COPS Monitoring Makes Investment in Technology for NetApp SAN Solutions

Cops Monitoring, provider of alarm monitoring services, has announced its latest significant 6-figure investment in technology.

The company’s storage upgrade to NetApp, Inc.’s newer SAN is a testament to the firm’s unwavering dedication to technological advancement. This strategic move ensures reliable and secure services for our dealers and their customers.

“We understand that back-end upgrades may not sound exciting to most people, but we believe that making frequent and recurring investments is crucial to providing reliable monitoring services,” said Jim McMullen, president, Cops Monitoring. “With a focus on staying prepared for the future, we elected to upgrade our existing NetApp infrastructure. By doing so, we are confident that we’ll continue to meet our customers’ evolving needs and deliver the highest levels of service.”

This SAN incorporates advanced features designed to enhance fault tolerance and provide the latest data security. Equipped with dual power supplies, dual controllers, and hot-swappable components, the NetApp SANs are widely regarded for delivering unparalleled reliability and resilience. Configured in a RAID format for added fault tolerance and employing AES 256-bit encryption, this system also offers data security, a standard recognized as one of the most secure methods available today.

Recognized for its 99.999% uptime, performance, and scalable architecture, SAN technology ensures optimal storage solutions for data centers. By facilitating ultra-fast and reliable data transfers between servers and storage devices, SANs significantly boost application performance and availability, ensuring seamless operations in even the most demanding environments.

To leverage its geo-diverse redundancy, Cops Monitoring will deploy 2 identical NetApp SANs in its New Jersey and Texas facilities. Each SAN has a total storage capacity of 35PB, roughly 1.5x the storage capacity of the Library of Congress, or 13 years of HD video. With this massive amount of storage, these SANs will help to ensure that the company can manage and safeguard the ever-expanding volumes of data generated by its business operations and partners.

A key enhancement in this upgrade is the shift from SCSI-based SSDs to NVMe-based SSDs, which provides higher data transfer speeds, reduced latency, and improved IO/s. These improvements boost overall system performance, enabling Cops Monitoring to deliver faster and more responsive services to its customers.