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New features incorporated in version 2.05 of ETI-NET BackBox^® extend functionality and availability, responding to customer input. BackBox provides a powerful virtual tape robot solution for all HP NonStop servers and allows NonStop systems to use existing corporate storage environments and physical tape resources.

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At the HP Technology Forum & Expo 2008, Las Vegas, ETI-NET introduced our new BackBox Express™

BackBox Express™ is especially packaged to meet the needs of customers replacing end-of-life tape drives. BackBox Express™ can be configured with an internal tape drive permitting retrieval of Legacy archived NonStop tape media, and can be cross-connected between K-series, S-series and NS series hosts to enable use of virtual tape as a system migration path.
BackBox Express™ provides a solution for low-end NonStop systems that cannot justify the entry level high costs of other virtual tape products for NonStop systems.
BackBox Express™ also provides a cost-effective solution for the majority of NonStop systems that do not require the complexity or costs of other virtual tape systems.

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ETI-NET also introduced Gateway²

Many NonStop systems exchange data with IBM mainframes on a regular basis, such as handing off end-of-day account data and receiving start-of-day data. This is common among BASE24 installations.

Gateway² uses the proven technology of ETI-NET’s BackBox virtual tape product to permit NonStop applications to write and read virtual tapes on an intermediate staging storage area.
A similar technique is used to permit Mainframe applications to write and read virtual tapes in that staging area.

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ETI-NET’s BackBox product, including SCSI and FC interfaces to NonStop hosts, has been tested and certified for use on HP C-series blades at the HP’s Cupertino Partner Technology Access Center (PTAC), in conjunction with HP’s Solution Alliances Engineering group.

When implemented on HP C-class Blade platforms, up to 8 BackBox VTCs can be implemented in a C7000 (10U) enclosure or 4 VTCs in a C3000 (6U) enclosure, each VTC with up to 4 SCSI or Fibre Channel connections to NonStop host systems. This is an unprecedented density for NonStop virtual tape products, providing up to 32 NonStop host connections, with corresponding processing power and storage back-end connectivity to ensure maximum throughput.

Why Blades for BackBox?
Implementation of BackBox hardware and software in a Blade environment offers many advantages:
- Denser packaging, as well as integration of FC & Ethernet switch infrastructures, reduces rack space requirements significantly;
- Compute power can be selected by individual Blade, to tailor it to the BackBox VTC throughput requirements;
- Enable packaging Enterprise Storage Management servers, including clusters, in the same enclosure;
- Reduce significantly the number of interconnect cables required, and thus potential points of failure;
- Higher degree of power supply and cooling redundancy than in conventional servers;
- Intelligent cooling design reduces both power and data center cooling requirements;
- HP’s Onboard Administrator, together with server and infrastructure management software simplifies monitoring and control of the servers.

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Finally physical tape can be eliminated from disaster recovery operations, along with all of its costs and risks. Based on BackBox, ETI-NET’s powerful virtual tape subsystem for NonStop systems, and Data Domain’s data de-duplication products, this new capability solves the messy problems of movement of backup tape catalog metadata as well as the tapes themselves.

Data de-duplication is one of the hottest topics in storage management
and backup technologies today, and Data Domain is the pre-eminent
supplier of products that embody it. ETI-NET has partnered with Data
Domain to enable NonStop users to take advantage of this techology,
reducing the need for tape and enabling new approaches to DR.

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What do you do if you are a major wireless carrier with 2.6 TB of month-end subscriber call records to transfer from your NonStop systems to an IBM MVS back-office system, but only a 2 hour window to do it? And you need full automation, assurance of delivery integrity, fault tolerance, as well as expandability for future growth?

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Over 1 TByte/hour! ETI-NET's new BackHome/Ultra gives NonStop
Integrity users the ability to backup their large TMF-protected databases
extremely quickly, painlessly and often, enabling quick TMF roll-forward
to restore to a point in time.

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While EZX/BackBox has been able to migrate backup data to EMC/Legato
NetWorker servers via a scripted NetWorker client, ETI-NET announces
a new EZX/BackBox "conduit" mode for NetWorker. Instead of staging
virtual tape images on BackBox disk and then migrating them to a Networker
server, now the backup data can be passed directly to the Networker
server via its API. More info to come.....

BackBox is the winning ticket for Loto Quebec. When Loto Quebec went looking for a Virtual Tape solution they select ETI-NET's BackBox as the winning solution.

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In preparation for the release of HP NonStop Itanium machines and with the cooperation of HP ETI-NET has tested their current product base for certification on these machines. Please follow the hyperlink for the results.

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