Today, the vast majority of information is created digitally and is overloading IT storage infrastructures' ability to cost effectively cope with the overwhelming quantity of digital information. Effective archiving preserves data while providing cost effective accessibility. Archive of digital data was at one time regulated to tape-based systems and while those systems have improved over time, the intrinsic limitations of off-line tape-based systems have placed such a burden against the access of information that they are reluctantly used - when the only other option was deletion of the data. What is desired is the accessibility of online disk systems with economics that allow all information to be kept until it is obvious that there is no longer a need for it. NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' 300A File Archiver provides the link between file accessibility and the required storage economics. The 300A File Archiver, powered by MILLENNIA ARCHIVE™, provides a complete solution for archival of persistent data files.

300A File Archiver Advantages

• Support Corporate Governance
  Millennia Archive Software™ enables the flexibility to archive, store, and manage data with standard, as well as user defined archiving options, while protecting the integrity and security of that data with immutability features and retention policies.
• Support Regulatory Compliance
  The File Archiver 3.0 Compliance Edition helps users deploy and end-to-end compliance solution for digital records as established by the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules for electronic storage media in the storage and preservation of digital records. The File Archive 3.0 Compliance Edition protects files from modification in a write-once-read-many (WORM) file system architecture while enforcing strict retention policies and maintaining the necessary audit trails to protect against accidental or malice file deletion attempts.
• Drive Revenue by Repurposing Digital Assets
  Maintaining digital assets in an online or near-line archive repository enables greater use of those assets for enhanced revenue generation.
• Disaster Recover Replication Protection
  Asynchronous replication enables corporations to protect digital assets in a geographically remote location in the event of a disaster. 300A File Archiver
  replication capability facilitates the user to use each location as a primary archive repository while also providing the ability to bi-directionally replicate data to each remotely dispersed location.
• Ultimate Data Integrity
  Direct writes into the File Archiver file system are prohibited. The Millennia Archive Software™, based on user defined policies, intelligently archives files off of transactional systems and deposits those digital assets into the File Archiver file system. This model of operation provides an absolute protection against file modification.
• Easy Deployment Model
  NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' 300A File Archiver delivers a complete archiving solution that can simply be rolled into a data center and start archiving files from shared network mount points. Complete with the data moving archiving software and the industries only purpose-built arching platform, NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' removes all the complexity of the Enterprise's archiving requirements.
• Reclaim Storage Infrastructure
  Intelligent archiving of digital assets frees Tier1 storage infrastructures to be used for more transaction intensive operations. Proper archiving files to a purpose-built archive repository slows the growth of the costly Tier1 storage infrastructure while providing the appropriate Quality of Service for aged or persistent digital assets.
• Breakthrough Scale and Economics
  Unparalleled capacities up to 8 PBs* within a single chassis at prices that rival physical tape.
• Power and Footprint Savings
  Patented Enterprise MAID saves up to 85% on power and cooling and offers up to 8 PBs* of capacity in a 10 ft2 footprint.

NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' Native MAID 300M provides the keys to solving the Persistent Data challenges — effectively managin the growth, costs and complexities for growing volumes of long-term fixed or static data. By providing easy integration with existing data protection, data archiving, storage tiering, and other data-aware applications. The 300M eases management, reduces costs, and integrates with your existing applications - providing all of the benefits of Enterprise MAID: unmatched density, scalability, and energy efficiency, coupled with the management applications you already have experience implementing.

Cost Effective and Easy to Manage Archive for Persistent Data Files

With NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN300M File Archiver, your company can leverage the full value of your persistent data. The Revolution 300M Native MAID presents a standard disk interface for persistent data-aware applications. Based on NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN’ Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) platform, the 300M offers the reliability and responsiveness of disk at the scale and affordability of tape, all with the ease of managing up to 8 PBs* of data in a compact storage footprint.NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' Native MAID 300M presents a standard disk interface for persistent data-aware applications.

• Superior Performance and Faster, More Reliable Backups and Restores
  More reliable backups and faster restores than automated tape libraries. Your data is better protected than with tape, with
  complete online access to all your critical data.
  
  
• Seamless VTL Integration into Existing Tape Environments
  Compatible with all leading software providers such as HP, IBM, Legato, Oracle, Symantec and more.(Click here for a list of supported applications)
  
  
• Breakthrough Scale and Economics
  NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' Enterprise MAID platform offers industry leading capacity that provides unparalleled capacities up to 8 PBs* within a single chassis at prices that rival physical tape. This "data center in a frame" can meet the data protection requirements of even large enterprises.
  
