COPAN Systems Achieves Sun Solaris Ready Certification; Industry-Leading Revolution 220T and 220TX Products Optimized for the Solaris 10 Operating System.LONGMONT, Colo. -- COPAN Co·pán A ruined Mayan city of western Honduras that flourished from c. 300 b.c. to a.d. 900. The ruins include the Hieroglyphic Stairway with nearly 2,000 glyphs. Systems, the leader in intelligent, enterprise-class, enhanced MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks In computing, a massive array of idle disks (more commonly known as a MAID) is a system using hundreds to thousands of hard drives for near-line data storage. MAID is designed for Write Once, Read Occasionally (WORO) applications. ) storage solutions, today announced that the company's Revolution 220T and Revolution 220TX products have achieved Solaris(TM) Ready Certification for the Solaris 10 Operating System operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. (OS) on SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R), and x64 (x86, 64-bit) platforms. Achieving Solaris Ready status allows COPAN Systems to display the program's logo on its products, and indicates to customers that the Revolution 220T and Revolution 220TX have completed in-depth interoperability, compatibility and functionality testing on SPARC and x64 platforms running the Solaris 10 OS. Because COPAN Systems participates in the Sun Solaris Ready Program, its customers can have confidence that the company is recognized in delivering high standards of service and industry recognition. "We are pleased to have COPAN Systems gain Sun Solaris Ready certification," said Dan Powers, Director, Market Development Engineering, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. "With certification on Solaris 10, the most advanced storage OS on the market today, COPAN Systems' customers can be assured that Revolution 220T and Revolution 220TX have met the rigorous testing requirements of the Solaris Ready Program, and that COPAN Systems is dedicated to providing long-term support to its end-users." "Gaining certification from a premiere program like the Solaris Ready Certification Program for our Revolution 220T and Revolution 220TX provides key industry validation of COPAN Systems' enhanced MAID storage solutions," said Chris Santilli, Chief Architect for COPAN Systems. "Sun Solaris Ready Certification will enable us to proactively offer our solutions to Sun's channels, end users, and integrators, and further our commitment to 'surround the customer'." COPAN Systems' Revolution 200 series of products delivers massively scalable, reliable, and responsive disk-based storage solutions for backup/restore, archive, and disaster recovery applications at an affordable cost. COPAN Systems' Revolution 220T, Revolution 220TX, and Revolution 220A are particularly designed for the challenges of storing long-term data. Based on an enhanced MAID platform, COPAN Systems products offer customers an innovative solution, that is, a new tier within their storage infrastructures. Solaris Ready Program The Sun Solaris Ready Program allows customers to readily identify those third-party solutions that have proven interoperability with the Solaris Operating System on UltraSPARC(R) and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron(TM) processor-based Sun Fire servers. The Solaris Ready logo informs customers that these products have met the rigorous testing requirements of the Solaris Ready Program for system compatibility, interoperability, ease-of-installation, functionality, and network interoperability as defined and controlled by Sun. Participants in the Solaris Ready Program have also committed to providing long-term support for their products, leading to greater customer confidence. In addition, Solaris Ready logo licensees have access to Sun's sales channels. About COPAN Systems COPAN Systems is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class, enhanced MAID storage solutions that unlock the value of long-term data. The company is led by storage industry veterans from Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , Sun/StorageTek, Dell, HP/Compaq, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , and others, and is privately held with investments by Austin Ventures, Globespan Capital, Pequot Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, and Credit Suisse The Credit Suisse Group (SWX:CSGN, NYSE: CS) is a financial services company, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the second-largest Swiss bank, behind UBS AG. . COPAN Systems' storage solutions have been shipping since March 2004, with customers spanning the healthcare, financial, government, media, and service provider industries. Solution implementations include backup/restore, archive, and disaster recovery. More information is available at http://www.COPANsys.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Fire and Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International See SPARC. , Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. AMD Opteron is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices. |
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