Backup and data interchange solutions for the process-manufacturing industry

Manufacturing companies have been at the forefront of the business process reengineering drive. With major change the order of the day, these companies have found that their information systems needs have also changed. Where once the organisation's decision-making authority and its information systems were centralised, now the opposite is true. The agile, quick responding manufacturer of the 21st century will need more than just decentralised data distribution, it will need personalised, point-of-use information systems capable of immediate, real-time access by empowered workers at all locations, from the office through the plant to the distribution center.

Equally important, these systems must provide the information employees need, in a manner they can understand easily and quickly, with constant updates to assure accuracy. The answer is available in today's technology, the open system, client/server, network-centric computing environment.

With high-availability features such as disk mirroring and automatic systems recovery, dis is able to provide fault-tolerance for mission-critical manufacturing applications.

Avax's strategy is to develop high-performance technology for four key areas in manufacturing: engineering, process control, product data management (PDM) and MRP II/ERP.

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.

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.

Avax 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.

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 .

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.

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