Permabit


Permabit Technology Corporation was a private supplier of Data Reduction solutions to the Computer Data Storage industry.
On it was announced that Red Hat had acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation.

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. Three products in the Albireo family range from an embedded SDK to a ready-to-deploy appliance.
Permabit was founded as Permabit Inc. in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company went through a management buyout in 2007 and a new business entity, Permabit Technology Corporation, was formed at that time.
Permabit’s first product, Permabit Enterprise Archive was a multi-PB scalable, content-addressable, scale-out storage product, first launched in 2004. Enterprise Archive utilized in-house developed technologies in the areas of capacity optimization, WORM, storage management and data protection.
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. Publicly acknowledged companies that offer Albireo-based solutions include Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, and NetApp.
In 2016, Permabit launched its data reduction software for data center organizations that utilize the Linux operating system in Cloud Computing environments.
On July 31, 2017, Red Hat announced that it has acquired the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation.