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ESG Presents: Will Massive Disk Arrays Replace Tape?

ESG Presents: Will Massive Disk Arrays Replace Tape?

Originally Broadcast February 17, 2005
Now available on Demand
Length: 1 hour, including Q&A

How interested are users in replacing large tape library infrastructures with new disk-based alternatives? Under what circumstances will people move from tape to massive on-line disk? What will prevent users from moving ahead with large-scale on-line disk implementations? ESG will present its latest research in this emerging market.

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About Enterprise Strategy Group:
The Enterprise Strategy Group was founded in 1999 and is now the leading independent storage analyst firm and most frequently quoted source of storage industry intelligence. ESG's award-winning provides informed, straightforward analysis that helps IT & business professionals, and technology vendors make sense of the complex world of information storage. ESG covers every segment of the information storage industry including storage systems and software, storage networking, and storage services.

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COPAN Systems provides intelligent storage solutions, based on the MAID (massive array of idle disks) architecture, that create real business value through access to long-term data. The Company is led by storage industry veterans from Hitachi Data Systems, StorageTek, VERITAS, Dell and Compaq, and is privately-held, with investments by Austin Ventures, Globespan Capital, Pequot Ventures and Pinnacle Ventures. The COPAN Systems 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 and archive. COPAN Systems won the Investor's Choice Award at Datacenter Ventures 2004.

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About Intransa:
Founded in September 2000, Intransa is an innovator of enterprise-class, intelligent IP storage products and software. Based on technology that leverages the low cost and maturity of Ethernet technology, Intransa's IP SAN solutions dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of deploying scalable network storage. Intransa's products re-define network storage to deliver the first full-featured IP SAN at a price attractive to organizations. Intransa believes that network storage should be easy, dynamic and intuitive. By achieving these goals, Intransa is enabling business customers to focus their resources onto mission-critical projects to improve their business.