Rapidly-expanding capacity requirements coupled with an industry shift to disk-based data storage make affordable, scalable, manageable and reliable storage hardware a “must-have” for institutions and enterprises of all sizes and ilks.
Organizations around the globe, including major digital preservation sites, large outsourcers, co-locators, universities, libraries, scientific institutes, health care organizations, commercial film labs, and national archives have turned to Capricorn for their data storage solutions. For these customers, the PetaBox has redefined the economics of storage.
With its unique storage architecture, Capricorn Technologies’ PetaBox delivers high density, highly reliable, highly scalable, and highly available data storage in a flexible environment with very low total cost of ownership. Whether you are looking to consolidate or migrate storage, streamline data archiving, expand overall capacity, or house fixed data content, the PetaBox offers an effective, affordable solution.
Economy and Value
The PetaBox delivers the lowest cost/terabyte of any storage platform. Short of building and maintaining your own device, the PetaBox provides the best cost-performance of any storage platform – from initial purchase throughout its lifetime.
Scalable Architecture
The PetaBox is completely scalable, from individual terabyte nodes to petabyte clusters. A single 19-inch rack can support up to 120TB of raw disk space. This density is achieved through an economy of design that consumes as little as 27 watts per terabyte.
Energy Efficient
The PetaBox’ modest power consumption provides a host of benefits, including reduced operating temperatures and enhanced reliability, while keeping operating cost, cooling requirements and maintenance to an absolute minimum. Combined with an economical entry point, these features yield the lowest TCO available today.
Additional Benefits provided by the PetaBox include:
- A simple, customized design that’s easy to install, mount, manage and maintain.
- Unsurpassed availability and serviceability. With less than a 3% failure rate overall, the PetaBox delivers continuous, high availability to your data.
- Real Estate Retrieval. Our compact, low heat dissipating design allows you to house more racks in less square footage, consuming less power.
- Tested, Proven Technology. With many petabytes of Capricorn storage in place for over two years in various sites around the world, the PetaBox has proven to have a strong history of reliability and long MTBF.
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