Current market research indicates that typical business storage requirements are growing at a minimum annual rate of 50%. Storage is the largest cost component in the implementation of mission-critical applications, as well as the key to continuous operations.

Any day-to-day business operation that you can think of is contributing to the increased need for storage. All are growing at different rates and require storage on your network.

DISC's goal is to manufacture the world's most affordable and reliable storage solutions. If your storage network environment is one that requires high availability and reliability, you would initially want to look at a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) as your first step. As your storage requirements grow with your business over time, you want to find an alternative to the high cost of acquiring more online storage: enter the DISC NearLine storage solution. See the charts below to understand how DISC products can help grow your network.

DVD, CD or MO media can easily be imported or exported via library mailslots or by exchanging a Pack. The front packs of the NSM Series storage libraries are hot-swappable and can be exchanged while the device remains operational. Each NSM Series Pack holds 15 pieces of DVD or CD media and contains our exclusive MemoryTrak with a unique serial ID number which allows the pack to be inserted and removed under full system control. As a result, the system administrator has full-time access to any data created whether online or off line. The managed capacity of your NearLine storage systems becomes virtually unlimited.

The answer in a nutshell: COST. Most businesses today already have a RAID appliance that stores all company data online; making it fast, instantly accessible and inefficient. Studies have shown that only 30% or less of all data on company networks are accessed on a regular basis, leaving the remaining 70% of information to waste valuable resources. Instead of using up space on expensive RAID arrays and having to shell out more money for expanding your storage when you finally run out, a more cost-effective solution is to migrate old data to a DISC NearLine storage system. Integration of DISC storage solutions to your company network are seamless; users will not be able to tell the difference whether their information is NearLine or online. Using applications from our preferred list of Independent Software Vendors, IT Managers can setup migration protocols through storage management software, to move data back and forth between online and NearLine status at will, significantly postponing the next RAID purchase.