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Published on: February 12, 2008
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 9 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
The RAIN-EC technologies delivered in Permabit Enterprise Archive, Data Center series represent a fundamentally new way of protecting data for grid storage, designed from the ground up for the unique challenges of a petabyte-scale archive. Robustness against uncorrectable read errors protects the system against the most common cause of data loss with RAID technologies and allows RAIN-EC systems to safely make use of the terabyte and larger drives necessary to deliver cost-effective archive storage. Automatic, unlimited recovery from multiple simultaneous failures provides the security required for an enterprise repository of hundreds of terabytes to petabytes in size. Only RAIN-EC delivers today the billion hour MTBF that large-scale, disk-based archives demand.