Permabit Technology and DataGlobal Partner to Optimize Enterprise Storage Utilization and Reduce Costs

CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - July 9, 2009) - Permabit Technology Corporation, the leading innovator of value tier storage solutions for the enterprise, today announced that they have entered into a partnership with DataGlobal, makers of end-to-end enterprise data analysis and storage management software deployed across Global 2000 businesses.

Industry analysts report that between 40% and 80% of the data on high cost primary storage is static and infrequently accessed. Moving this data to a cost-effective value tier saves critical budget dollars and improves overall enterprise storage efficiency. The Permabit partnership with DataGlobal provides customers with a seamless solution to analyze and migrate data to a value tier storage solution. DataGlobal delivers the most advanced enterprise-wide data analysis and archiving solution available today. Permabit produces a combined price/performance storage solution that provides long-term data protection and massive scalability, at an effective price of less than $1 per gigabyte leveraging patented data deduplication technology. By moving inactive/persistent data to the Permabit value tier, DataGlobal Enterprise Resource Suite (ERS) optimizes enterprise storage IT infrastructures greatly reducing primary and secondary storage consumption.

--  The combined Permabit-DataGlobal offering lowers the total cost of
    data storage for customers and delivers an optimized storage environment
    that enables the enterprise to efficiently manage storage resources.
    Permabit's value tier storage solution provides long term data savings and
    protection. The Permabit Enterprise Archive solution easily integrates into
    an ERS enterprise environment utilizing ERS' data analysis, migration
    policy and archiving modules to identify and move data seamlessly and
    without user intervention to Permabit value tier storage.
    
--  Permabit creates a storage environment that meets critical business
    objectives for secure, long-term data retention at an affordable cost.
    Permabit's Enterprise Archive meets critical data archiving requirements
    such as scalability, security, availability and flexibility. Patented RAIN-
    EC technology enables Permabit to provide scalable data protection that
    scales to the multiple-petabyte level. Its reliable data protection is 250
    times more effective than RAID 6 and is specifically designed for next-
    generation large capacity disk drives by using advanced Erasure Coding
    algorithms. Applying patented storage technology, Permabit helps companies
    achieve the greater levels of efficiency that are demanded in today's
    economic environment.
    
--  The DataGlobal Enterprise Resource Suite ERS is a complete, cost-
    effective software suite for analyzing, monitoring, quantifying,
    qualifying, controlling and archiving data involved in IT storage
    environments -- regardless of systems' complexity, size, heterogeneity or
    locations. The data analysis module is extremely effective at identifying
    static/persistent data that should be moved to less costly storage tier,
    such as the Permabit Enterprise Archive. Combining the DataGlobal archiving
    module for data archiving, data retention, rendering, single instance of
    data, and automatic retrieval capabilities with Permabit Enterprise Archive
    delivers a complete solution for enterprises that need multi-petabyte
    scalability, data availability and protection with an industry leading
    price point.
    

Permabit Quote:

"Companies are continuing to struggle in their efforts to reign in their data storage budgets. By partnering with DataGlobal, we are able to offer customers a combined solution that delivers seamless enterprise wide IT storage optimization -- a management tool that can quickly and easily identify stale or stagnant data coupled with a highly cost effective tier of storage. DataGlobal has continued to prove their value in Global 2000 enterprise environments while Permabit is leading the way in value tier storage solutions driving the cost below $1 per/GB. Together we make a very attractive alternative to enterprise customers looking to reduce costs and avoid continued spending on primary and secondary storage products." - Tom Cook, President and CEO, Permabit.

DataGlobal Quote:

"DataGlobal looks at its partnership with Permabit as a natural extension of DataGlobal's mission of providing end-to-end data management tools. With the Permabit partnership we can offer our collective customers an easy and powerful solution to provide transparent data migration to archive storage. Permabit fills an essential gap in providing our customers with effective storage tiered solutions." - Wolfgang Munz, President and CEO, DataGlobal.

Analyst Quote:

"The case for establishing a value tier of storage can no longer be ignored by today's enterprises. The combined cost savings of reduced primary storage expenditures, improved retention and significantly enhanced IT staff efficiency makes a value tier of storage a must have. The remaining road block was how to move data to that tier. The partnership between Permabit and DataGlobal addresses that problem and provides IT Managers with a seamless approach to getting there." - George Crump, Lead Analyst, Storage Switzerland.

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About Permabit

Permabit delivers the industry's most advanced enterprise Value Tier storage solution. With patented data reduction and protection technology, the Permabit Enterprise Archive™ provides massively scalable disk-based storage at the lowest effective cost available. Permabit enables decades of secure, reliable, online information access with a rapid return on investment. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, visit: www.permabit.com.

About DataGlobal

Since its founding in 1992, DataGlobal has kept pace with the explosive technological developments in the complex and heterogeneous storage environments of data centers in large companies. Customer facing from the beginning, DataGlobal provided products, customer specific development and turn-key services to meet the needs of their customers. The company's solutions and services have always been forward-looking and distinguished by a high degree of added value for its customers. For more information, visit: www.dataglobal.com

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