May 1 -- COPAN Systems Inc., a provider of persistent data storage based on its enterprise-class enhanced MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) platform, has announced that the latest release of its Revolution 220A File Archiver is generally available. This 2.0 release delivers scalability and immutability features that protect long-term digital archived business information. COPAN Systems’ Millenia Archive software provides management and retention benefits for archived data, COPAN Systems said on Monday.
The focus of archiving, today, is on value creation, and receiving the maximum benefit and competitive advantage from digital assets, according to COPAN Systems of Longmont, Colorado. Data stored for long periods, whether for data management, regulatory compliance, litigation support or records management requirements, holds a significant amount of business value to a company, COPAN Systems said.
COPAN Systems is a provider of intelligent, enterprise-class, enhanced MAID storage solutions that unlock the value of long-term, persistent data. The company’s energy efficient storage solutions reduce power and cooling costs in the data center with enhanced MAID’s ability to spin the hard drives only as needed to conserve power and lengthen the product lifespan, the company said. COPAN Systems’ storage solutions include backup/restore, archive, and disaster recovery to customers spanning the healthcare, financial, government, media, and service provider industries, it added.
Digital archiving is different from traditional backup in key ways, according to COPAN Systems, a privately held company. The key distinction is that a backup copy is generally a temporary copy that is retained for disaster recovery purposes, whereas an archive copy is a retention policy-dependent, permanent copy that is kept for compliance, audit, litigation support, and/or records management purposes, the company said. This data is referenceable and continuously evolves over time, COPAN Systems added.
Unlike traditional tape-based backup or archiving techniques, COPAN’s purpose-built persistent data platform provides the benefits expected from a disk-based architecture, such as performance, accessibility and availability, COPAN Systems said. The company’s enhanced-MAID architecture, combined with its Millenia Archive software, provides a high level of data-protection utilizing patented Disk Aerobics software, the company said. The disks in the archive are checked for stability at least once every thirty days to ensure data integrity for long periods of time, it added. The platform also has a ten-year deployment life, with a four-year warranty, COPAN Systems added.
The building of a long-term, large-scale archive, that meets users’ requirements for quick, secure access to stored digital content, is no simple task, according to analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) of Milford, Massachusetts. Traditional tape falls way short from a time-to-access standpoint, while newer disk-based data protection systems currently lack the long-term storage features, such as information versus time-based access, data immutability, and advanced search, ESG added.
COPAN Systems' Millenia archive software is a file access software that lets customers retain all their digital assets with simple and immediate store and retrieve capabilities at the file level, COPAN Systems said. The system has massive scalability of up to 1 billion files to keep pace with growing archive needs, as well as all the features and benefits of COPAN Systems' enhanced MAID platform, the company said.
The features of the COPAN Systems’ Revolution 220A include file indexing and searches based on user-defined fields, policy-based data archiving, dynamic views of the archive data and retrieve functionality, and file protection against deletion or modification, satisfying the requirements of data immutability, and verification upon retrieval using a SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) 256 hash, COPAN Systems said. The Revolution 220A also features fast, easy retrieval of the correct version of critical documents, and user-designated retention periods and expiration dates for each file, the company said.
