Red Hat had acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation in July 2017.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
Albireo SANblox – a ready-to-run data efficiency appliance that integrates data deduplication and data compression transparently into Fibre Channel SAN environments.[5]
History
Permabit was founded as Permabit Inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6] The company went through a management buyout in 2007 and a new business entity, Permabit Technology Corporation, was formed at that time.[citation needed]
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.[7] Enterprise Archive utilized in-house developed technologies in the areas of capacity optimization, WORM, storage management and data protection.[citation needed]
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.[8] Publicly acknowledged companies that offer Albireo-based solutions include Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, and NetApp.[9]
In 2016, Permabit launched its data reduction software for data center organizations that utilize the Linux operating system in Cloud Computing environments.[10]
On July 31, 2017, Red Hat announced that it has acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation.[1][11]
