COPAN Systems Named to '2007 Products of the Year' from TechTarget's Storage Media Group.Revolution 300T/TX Earns Silver Recognition in Backup Hardware Category 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 industry leader in cost-effective storage solutions for the protection and management of persistent data Data that exists from session to session. Persistent data are stored in a database on disk or tape. Contrast with transient data. See persistent name. , announced that its latest product offering, The Revolution 300T/TX, received a silver award earlier this week in the annual "2007 Products of the Year" competition from the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group. The "2007 Products of the Year" nominations were evaluated by a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants as well as the Storage Media Group editorial staff, which includes Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com. Judges selected winners in five product categories, including COPAN Systems' category "Backup Hardware." The criteria for selection was based on innovation, performance, ease of integration in existing environments, manageability, functionality and value. The Revolution 300T/TX offers the industry's densest, most cost-effective storage solution available while providing the scalability and flexibility that large corporations demand in managing massive volumes of data. In its announcement of the awards, SearchStorage.com editors wrote that the Revolution 300T/TX "may be the greenest of them all" in terms of space efficiency. One judge noted that COPAN Systems is "an interesting early front-runner in this type of array technology," while another described the product as "an impressive unit when you need the density and power efficiency." The Revolution 300 Series combines the advantages of its Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) Active archiving that uses disk drives instead of tape. Most of the drives in a MAID array are idle most of the time, but can be revved up and read faster than searching sequentially through magnetic tape. platform with the power of data de-duplication See deduplication. for the first time. COPAN Systems enables enterprises to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of managing the rapidly growing volumes of persistent data. COPAN Systems' Enterprise MAID platform only powers up drives when requested by an application, ensuring no more than 25 percent of the densely packed drives are turned on at any one time. This enables customers to reduce power and cooling costs by at least 75 percent, as well as reduce the solution footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. , and significantly increase the life of the disks. "This prestigious recognition from Storage Media Group further emboldens our belief that COPAN Systems is at the forefront of changing the economics of storage solutions today," said Mark Ward, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of COPAN Systems. "This is a testament to our dedication to building best-in-class enterprise products for our customers that maximize functionality, minimize cost and help gain unprecedented efficiencies in the data center." About COPAN Systems COPAN Systems is the leading provider of enterprise-class MAID storage solutions that deliver the industry's most cost-effective storage solutions for the protection and management of persistent data. Purpose built for data rich organizations, its Enhanced MAID architecture dramatically reduces power, cooling and floor space costs in the data center. Expanding to over 6 PB within a single chassis Pronounced "chah-see," it is a physical structure that holds everything or that everything is attached to. A computer's cabinet is often called the chassis. , COPAN Systems delivers unmatched density and scalability for large enterprise environments, including healthcare, financial, government, media and service provider industries. The company is privately held with investments by Austin Ventures, Globespan Capital, Pequot Ventures, 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. , Gold Hill Capital, Presidio STX STX - Start Of Text , Battery Ventures and NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Leasing Capital (USA). More information is available at http://www.COPANsystems.com. |
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