PowerFile makes use of Blu-ray disks

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by Raritan Computer, Inc. Data Center Build outs Simplified Download this whitepaper, Data Center Transformations, to learn how to make data center build outs, consolidations and acquisitions (BOCA) less complex and time consuming. Discover tools and techniques as well as key questions and topics that should be discussed with the business management side of the house. or more information click here. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 09/04/07 PowerFile makes use of Blu-ray disks By Deni Connor PowerFile last week rolled out an archiving appliance that is one of the first to use Blu-ray disk technology to deliver high-volume and energy efficient storage capacity. The Active Archive Appliance (A3) Enterprise Edition provides as much as 70TB of storage per rack and 120TB per appliance, all at 500TB per kilowatt. The A3 is designed for storage of digital content – it contains Blu-ray disk technology from Panasonic. The Enterprise Edition appliance is six times larger than its predecessor and features 240 watts of power consumption in a 120TB appliance. Its predecessor used DVD technology. Since the A3 uses Blu-ray technology, it is possible for customers to easily retrieve information from the online archiving appliance. Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve Get real-world advice on how to best deal with the explosion of data across nearly every enterprise today. This informative executive guide offers IT professionals detailed information on new technologies such as ILM and FANs, specific pitfalls to avoid when deploying ILM, as well as solid case studies. Click here to learn more. Blu-ray offers 50GB of storage on a single DVD-sized disk; future releases of Blu-ray will allow 200GB per disk. The Blu-ray disk also is Write Once, Read Many (WORM) media that protects important information from accidental erasure, unauthorized modification, data corruption and viruses. To access information, the A3 appliance transfers discs robotically to two drives. A management interface is available called ArcOS. ArcOS resides on a 2U-high server containing four serial ATA drives for a total capacity of 2,000GB, which serves as cache for files that are access frequently. The appliance connects to the network with two Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports the Unix/Linux Network File System, Microsoft’s Common Internet File System and HTTP. Further it supports Windows, Linux and Unix operating environments. It competes with Plasmon’s UDO Archive Appliance, which uses Ultra Density Optical drives. The A3 Enterprise Edition Base System provides 10TB of archive capacity and 2TB of dynamic cache at $42,000 with 10TB Expansion Kits available at $28,000.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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