Avax carries a range of tape and related products for the iSeries (AS/400) range from IBM. None of our units require special software drivers or patches, thus ensuring that integration is simple and straightforward, and that no problems occur when the OS/400 operating system is upgraded or IBM releases patches.

Examples of Avax's solutions are set out below. 

If you prefer to browse our product list according to platform, please proceed to the Products By Platform Directory; our main Product Directory is also an excellent starting point for identifying solutions to your back-up related problems. 

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Products & Solutions 

Backup Solutions 
Data Protection Unit disk-to-disk backup appliance

Backup your iSeries machine (and any Windows, Linux or Unix systems that you have) at network speed to a Data Protection Unit (DPU) backup appliance.  DPU systems are available with capacities from 250GB to 8.8TB internal and up to 92TB with add-on disk.

Available with removable media or in RAID format, data can also be archived to tape (optional) or via a high-speed link to an off-site data vault (DPV) for immediate secure off site archiving.  

Paranoia  In-line tape encryption unit

The Paranoia family of data encryption units offer the choice of AES or interlaced DES3 encryption to provide "Plug & Play" data security to a wide variety of platforms and tape drives.

No changes to your backup procedures or software.

Manual Hard Drive Destroyer

Safely disposing of hard drives after they have reached the end of their useful life has become a majot headache. How can you ensure that the data they contain cannot be retrieved by a third party? The Manual Hard Drive Destroyer (MHDD) allows you to quickly and easily ensure that the drives are completely unreadable - and it operates even if there is no power available.

3490/3490E Plug Compatible sub-systems

Avax offers a complete family of plug compatible 3490 and 3490E drives and stackers, including a high-speed 9MB/sec unit. All of our 36 track (3490E) drives will read and write 18 track (3480/3490) format.

Auto Load 9 Track Tape Drives

Plug compatible, high performance, auto-loading reel-to-reel tape drives compatible with all models of iSeries (AS/400) and RS/6000. Need to transfer data to and from non iSeries (AS/400) sites? We also offer data interchange software to allow you to attach a 1/2" drive to almost any platform (e.g. Intel based) and read and write tapes in iSeries (AS/400) compatible format.

High security in-line data encryption units

Encrypt / decrypt data on the fly between the iSeries (AS/400) host system and a high speed SCSI tape drive.  No changes need to be made to your  OS or backup procedures.

SCSI Switches

Used to share devices or to switch all the peripherals between a live and back-up system in a failback situation; making more use of existing peripherals by allowing them to be shared across multiple platforms.

Extenders

A hardware device which allows a SCSI bus to operate over a distance of up to 40 kilometres using fibre optic cables; a major step forwards for high availability distributed processing, delivering the advantage of both speed and distance for open SCSI working.

SCSI Converters

iSCSI to SCSI bridges, SCSI to iSCSI and bi-directional Fiber-SCSI bridges allow you the flexibility to connect your hardware in whatever way you need.

     

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