Copan Received Five New Patents

COPAN Systems has received five new patents that demonstrate the company’s continued commitment to technology innovation. In an industry where storage density, energy efficiency, scalable performance and system reliability are paramount, these new patents drive COPAN Systems technology beyond traditional metrics and ahead of the competition.

"A strong patent portfolio allows us to develop new solutions for the challenges that continue to hold companies back due to explosive data growth," said Chris Santilli, CTO of COPAN Systems. "At COPAN, we will continue to invest in innovation to bring solutions to our customer’s persistent data storage challenges."

The new patents tackle the requirements for massive scale in capacity that has become the driving factor in datacenter economics, including background processing, data routing, proactive drive replacement and drive maintenance and accessing of auxiliary data. COPAN Systems aims to introduce a new approach to scaling these systems without increased cost to the customer or impact to the overall performance.

More specifically, COPAN Systems’ newly patented technology aims to:

1. Extend disk connectivity to improve on drive density, providing reduced carbon footprint with its power and cooling capabilities
2. Offer a new approach to processing capabilities (e.g. deduplication) – scaling without decreasing ingest rates or increasing cost and complexity
3. Proactively monitor disk health and maintenance demonstrating the highest level of system reliability
4. Intelligently exercise software extending the service intervals for drive maintenance
5. Intelligently assign access profiles for data objects

With the addition of these new patents, COPAN Systems currently has over 13 core patents contributing to the company’s industry-leading Enterprise MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology, which addresses the long-term data storage requirements of write-once/read-occasionally data. The company has incorporated the patents to deliver a broad set of persistent data solutions to its Revolution product family, creating the next generation solutions for long-term data retention.