Backup and data interchange solutions for client / server

Anyone who's gazed into the shell-shocked eyes of an overworked network administrator can see that LAN professionals need more than two hands to get the job done. It's always one problem after another: either the network needs to be resurrected from the dead or some novice user can't figure out how to access e-mail. On top of the daily emergencies is the ever present need to back up the network on a regular basis.

Customers are looking to high-performance tape drives to provide flexibility of backup, archival and restore functions, and Avax's tape products are an ideal solution for these applications.

Designed for use with workstations, mid-range systems and network servers; on a range of host systems, Avax's tape drive family offers customers the highest performance, capacity and reliability available for storage and performance intensive applications such as decision support and data warehousing, document and image management, workflow, database hierarchical storage management, and archiving.

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.

4 mm is a helical-scan technology, where tape the tape moves very slowly but the head rotates rapidly (like a VCR). The latest 4mm drives store 24 GBytes of data on a tape. 4mm technology offers exceptionally low cost per megabyte for low to medium usage applications, with data transfer rates up to 2.5MB/sec.

8 mm is another helical-scan technology that offers an excellent price/performance ratio. Because 8mm was first to market with high capacity backup, it carries an undeserved reputation for poor reliability. Recent innovations from Sony have produced exceptionally reliable drives that offer capacities up to 65GB and transfer rates as high at 7.8MB/sec.

DLT is extremely popular in the LAN segment of the industry because of its' endorsement by Compaq plus, until recently, it offered higher capacities and better speed than the 4 and 8mm drives. Recent innovations in the 8mm market mean that DLT drives now have serious competition in this area.

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 140 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

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 kilometers 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.

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