AustSTOR announces Plasmon’s UDO Archival Appliance
AustSTOR announces Plasmon’s UDO Archival Appliance
June 2, 2006: Plasmon’s new UDO Archive Appliance claims to use fully integrated tiered storage architecture to address long-term storage requirements.
The Asia Pacific market has reported a tremendous growth in information technology market in the last one decade. The establishment of new IT organisations have led to growth in enterprise IT sector too. Interestingly, security software is being seen as a very important enterprise solution for IT organisations.
This new solution is reportedly the first to merge Plasmon’s UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and RAID (Redundant Array of Independent - or Inexpensive - Drives) technologies in a fully integrated, tiered storage solution. The UDO Archive Appliance promises to combine the performance of RAID with the longevity and authenticity of UDO in a single product that meets corporate policies and industry regulations for data archives.
According to the company, the tiered architecture of the UDO Archive Appliance is based on a network attached interface that is simple to install and configure. The data can apparently be cached on RAID for access, committed to UDO for long-term retention and be taken off-line for archive expansion and low-cost disaster recovery. As a non-volatile optical technology with long life, UDO claims to require no proactive media maintenance and the ‘Write Once’ format states a record authenticity superior to magnetic disk and tape technology. Bruce Macdonald, BDM at AustSTOR says. “It’s (UDO Archive Appliance) a compelling architecture, which addresses the demands of a record archive in a way that magnetic disk and tape archives cannot.”
The UDO Archive Appliance has a standard file system interface, evidently, making it easy to integrate with third-party applications. Along with the medical imaging market, new applications for the UDO Archive Appliance are said to include document imaging and capture, content management and email archiving
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