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Permabit Technology Corporation has announced the results of Wikibon’s Capacity Optimization Ratio Effectiveness (CORE) analysis against industry leading data optimization solutions. Wikibon named Permabit’s next generation Albireo solution, with GX technology, the clear winner in both performance and return on investment for IO –intensive workloads. Recent lab analysis by ESG confirmed that Albireo performed at 77 GB/sec, breaking an industry performance record while using 64 KB data blocks, hardware-based SHA-256 hashing in a 16 node grid configuration.

Wikibon’s CORE evaluation method analyzes seven variables: storage capacity, percent capacity reduction, cost of solution, cost of latency, value of capacity reduced, workload IOs/second and optimization overhead seconds/IO. The Wikibon analysis calculates a total CORE score which evaluates the benefits of storage optimization against the costs. A CORE score of 1 signifies that the benefits equal the costs. The Wikibon analysis assessed NetApp deduplication at a CORE score of 3.0, and then at 2.6 when combined with its new compression technology, while Permabit Albireo deduplication software achieved a record setting score of 254.

Albireo is the industry’s first and only OEM embedded data optimization solution delivering real-time primary data deduplication. It was created for hardware and software storage OEMs seeking to improve their competitive position and improve margins with next generation data optimization. Permabit enables its partners to deploy sub-file deduplication technology with no impact to storage performance while ensuring data integrity. Albireo does not alter data and operates completely out of the data read path; a combination which is unique in the storage industry. Announced partners currently include NAS and block storage companies, such as BlueArc and Xiotech Corporation.