Archiving has emerged in recent years to become a business and information technology (IT) imperative. Where a simple backup to tape cartridge may have sufficed for making a copy of files in the past to satisfy regulatory retention, preservation and recovery requirements, today's organization faces far more complex needs.

While still viable as an offline option for long term storage, tape solutions no longer meet the demand for your company's need for a high performance and extremely reliable online data archive.

• Tape is not meeting enterprise requirements
  Archiving is not just about keeping data for long periods of time.  The explosion in data growth coupled with the need to keep more data online, has forced companies to re-evaluate their data archiving requirements, and it has become apparent that storing data on unreliable tape-based solutions does not meet the need of today’s enterprise requirements.  For data stored on tape media - it is a common customer problem to find irretrievable data on corrupted tape cartridges, and for tapes to become lost or damaged in transit to offsite vaulting. 
   
• Corporate SLA's and regulatory compliance
  With constantly changing requirements for offsite data protection and retention periods, customers have attempted to meet this challenge by attempting to store everything to tape.  This strategy quickly becomes unmanageable and cost prohibitive.  Customers that take this band-aid data protection approach typically only look at tape from a raw $-per-GB acquisition cost perspective.  When you build in the cost for maintenance, management and media refresh cycles you get a real perspective on what tape-based solutions are costing you.
  
  
• Tape management is time consuming and cost prohibitive
  Tape media management duties include cartridge tracking, labeling, storage, and movement.  These labor intensive operations are not only cost prohibitive, but put your business at risk as well.  Have you ever googled "lost tapes?"

• Incredibly scalable
  COPAN Systems provides the industry's highest capacity in a single cabinet at nearly 1 PB. COPAN Systems' Archive solution enables customers the ability to place digital assets on the storage tier that matches its value. Reclamation of expensive Tier 1 storage by properly archiving digital assets significantly slows the growth of the Tier 1 storage infrastructure, freeing transaction IT assets and budgets for other projects.
  
  
• Persistent data drives the need for active online archives
  Persistent data (data infrequently accessed) now represents over 80% of the data that is stored and managed in enterprise data centers (growing at over 100% CAGR according to The InfoPro). The current industry solution for managing persistent data has been to use tape or to repurpose traditional disk arrays originally designed for transactional data. These arrays are expensive, with operating characteristics that are far from optimal when storing and managing large volumes of fixed or persistent data that is accessed infrequently. This historical approach has led to compromises that impact cost, information availability, and ultimately the profitability and competitiveness of an enterprise. COPAN Systems online archive solution solves this expensive dilemma by providing a massive online array for all your archive requirements at a price point that extends your IT budget.
  
  
• Flexibility
  COPAN Systems archive solution gives customers the flexibility of using 3rd party products. Whether for archive, data protection, or disaster recovery, COPAN Systems Enterprise MAID Solution enables ease of management through proprietary and familiar 3rd party applications atop a single persistent data repository.

• Consolidated storage
• Simplified data management
• Replication for disaster recovery
• Slowed tier 1 data growth via data archiving
• Save up to 75% on power and cooling
• Save up to 75% in data center floor space