The DISC Network Appliance (NA) enables any optical library to be easily connected and managed through a standard network interface; entry level system administration personnel can install, configure and manage it easily, so there is no costly IT support required, and optical libraries with up to 34.5 TB each can be combined in infinite amounts!

The DISC NA virtualizes any optical library into one or more network shares or mount points each being accessible on the network by any application. For example, the DISC NA can be configured to allocate an individual optical disc in the library to a specific user, or it can assign a group of discs in the library to a specific user group or class of data or application. A storage administrator can easily allocate discs in a library to meet the needs of the user environment at any time simplifying storage provisioning of archival systems.

The DISC NA enables companies to unify optical storage based archival systems with their current storage systems through existing network infrastructures. It provides open system standards with easy-to-deploy capabilities that ensure best-in-class archival storage implementations that are "future proofed" with the flexibility and scalability to meet changing business requirements and maximize return on investment.

A perfect team for your data

The DISC Network Appliance combines hard-disk RAID with optical libraries to provide the perfect storage solution for all data that have to be always available, but which are not permanently modified (fixed content). The DISC NA stores infinite amounts of data for ever, secure and unalterable, but available when and however needed! It also provides short access times through a configurable write and read cache RAID. The DISC NA is available as a small entry level unit with up to 1TB of cache and as freely configurable high end fixed content server system with up to 96TB cache.

Seamless and cost effective storage, the DISC NA is a complete, easy to administer plug and play NAS system with support for all operating systems and network platforms.

Open systems

The DISC NA delivers a totally open solution to archival storage requirements eliminating proprietary formats, file systems and interfaces. Any business application can now take advantage of the security and permanency of optical storage for the archiving of data to meet compliancy requirements such as; SEC 17a-4, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, to name a few.

Application servers can easily store and retrieve archival data through industry standards based networking protocols and all archived data is easily transportable to all major operating system including: Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and MAC OS X through the use of the industry standard file format UDF (Universal Disc Format) supported natively by these operating systems.

Applications

• Document management systems
• Legal and medical records
• Audio/video archives
• Banking, finance transaction records
• Security/video surveillance archives
• Photo and image archives
• E-mail archive
• Library and education knowledge database archives
• Fixed content storage
• Information lifecycle management

Features

• No Server or software required
• Optical library set-up in 30 minutes or less
• Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for configuration and management
• Support for all major optical libraries
• Supports all Operating Systems for networking (Windows, Linux, UNIX and MAC OS X)
• Network Protocols supported; NFS, TCP/IP, CIFS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP & FTP
• Optical Media formats supported; Rewritable & WORM; Blu-Ray, DVD, MO, PDD, UDO
• Universal Disk Format (UDF) supported for readability on: Windows, Linux, UNIX and MAC OS X systems
• Integrated performance RAID cache
• Ultra-160 SCSI or FC interfaces
• No client side software or licenses required
• Dynamic media grouping – virtualizes optical media into one or more network shares - individual media from a group can be read independently outside the group
• Automatic media bulk loading
• Offline tracking of library media
• Remote replication manager option available for off-site disaster recovery and backup
• One year warranty

Specifications