COPAN Systems partners DSI on energy saving storage systems technology
ConvergenceAsia staff
28/11/2007

Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Data Storage Institute (DSI) and COPAN Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding forming a strategic partnership to explore technology innovations in energy saving, power efficient storage systems.

The partnership – a first for COPAN Systems in the region - will explore energy saving technologies in storage systems and will see a new COPAN Systems Training Centre set up in collaboration with DSI.

There are many technologies that need to be considered when applying a ‘green’ approach to any data centre, which include servers, storage, networks and data management tools, said Prof Chong Tow Chong, Executive Director of DSI.

“As Singapore becomes a data centre hub for Asia Pacific and Japan, we are expecting high electrical energy consumption on an annual basis. As such, a focus on energy saving storage system technology is necessary, while at the same time, through the use of technology, ensuring a high quality level of service,” he added.

Under the terms of the partnership, COPAN Systems, a leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class, enhanced MAID storage solutions, will train DSI researchers on enhanced Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID) technology and deploy its storage systems within DSI’s own data centre.

DSI will in turn provide its existing heterogeneous infrastructure at the Network Solution Technology (NST) laboratory. The partnership will combine the advantages of DSI’s vendor-neutral heterogeneous network storage infrastructure with COPAN System’s energy saving enhanced MAID technology.

The COPAN Systems Training Centre will serve the Asia Pacific region, which will accelerate the adoption of energy saving storage systems for archiving purposes.

DSI will assist in system setups and demonstrations with COPAN Systems engineers, providing services to the company’s partners for usage of systems and tools and for performance testing/analysis/benchmarking of deployed SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions.

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