  
• Power and Footprint Savings
  Patented Enterprise MAID saves up to 85% on power and cooling and offers up to 8 PBs* of capacity in a 10 ft2 footprint.
  
  
• Deduplication without compromise
  Post processing deduplication ensures that backup windows are not impacted and provides the highest data reduction result.
  
  
• Game changing replication
  Replicating with SIR-M can mean up to a 95% reduction of bandwidth required to transfer data electronically to remote data centers or disaster recovery sites.
  
  
• Multiple Personality Flexibility
  The 300M can co-exist with either Single Instance Repository Data Deduplication and Virtual Tape Libraries, or Data Archives. This flexibility enables customers to deploy multiple solutions within a single cabinet, saving footprint while meeting all business objectives.
  

The 300M uses the same Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) platform and MAID enhancing technologies such as our Virtual Tape Library (VTL) - Revolution 300T/TX, and File Archiver - 300A products. However, the 300M does not require a separate processing layer to host the disk personality. Instead, its third tier is replaced by the disk-based application that can directly access the storage shelves.

IT organizations are faced with explosive data growth and increased compliance demands while trying to reign in escalating costs. Recovery time and point objectives (RTO & RPO) require that more data be accessible for longer periods of time, while not impacting restoration times. Traditional data protection solutions like physical tape or competing VTL solutions have not been able to keep pace with these growing demands. Now, with NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' 300T/TX Virtual Tape Library (VTL), IT organizations can cost effectively meet data protection needs while meeting or exceeding recovery objectives. NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SANhas taken its proven MAID VTL heritage and elevated it to the next level with the 300T/TX platform.

300 T/TX Virtual Tape Library Advantages

• Superior Performance and Faster, More Reliable Backups and Restores
  More reliable backups and faster restores than automated tape libraries. Your data is better protected than with tape, with complete online access to all your critical data.
• Seamless Integration into Existing Tape Environments
  Compatible with all leading software providers such as HP, IBM, Legato, Oracle, Symantec and more. Click here for a list of supported applications.
• Breakthrough Scale and Economics
  Unparalleled capacities up to 8 PBs1 within a single chassis at prices that rival physical tape.
• Power and Footprint Savings
  Patented Enterprise MAID saves up to 85% on power and cooling and offers up to 8 PBs1 of capacity in a 10 ft2 footprint.
• Deduplication without compromise
  Post processing data deduplication with Single Instance Repository for MAID (SIR-M) ensures that backup windows are not impacted as with inline approaches. Additionally, data is deduplicated across all 896 TBs (8 shelves) of raw capacity to ensure the highest data reduction result. Deduplication can be performed on your schedule, when you want, allowing you the ability to keep a copy or copies of un-duplicated data if desired.

• Game changing replication
  Replicating with data deduplication provided by SIR-M can mean up to a 95% reduction of bandwidth required to transfer data electronically to remote data centers or disaster recover sites.
• Multiple Personality Flexibility
  The 300T/TX can coexist with either Single Instance Repository, File Archiver or Native MAID. This flexibility enables customers to deploy multiple solutions within a single cabinet, saving footprint while meeting all business objectives.Breakthrough Scale and Economics.
• Enterprise-class availability
  Automatic HA failover and SIR-M standby enables critical operations to keep functioning, even in the event of a hardware failure. Backups need not be interrupted, and space saving deduplication can keep on processing and not miss a beat with these two optional features.
  
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Backup Optimization

• Superior Performance and Faster, More Reliable Backups and Restores
  Provides a robust backup/restore solution that gives you more reliable backups and faster restores than automated tape libraries. Your data is better protected than with tape, and you have complete online access to all your critical data. The 300 TX delivers up to an industry-leading throughput of 5.2 TB/hour, which is ideal for customers with massive amounts of data who require higher performance levels. This enables IT organizations to meet increasing Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives.
  
  
• Breakthrough environmental savings
  NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SANwas the first company to leverage the technical advantages of MAID Technology to create intelligent storage solutions at the enterprise level. We've taken the advantages of MAID – and Enterprised them – to create products that are truly unprecedented in the storage industry. With COPAN's application-driven, Enterprise MAID platform, only a maximum of 25% of the drives are powered on at any time. This platform was purpose built for the challenges of storing long-term data, and the infrequent access requirements of archive data. With NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' MAID architecture, power and cooling savings of over 80% can be realized, dramatically reducing environmental operating costs.
  
