+ ESG White Paper - Getting the Biggest Bang for Your IT Buck with COPAN MAID
+ Macarthur Stroud White Paper - A Paradigm Shift in Storage Economics
+ Revolution 300A File Archiver - detailed product information and specifications
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+ Revolution 300T/TX Virtual Tape Library (VTL) - detailed product information and specifications
+ SIR-M + Enterprise MAID Data De-Duplication - an overview of SIR-M features and benefits
+ Enterprise MAID - an overview of the features and benefits of COPAN Systems' Enterprise MAID
Not all data is created equal. Some types of data such as databases, financial data, and online records are transactional in nature - meaning they change or are updated frequently. A majority of data however, is not transactional, but is data that is written once and read infrequently (persistent data). These two classes of data should require different storage approaches. Transacational data requires costly, high performance, disk-based storage. For persistent data, previously, the only option was tape which, while relatively inexpensive, was a pain to manage and unreliable for backups and restores. Enter a new paradigm shift in data storage management...
COPAN Systems' Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disk) platform is purpose-built to store all persistent data in enterprise data centers (estimated to be ~80%). You now can have the best of both worlds - the reliability, easy management, and quick data access of disk - all at the cost of tape. Plus you get all the advantages of Enterprise MAID - unprecendented scalability, reliabilty, efficiency and the only Enterprise-class Data Deduplication. COPAN Systems allows you to keep persistent data online at a fraction of the operating costs of transactional storage with more reliability and performance than offline media. Keeping data online enables it to be repurposed for increased business value. COPAN Systems' is truly delivering a paradigm shift in storage economics.
Meeting the economic demands of data growth and reduced energy costs are today’s challenges for CIOs. The high service levels that must be delivered have resulted in in more data being resident on disk arrays, whether this is for transactional applications, emails, office documents, photographs and videos, or for data protection and archival purposes. All this additional data is putting a strain on storage management, power and cooling costs and budgets, and infrastructure costs.
The challenge for IT managers is how to manage more with less...
COPAN Systems has introduced a paradigm shift in storage economics leading to tier one storage being 80 times more expensive than COPAN Systems' Enhanced MAID solution. This makes it much more attractive to keep all archive and reference data on disk, including all the backup images of systems, for data protection and disaster recovery, and archive data. Whether resident locally, on remote systems or offline, this data remains persistent – it must not change in function or structure.
The key concerns users have when managing their storage resources are:
To make archive data easily accessible, significant economic and operational gains must be offered. When archive data has to be retrieved, the value to the business can be considerable. The new paradigm in storage economics makes it more cost effective to keep data on disk. Relevant data can now be retrieved within a reasonable time; high service levels can be delivered mitigating risk to the business.
Organizations are developing green IT policies to address environmental issues, a growing concern across the globe. Corporate responsibility means everyone in the company has to make a contribution. The demands for power and cooling must also contribute to containing operational costs.
COPAN Systems' solutions can store up to 20 times more data per unit of energy compared with a conventional disk arrays.
One of the benefits of COPAN Systems' MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) architecture is that only the disks that are being used are spinning, and it is only these disks that are drawing energy. Experience shows that users are typically only spinning between 10% and 25% of their disks at any one time. This means the demands for powering the unit are up to eight times less than a conventional disk array.
Benefits No other storage vendor can make these claims.
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