We have talked to them, having met the device at a UK storage show.   It 
does sound a good fit to our darta volumes - most other VTLs don't have 
enough for us to keep enough days of backup nearline.   It uses the 
FalconStor VTL s/w, though I can't say if it is the full product - but at 
least that is a VTL that has been around a while.

Myself I like the sound of it, my management have other fish to fry.

The power saving sounded good but when I read the spec, it did not read 
that much less than a standard array, which seemed wrong.  I would indeed 
expect it to use a lot less power, and we are really short of that.

You still come back to the argument about VTLs - which is mostly about how 
you use them as a route to tape.  I cannot see us not having tape.

William D L Brown




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Has anyone looked at the MAID (Massive Arrays of Idle Disk) solution from 
Copan?  They have been marketing it as a replacement for tape and as a 
pseudo-VTL.  This looks like not much more than just another disk (JBOD) 
to be used in a D2D pool.
 
Any thoughts or comments about their solution?
 
Brian
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