Plasmon Products Overview

The Need for Trustworthy Data Archives

     Archival storage solutions are important for all organizations, big and small, everywhere in the world. The following changes in business practices and government oversight make an archival storage strategy essential.

• Regulations
  Government and industry agencies have increased enforcement of existing regulations controlling data retention and instituted new, more stringent controls.
• Litigation
  The financial and management burden of litigation continues to grow. Providing authenticity and well-documented audit trails are crucial elements for protecting any organization.
• Benefits
  Organizations are using long-term knowledge resources to make better decisions, lower costs, reduce time-to market and improve customer loyalty.

The Role of Optical Storage

     Optical storage is the only permanent archival storage technology. Disk and tape technologies rely on volatile magnetic recording techniques, which are inherently reversible or corruptible. With optical Phase Change technology, a laser "burns" data onto the recording surface, providing virtually unlimited data life. Optical storage media is impervious to magnetic fields and operates across a wide range of environmental conditions. It does not require expensive, highly redundant architectures to ensure data integrity and needs little or no maintenance. Media removability and backwardcompatibility dramatically reduce the need for frequent data migration, helping optical storage achieve an exceptionally low Total Cost of Ownership as little as one tenth the cost of competing technology solutions.

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     G-Series libraries feature UDO drives and media. The new standard in professional optical storage, blue laser based UDO provides dramatically greater capacity than previous generation optical solutions, resulting in a particularly low Total Cost of Ownership. It also delivers true Write Once data integrity, using Phase Change technology that permanently alters the media recording surface. 30GB UDO cartridges are available with both true Write Once and Rewritable media. A future roadmap delivers larger capacities up to 120GB.

     Plasmon G-Series 5.25 inch optical libraries are the market-leading solution for professional archival storage. They feature the industry's most reliable architecture and highest data availability, and support multiple optical media to minimize the cost and frequency of media migration. Support for both 30GB UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and 9.1GB MO (Magneto Optical) storage technologies provides a backward-compatible archive platform built for the future. G-Series libraries include state-of-the-art features like dual pickers, hot/warm swappable drives, and redundant power supplies; and are available in a broad range of configurations to fit virtually any customer requirement. Models range from 24 to 638 slots, with fully populated UDO capacities ranging from 720GB to almost 20TB.

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