Name	Applicable Solutions	Applicable Products	Size/Date

	White Paper: A Paradigm Shift in Storage Economics - Macarthur-Stroud COPAN has introduced a paradigm shift in storage economics leading to tier one storage being effectively 80 times more expensive than COPAN enhanced MAID solutions which, when complemented with data deduplication can deliver disk storage at 25% of the cost of tape.	Archive Backup/Recovery Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	268.13 KB
	White Paper: COPAN Systems Validates MAID as a Long-Term Storage Platform This paper by Data Mobility Group describes the advantages of MAID over traditional storage architectures and discusses the benefits of moving to a MAID storage system.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	372.86 KB
	White Paper: Data Archiving Using Enhanced MAID This paper discusses archive data and its specific attributes, as well as the requirements for storing, cataloging, managing, and retrieving archive data. We discuss how MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks), and particularly our enhanced implementation of MAID, are particularly well suited for the storage of long-term archive data.	Archive Backup/Recovery Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling	Revolution 300A	428.9 KB
	White Paper: DISK AEROBICS and MAID - A Match Made in Heaven This paper describes the differences between transactional and persistent data and how COPANs' Disk AEROBICS® software greatly enhances the capabilities of MAID.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	662.21 KB
	White Paper: Disk and Tape Pricing Guidelines - by Fred Moore For years, tape was considered to be less-expensive than disk storage. In the late 1990s, after several years of disk price erosion exceeding 30 percent annually and relatively few technological enhancements to tape technology, the perception about disk prices falling below tape prices became more widespread. This paper discusses those perceptions to find out what is real and what is hype.			180.53 KB
	White Paper: Disk at the Price of Tape - An in-depth Examination What if you could afford to have all of your on-site backups on disk and use tape only for offsite backups? While most people like that idea, the price of some VTL solutions can be discouraging. COPAN Systems, however, claims to offer “disk at the price of tape.” Their VTL product, the Revolution 200T, at a mere $3.50 per gigabyte, is certainly inexpensive when compared to other VTL solutions. But is it really as inexpensive as tape? COPAN Systems asked GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., the nation’s leading independent provider of storage professional services, for the real answer to this question.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage		823.61 KB
	White Paper: Disk Failure Rates and Implications Traditional tape and disk systems are not adequate to meet the data protection, reliability, performance, and cost needs of a long-term storage platform. An enhanced MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) storage system promises to meet these needs. In this paper, COPAN Systems presents the first empirical results on the reliability of a MAID storage platform, based on observed reliability in the field.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	180.63 KB
	White Paper: MAID and Deduplication: the Best of Both Worlds Outlines the Data Deduplication process and utilizing SIR-M with COPAN Systems' Enhanced MAID technology.COPAN Systems' deduplication implementation is unique because it leverages background processing capability – using the power-off cycles of enhanced MAID to deduplicate data after the backup is completed – to significantly improve performance.	Backup/Recovery Data Protection Disaster Recovery Tiered Storage	Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	545.06 KB
	White Paper: Revolution 200T - Evaluator Group Review Over the past few years, companies have experienced a marked increase in persistent data, which has very different characteristics and storage requirements than the transactional data that enterprises are accustomed to managing. Because data centers have traditionally been configured for transactional data, most do not have the capabilities to adequately handle persistent data within their current storage infrastructures. And this problem will only become more pronounced as persistent data volumes continue to grow.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage		269.23 KB
	White Paper: Solving the Energy Crisis Utilzing Enterprise MAID Energy consumption for storage in the data center is becoming a paramount concern for everyone in the IT industry – from CIOs to technology managers. The increasing volume of spinning disks is creating a large and growing energy crisis.The ominous developments in the cost and availability of basic utilities provide data center managers with no other choice than to move to energy-efficient, persistent data storage systems such as COPAN Systems' Enterprise MAID technology.	Power & Cooling	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	1.49 MB
	White Paper: Storage Economics: Getting the Biggest Bang for the IT Buck with COPAN MAID Today's IT reality is very different from years past. Organizations aren't just generating more data, they're retaining it for longer periods of time and facing stricter business and energy SLAs than ever before. This requires a new,more efficient storage paradigms.ESG believes implementing a tiered storage infrastructure can help mitigate some of these issues. In recent months, massive array of idle disk (MAID) technologies—such as COPAN Systems’ MAID architecture—have come into the spotlight due to the efficiencies they provide.	Archive Backup/Recovery Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	352.35 KB
	White Paper: Tape Replacement Realities Report - ESG The Information age has caused an exponential increase in digital data that must be stored. This challenging environment is indeed fertile ground for new solutions to take hold, and the availability of lower-cost, reliable disk drive technologies such as Serial ATA (SATA), enables more information to be kept online, and readily accessible, than was previously practical. While tape will continue to be a viable choice for the long-term archival for information, we believe a new breed of emergent disk-based systems which provide users with the means to retain massive amounts of data online, will challenge users’ perceptions about the true cost of tape.			190.08 KB
	White Paper: The Case for Massive Arrays of Idle Disks (MAID) White Paper by Dennis Colarelli, Dirk Grunwald and Michael Neufeld, Dept. of Computer Science,Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. Examines the issues critical to the performance, energy consumption and practicality of several classes of MAID systems. The potential of MAID to save energy costs with a relatively small performance penalty is demonstrated in a comparison with a conventional RAID 0 storage array.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage	Revolution 300A Revolution 300M Revolution 300T Revolution 300TX	21.78 KB
	White Paper: The Rise of MAID: A New Tier in Disk Storage - The Taneja Group There is a bona fide new tier within the disk storage infrastructure that you will be hearing a lot about over the next several years: MAID. Standing for “Massive Array of Idle Disks,” MAID technologies utilize a range of advanced techniques to achieve the reliability and performance of a disk environment with the economics and density comparable to a tape environment.	Archive Data Protection Disaster Recovery Power & Cooling Tiered Storage		85.72 KB
	White Paper: Your RAID May Benefit From MAID - Idle Disks Become Productive Quicker Than Remote Tape Buying a massive array of idle disks may seem to be a waste of capital, but the ability to keep a copy of deep archive data onsite, in a readily processable format, can save months of staff time and millions of dollars. MAID is a reliable, environmentally friendly storage media that works like a disk at a total cost of ownership saving over tape. Consider this an important new layer in the storage hierarchy.	Tiered Storage		65.62 KB