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The Commercial Optical Storage Applications Group. (COSA) is a sub committee of the Optical Storage Technology Assn. (OSTA), who are committed to being the global authority and information repository on optical data archival systems, applications, and solutions for regulatory markets that dictate long-term storage in a non-alterable format.

COSA evolved from the High Performance Technical Committee as a marketing and educational group to address the need for compliance storage products in the light of emerging new requirements in regulated industries such as Government, Medical, Financial and Legal.

COSA is helping manufactures to identify and address the needs of compliant, removable, non-alterable storage products such as optical drives and libraries. Optical technology vendors recognize the need to create a strong organized approach to introduce products that meet critical business needs and to educate technical resellers and service providers.

Today, vendors realize the need to develop a stronger marketing and technical training strategy that would enable them to compete for a larger share of the storage market segment.

What are the objectives of the COSA?

COSA’s charter is to promote storage solutions that incorporate optical storage technology to meet the growing need for regulatory compliance with regards to long-term data retention and/or in a non-alterable format.

Provide education and information about compliance storage technologies to the industry, resellers and end user customers; explain how these technologies operate; define the integration process that enables its use.
Provide growth and development in markets for automated storage technology
In this section, you will find industry papers regarding implemented solutions in various regulatory vertical markets such as Government, Medical, Financial and Legal. In addition you will also find white papers on data retention requirements and technical updates. These papers will be updated on an ongoing basis, so please be sure to check back.

In this section, you will find industry papers regarding implemented solutions in various regulatory vertical markets such as Government, Medical, Financial and Legal. In addition you will also find white papers on data retention requirements and technical updates. These papers will be updated on an ongoing basis, so please be sure to check back.


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