COPAN Systems Announces General Availability of Revolution 200T -- the First and Only Disk-Based Alternative to Tape.LONGMONT, Colo. -- Innovative MAID Architecture Provides Foundation for Long-Term Data Storage for Backup/Recovery, Archive and Scientific Research Solutions 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, provider of the first and only disk alternative to tape, today announced the general availability of their first product, the Revolution 200T. Based on groundbreaking MAID architecture, COPAN Systems' Revolution 200T delivers the performance, availability and data protection of disk at the price and scale of tape. Companies in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , government, media and service provider industries are using COPAN Systems' product as the foundation for backup/recovery, archive and scientific research applications. "Fortune 500 companies who are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a disk-based alternative to tape can now justify storing all their data on disk and gain the power of disk access speeds and protection while reducing and sometimes eliminating cumbersome tape," said COPAN Systems President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Davenport Dave Davenport (born February 20, 1890 in Alexandria, Louisiana - October 16, 1954), is a former professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1914-1919. Davenport would play for the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Terriers, and the St. Louis Browns. . "The advanced MAID architecture of the Revolution 200T means that companies improve their business responsiveness, improve the success rate of their backup/recovery and have a more streamlined IT operation." "Awareness continues to build around the benefits of the MAID architecture and how it addresses the unique characteristics of long term storage. The result of COPAN's implementation is the first virtual tape library A hard disk array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks while continuing to use the existing tape backup software. See virtual tape system and storage virtualization. that can offer the benefits of disk at the price of tape," said W. Curtis Preston, VP of Service Development, GlassHouse Technologies. "Their breakthrough architecture is demonstrated by the real life implementation of a VTL See virtual tape library. that scales to 224TB in a single footprint, with speeds up to 720/MBs and a price that is 4 times less than other VTLs, essentially the same cost of tape libraries. This price point allows you to send all on-site backups to disk -- using tape only for off-site, disaster recovery purposes." Enterprise IT organizations have chosen the Revolution 200T to increase the reliability and efficiency of their backup/recovery, archive and scientific research applications. Application specific benefits include: Backup/Recovery Benefits: --Reduced backup and recovery windows --Faster access to backed-up data --Reduced backup and recovery failures --Reduced or elimination of staging costs (hardware and personnel) --Reduced tape requirement Archive Benefits: --Faster access to all data --A superior long term data repository See repository. --Elimination of data movement between disk staging Disk staging is using disks as an additional, temporary stage of backup process before finally storing backup to tape. Backups stay on disk typically for a day or a week, before being copied to tape in a background process and deleted afterwards. and tape --Reduced personnel and infrastructure costs associated with tape Scientific Research Benefits: --Reduced time to access the data, speeding data analysis --A superior long term data repository --Reduced costs associated with tape-based research architectures Pricing and Features Revolution 200T has been tested to support all operating platforms and all enterprise class backup/recovery applications. Today's announcement general availability includes support for BakBone NetVault(TM) and VERITAS NetBackup(TM) and will be followed shortly with the release to general availability for Commvault Galaxy(TM), Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. NetWorker(TM), NetAppliance(TM) and Tivoli TSM TSM Tivoli Storage Manager TSM Transportation System Management TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (stock symbol) TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TM) among others. The Revolution 200T list price is $3.50 per gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. , uncompressed. Optional features include compression and tape migration. About COPAN Systems: COPAN Systems is revolutionizing the rules of storage. With its radically new architecture, it is filling the hole in the hierarchy, delivering disk-based storage performance and reliability at the price and scale of tape. The company is privately-held, with venture capital investments by Austin Ventures and Globespan Capital. The first COPAN Systems product, the Revolution 200T, has been shipping since March 2004, with early customers spanning the financial, government, media and service provider industries. Solution implementations include backup/recovery, archive and scientific research. For more information, visit http://www.copansys.com. |
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