[Veritas-bu] Copan Systems - MAID Technology

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Has anyone looked at the MAID (Massive Arrays of Idle Disk) solution
from Copan?  They have been marketing it as a replacement for tape and
as a pseudo-VTL.  This looks like not much more than just another disk
(JBOD) to be used in a D2D pool.
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Any thoughts or comments about their solution?
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Brian

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