SOLUTIONS FOR THE
Banking Industry

For financial institutions, today's challenge is to give customers "on demand" access to their financial resources, from anywhere and at any time. Regulatory changes and technology make it possible but, as with any new business direction, it also brings intense new competition and fresh questions. In particular, the question of business continuity...the need to plan for loss of the use of valuable computer assets is vital.

Disasters have often been seen in very restricted views but now, the need to be able to cope with a range of scenarios is understood. Many smaller companies have made reciprocal agreements with other similar companies in the same market segments who have similar equipment and so lowered the substantial costs involved in disaster recovery planning.

Disasters can come in various forms, floods, fire, storm, terrorism, loss of access, loss of power, theft...

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

Paranoia2 In-line tape encryption unit The Paranoia2 data encryption unit builds on the technology of the original Paranoia unit to provide even more secure encryption, combined with the much higher throughput that is required by today's higher speed tape drives.

Dual drive tape subsystems
Where one tape drive is sited remotely on the disaster recovery site via fibre optic links and a mirror back-up method is used. This ensures that the latest back-up is available on the disaster recovery site allowing for the disaster recovery site to be up and running with valid data very quickly.

Tape Libraries
Avax offers a complete range of 8mm and DLT tape libraries. Once you set up the tape library and install the tape-inventory software, the network administrator sets a backup schedule and simply changes the magazine once per week or month.

TA40 Tape Array
Dual drives providing data striping, mirror and off-line copy modes. Capacity to 130 GBytes. SUSTAINED data transfer rates to 20MB/sec.

Mirror mode produces two identical backup tapes simultaneously, with no additional system overhead. Using this method increases backup security by a factor of 1000! For additional security, the second drive can be remotely located via a fibre link

Tape Subsystems
Avax's tape subsystems cover a wide range of capacities - 2 GByte to 960 GByte, a range of transfer rates - 256 KBytes/sec to more than 20 MBytes/sec, and a very wide range of platforms.

TE40 ultra-SCSI tape interface/emulator

Connect almost any 4mm, 8mm or DLT tape drive (including Sony AIT) to practically any system. Complete emulation of standard manufacturer supplied drives for "plug and play" operation.

Data Interchange Solutions

From 1/2" 1600/6250 BPI reel-to-reel drives to 3480/3490/3490E compatible drives and stackers, or any of the newer format SCSI tape drives (4mm, 8mm, DLT), with data interchange software to handle mainframe and unix formats on practically any platform or operating system - Avax is the single source for all your data interchange requirements.

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
Enable departments to use existing equipment to do what they want, where they want. Using single ended SCSI to differential SCSI converters the bus length available is 35 metres and is less suseptible to noise so is better for use in industrial or other specialist applications.

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