available. Period.

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Why customers invest in Permabit Archive

• Data explosion
• Static information is growing at 75-100 per
  year1
• Pressure to control costs
• Meeting increased business needs
• Primary overload and long backup windows
• Static information comprises 60-80 of typical
  Enterprise primary storage2
• Primary acquisition and management cost are
  prohibitive
• Backup of static data is slow and requires
  additional investment
• Pains of Tape/Optical ownership
• Painful technology refreshes
• Lost information
• Offline, inaccessible retrieval does not meet
  business objectives

1 ESG, IDC 2 ESG, Gartner, IDC
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More than180 Companies Rely on Permabit
Enterprise Archive

• Fortune 100 Healthcare VMWare images, expense
  records, email and clinical trial archive
• Leading Stock Exchange Database snapshot
  archive
• WW Leading Auto Parts Drawings, procurement,
  manufacturing and supply chain data for
  litigation and warranty archive
• APAC Leading Investment Bank email and
  regulatory compliance archive
• Leading Regional Care Provider radiology
  images, patient records and email archive

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An Enterprise Archive storage solution must be

• Massively Scalable
• A 30TB archive doubling yearly will be 1PB in
  just 5 years!
• Extremely Cost Effective
• Growth rates and long-term magnify effects of
  costs.
• Always Available
• Operations demand no-down time and no single
  point of failure.
• Reliably Protected
• Data loss is not an option

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Permabit is Enterprise Archive

• Massively Scalable - capacity to 3 PB
• Grid architecture combined with advanced data
  protection and independent scaling of capacity
  and performance fits even the most demanding
  enterprise requirements
• Cost Effective - 2.33 - 5.33 / GB
• Enabled by Scalable Data Reduction (SDR),
  implements in a day, no touch maintenance and .3
  FTE/100TB management
• Always Available - online, full HA, rolling
  upgrades
• Assured with no-touch migration, rapid retrieve,
  separate access and storage, virtual storage
  management
• Reliably Protected -will survive 2 simultaneous
  failures
• 250X safer than Raid 6 with faster rebuilds,
  perpetual data verification, advanced WAN
  optimized replication, WORM, and encryption

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Illustrative Economics

• In 2008 the average large enterprise plans to
  add 74 TB of primary storage at a cost of 43/GB
  or 3.1M (Storage Magazine Storage Outlook 08)

• Example Instead of buying additional primary
  storage, the Company invests in Permabit
  Enterprise Archive.
• Cost of 74 TB of primary.3.100,000
• Cost of 74 TB Permabit, replicated...
  700,000
• _________
• Cost Savings in Year One 2,400,000

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Permabit Enterprise Archive - Product

• Access Nodes
• Expose NFS CIFS
• Fingerprinting
• Paired for HA
• Scalable for Performance

Access Node

• ...

• ...

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Access Node

• Storage Nodes
• Data Routing Indexing
• Self Healing/Managing
• Virtual Storage Management
• Massively Scalable
• 8 to 48 nodes/grid
• up to 32 grids
• 96 TB - 3 PB

Storage Node
Storage Node
Storage Node

• ...

• ...

• ...

Storage Node
Grid Ships in Configured Rack
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Technology HighlightScalable Data Reduction
File 1
File 2
Archive
1. Segmentation
First, we divide files into chunks
2. Compression
Then, we compress the chunks resulting in space
savings of 2-4X
3. Deduplication
Finally, we deduplicate the sub-file chunks.

• SDR combines sub-file deduplication with
  compression
• Completely in-line process
• Scales to PBs of storage
• Works across volumes, snapshots, and replica
  storage grids

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Technology HighlightSpotlight on Replication

• Replication is asynchronous and point-in-time
  consistent
• Replicates as frequently as every 5 minutes
• Replicas are read-only until they are promoted
• Leverages SDR technology so that data already at
  the remote site is never sent over the wire, even
  if it came from a different source!

Many-to-one
Bidirectional
Unidirectional
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Technology HighlightGrid Management

• Virtualization
• Storage grid is presented as a single pool of
  storage
• Does not require provisioning or partitioning
• Healing
• Pro-active health monitoring takes faulty
  components offline in a controlled fashion
  before they fail!
• Data rebuilds automatically, no manual
  intervention required.
• Grid technology ensures healing is fast faster
  than comparable RAID systems
• No Migration
• Data is rebalanced on add or delete of nodes
• Makes forklift migration a thing of the past

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Technology HighlightStandard Interfaces

• Permabit Enterprise Archive requires no APIs. We
  provide interfaces for NFS, CIFS and WebDav.
  This means thousands of applications are
  supported along with virtually all data movers
• No API, no extra charges, no learning curve
• Mounts like any NAS device

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Permabit Enterprise Archive

• Enterprise Archive requires
• Permabit delivers the only complete solution for
  Enterprise Archive

• Massive Scalability
• Absolute Availability

• Low Cost
• Reliable Protection

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