  
• Seamless Integration into Existing Tape Environments
  NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' VTL products integrate seamlessly with your current backup/restore software, so there's no need to change or disrupt your storage infrastructure. The 300T/TX enables disk to emulate leading tape libraries, delivering the speed, reliability, and availability benefits of disk-based backup while allowing users to continue using existing tape backup software and procedures.

300 T/TX VTL Features that Simplify Storage Management

NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' 300T/TX allows you to simplifythe daunting task of managing massive quantities of persistent data - with features that make data management a breeze.

• Data Deduplication
  SIR-M data deduplication takes place postprocessing across the raw capacity, ensuring that backup windows are not impacted and providing the highest data reduction result.
• Intelligent Replication
  Replicating with SIR-M deduplication can mean up to a 95% reduction of bandwidth required2 to transfer data electronically to remote data centers or disaster recovery sites.
• Flexible Existence with Tape
  The 300T/TX also seamlessly coexists with physical tape. Tape caching, export to tape or your backup application's tape copy function, enables data to be moved to physical tape if desired.
• Seamless Integration into Existing Environments
  NEC Tape Storage, NAS and SAN' VTL products integrate seamlessly with your current backup/restore software, so there's no need to change or disrupt your storage infrastructure. The 300T/TX enables disk to emulate leading tape libraries, delivering the speed, reliability, and availability benefits of disk-based backup while allowing users to continue using existing tape backup software and procedures.

The 100T VTL enables geographically dispersed remote offices to efficiently backup data locally, and then securely replicate it to the primary or disaster recovery data center.

With over 70% of corporate data for the typical Fortune 1000 company being generated in remote offices, IT organizations are constantly under pressure to ensure that data protection of this critical information is not compromised. The 100T VTL enables geographically dispersed remote offices to efficiently backup data locally,
and then securely replicate it to the primary or disaster recovery data center’s COPAN Systems’ 300T/TX. The 100T extends enterprise class backup and recovery to the remote office.

100T Remote Office Virtual Tape Library Advantages

• Meet and exceed RTO and RPO requirements
  The 100T provides fast and reliable local backups at the remote office, eliminating the many performance and reliability limitations of physical tape.
• Lower Cost
  Deduplication reduces storage requirements by a factor of 15 to one on average. Intelligent replication significantly reduces WAN costs associated with disaster recovery.
• Easier Deployment
  Investments made in existing backup applications and processes can be leveraged with the deployment of the 100T.
• Extended Retention
  Retention periods can be defined by business objectives instead of traditional equipment limitations.
• Secure Data Movement
  By cost effectively replicating data over a WAN, the risk of lost, mislabeled or stolen tape cartridges is eliminated.
• No Compromise Data Protection
  Extend enterprise-class data protection to remote offices. Ensures all corporate data is preserved.
  

Key Features

• Seamless integration
  Since the 100T supports the industries broadest range of tape drives and libraries, there is no need to re-engineer the backup process by converting to a file based backup or changing tape drive and library targets.
• Up to 95% Network Bandwidth Reduction
  The 100T with Intelligent Replication reduces the amount of WAN resources significantly by sending only changed data to the enterprise. You can now afford the security of electronic replication.
• Enterprise class deduplication
  The 100T uses the same deduplication technology found in the massive and ultra reliable 300T VTL. Effective capacities of 38 TB, 120 TB and 240 TB in a form factor as small as 2U are available to be installed in your remote office 19 inch rack1.
• Full integration with the Enterprise
  The 100T with single instance repository is fully integrated with the COPAN Systems’ 300T and enterprise class deduplication. By replicating to a 300T at the primary data center, up to 8PBs of effective storage are available for data protection and recovery.
• Tape Format Aware
  Optmizes the identification of duplicate data for higher deduplication ratios.
• High performance
  Disk based backup and optional 4 GB/s Fibre channel connectivity combine to greatly accelerate the backup process. Multi streaming and multi session backup capabilities adds parallelism to further enhance performance. And since the 100T uses post processing deduplication, the advantages of data reduction do not have to impact backup windows.
• Post processing data deduplication
  Deduplication occurs after backup jobs are complete. This ensures that critical backup windows are not extended.