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Permabit Technology Corporation was a private supplier of data reduction solutions to the computer data storage industry.

Red Hat had acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation in July 2017.[1]

Permabit Albireo

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]

References

  1. ^ a b Darrow, Barb. “Red Hat snaps up this company’s data cleansing assets to boost its storage story”. Fortune. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
  2. ^ “Deduplication Index Engine”. Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  3. ^ “Albireo SDK”. Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. ^ “Permabit offers deduplication to Linux masses – almost”. The Register. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ^ “Albireo SANblox”. Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  6. ^ “Original Permabit Website”. Permabit Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 30, 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2001.
  7. ^ “Permabit Releases Permeon Compliance Vault Software”. eWEEK. Retrieved 17 March 2004.
  8. ^ “Permabit Announces Albireo High Performance Data Optimization Software”. Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  9. ^ “Permabit OEM”. Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  10. ^ “Permabit Debuts Only Complete Data Reduction for the Linux Storage Stack”. Permabit Technology Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  11. ^ “Red Hat acquires Permabit to put the squeeze on RHEL”. Archived from the original on 2025-09-09. Retrieved 2026-02-26.

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