Permabit Joins NetApp Alliance Partner Program

Customers Gain Plug-and-Play Inline Data Efficiency through Permabit Collaboration with NetApp

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Dec 03, 2014, 08:35 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Permabit Technology Corporation, the innovative leader in data efficiency technology, today announced membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. As a member of NetApp's partner program, Permabit will collaborate with NetApp to deliver SANblox™ with NetApp E-Series storage systems. Customers will have the ability to leap forward in cost, capacity and performance by adding inline data efficiency capabilities to new or existing Fibre Channel SANs.

The SANblox appliance, which leverages Permabit's award-winning Albireo VDO and HIOPS™ Compression software, provides "plug and save" data reduction across a wide range of applications, including mixed virtual server, VDI, database (OLTP and data warehouse) and Big Data environments. Customers that leverage SANblox will have the resources to increase the capacity of their data storage systems by 6X, reduce cost up to 85 percent and increase performance up to 400 percent.

"We are pleased to collaborate with NetApp to bring SANblox to their customers," said Tom Cook, Permabit CEO. "More performance, higher effective capacity, and lower effective cost are a winning combination for E-Series storage buyers."

NetApp Alliance Partner Program
The NetApp Alliance Partner Program provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, certification, product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customers' benefit with access to best-of-breed partner solutions that have been tested to work with NetApp storage solutions. Additional information about the NetApp Alliance Partner Program is available at http://www.netapp.com/alliances.

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About Permabit
Permabit pioneers development of data efficiency technologies. Our innovative data deduplication, compression and thin provisioning products enable the world's leading storage OEMs to cut effective cost, accelerate performance, reduce time to market and gain competitive advantage. Just as server virtualization revolutionized the economics of compute, our data reduction technologies are transforming storage economics, today.

Permabit is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with operations in California, Texas, Florida, Korea and Japan. For more information, visit www.permabit.com.

About NetApp
Leading organizations worldwide count on NetApp for software, systems and services to manage and store their data. Customers value our teamwork, expertise and passion for helping them succeed now and into the future. www.netapp.com.