FAA Selects Plasmon UDO Storage Technology To Archive 22,000 Pages A Day

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Because of the critical nature of the data that the Civil Aviation Registry maintains, and its strict compliance regulations, it was paramount to develop a solution that could provide longevity, authenticity and ease of access to its critical business data while meeting all data-retention regulations. These also are the reasons why the Registry chose to work with Plasmon as part of its best-practices storage archive solution. The Registry's data center team developed an environment that would maintain three copies of its most critical data and create a parallel stream for storing the information in three different locations on two different types of media.

The goal of this strategy was to achieve a true archive that is protected for the life of the data but still easily accessible. "I recently heard a best practice for the storage of critical data that made quite a bit of sense to me," said Mr. Mike Frakes, team lead, data center for the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aviation Registry. "The principle is to maintain three copies of your critical data and have it stored on at least two different types of media. This is the standard that has guided us to where we are today with a mix of magnetic and optical storage." The FAA Civil Aviation Registry's data center includes two magnetic tiered storage devices geographically separated using replication over leased fiber to maintain the first and second copies of their data. To diversify and ensure they were meeting the FAA's strict standards, the data center team at the Registry deployed a Plasmon G638 Series Library to create a third copy of data that is stored on UDO (Ultra Density Optical) media. "The combination of the very low TCO of UDO storage, and the authenticity, longevity, and speed of access to the data, makes this solution a win-win situation for the FAA Registry," said Frakes. The Plasmon G-Series Library is set up to be the FAA's second archive layer behind an EMC Centera. Everything that comes into the Registry's data center goes directly to the Plasmon Library and to the EMC Centera at the same time.

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