• Provides a Quick Snapshot of Persistent Data in Your Environment
  Easily implemented tool allows you to get a better understanding of the placement and quantity of persistent data within your organization..
• Simple, Transparent Deployment
  The tool deploys with a simple command line interface (runs on Windows or Linux) and requires no changes to your IT infrastructure.
• Free Data Analysis
  Upon delivery of your data sampling to COPAN Systems, a representative will perform a data analysis based on your sampling and provide you with your analysis and report in an optional face to face meeting within five days.
• Strategy Development Based on Facts
  Armed with the data in the analysis, IT administrators can better manage Tiers of storage by placing the appropriate data on the most cost-effective Tier.
• Leverage Massive CAPEX/OPEX Cost Savings
  By moving persistent data onto COPAN Systems' Enterprise MAID, customers can regain expensive Tier 1 and Tier 2 storage capacity as well as save on power and cooling costs..

• Analysts have found and COPAN Systems has validated with many of its customers that an average of 70-85% of the data in a given data center has reached a persistent state.
• Placing storage on the right platform not only reduces cost of acquisition, it reduces long term management costs.
• Choosing the appropriate platform for persistent data can lead to significant power, cooling and floor space savings.
  
  

Findings from a survey by COPAN Systems in October '08 concluded that CIO's are not managing persistent data effectively and are not fully educated about the environmental and economical impacts of their current storage decisions.

While most industry analysts estimate persistent data to be 70 percent or more of all corporate data, only 30 percent of CIO's believed persistent data to be that large, an indication that most companies do not understand the extent that persistent data is clogging their storage networks

20 percent acknowledged they did not know how much persistent data currently resides on their systems

The survey also indicated that 71 percent of companies are storing persistent data on either primary storage or a mix of primary and archival systems - an expensive, inefficient and environmentally wasteful method for storing static data – so the Persistent Data Discovery Tool is a timely solution to help CIO's understand their storage needs and therefore, choose the best storage solution for their company.

Request or download the Persistent Data Discovery Tool from your sales representative or download from: http://www.copansystems.com/persistentdatadiscoverytool

Unpack the download files and read the instructions.

Execute the command line tool according to the received or downloaded instructions. (No agents needed. The tool runs on Windows or Linux)

Follow the instructions to send the results to your COPAN Systems sales representative.

Receive the results of your analysis with an optional face to face meeting, within 5 business days.

Persistent Data Discovery Deliverables
Detailed summary of the analysis in both document and presentation format, including:

• Statistics on persistent data discovered.
• Tables, graphs and charts depicting most frequently accessed, modified, and created files by type for both size and number of files.
• TCO analysis of data if it were moved to a purpose built efficient storage platform designed for persistent data.

Sample Reports