Permabit Technology Corporation announced the results from a survey of IT decision makers that reveals key trends in the enterprise archiving market. More than half indicated that their perception of high cost was the number one reason for not implementing an archiving solution, and 40 percent said that reliability was the primary consideration when choosing an archiving solution.

    According to the survey results there is a decisive trend away from tape and optical as archiving media: only a quarter of those surveyed consider tape to still be an archiving destination, and only 13 percent use optical, while 45 percent of respondents described their archiving strategy as moving data from primary storage to secondary disk storage.

    The survey also revealed that 60 percent of respondents have more than 40 percent static data in their data centers, and for one third of respondents, up to 60 percent of their primary data store is static. Of those surveyed, 43 percent are paying $25-$40+ per gigabyte for primary storage. Three quarters of respondents answered that their primary storage budget for next year will be the same or smaller, suggesting that IT will be required to find a more effective way to manage primary storage.

    The Data Center Series provides a complete storage grid designed to address the massive archive requirements of the large enterprise. Designed to scale from 16 TB to 3 PB, the Data Center Series provides the only truly scalable archive on the market capable of addressing the requirements of large multi-application environments. Featuring patent-pending technologies, including RAIN-EC and Scalable Data Reduction (SDR), the product delivers disk-based information retention that is 250 times more reliable than RAID 6 technology while scaling up to 3 petabytes of disk capacity.

    "The continued pressure to manage primary storage budgets is forcing IT organizations to implement effective archiving solutions sooner rather than later," said Permabit CEO, Tom Cook. "This survey confirms our view that there is a significant need for a cost-effective, reliable disk-based archive solution. We're uniquely positioned to address this market with the Permabit Enterprise Archive solution and its ability to efficiently and reliably store massive amounts of data in a secure disk-based archive."

    RAIN-EC storage grid provides advanced, secure data protection from multiple simultaneous failures, ensuring that enterprise information archives are always accurate and recoverable. Scalable Data Reduction (SDR) technology combines traditional compression techniques with high performance sub-file data deduplication, resulting in substantial space savings for redundant data. Replication subsystem leverages SDR technology to transfer compressed and deduplicated information, increasing performance and reducing bandwidth requirements for off-site replication. File-level WORM capabilities address regulatory requirements for corporate governance, compliance, and litigation support.

Other significant results from the survey include:
    - A quarter of those surveyed are managing 100TB of data or more.
    - 42 percent consider the difficulty in conducting searches to be the chief complaint with their current archiving solution.
    - 80 percent consider the ability to search data an important consideration when choosing an archiving solution.
    - 45 percent do not have an archive strategy