ETI-NET Ships BackBox® 2.05


 

New features incorporated in version 2.05 of ETI-NET BackBoxŇ 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.

 

With BackBox 2.05, ETI-NET continues to expand interoperability, fault tolerance, security and seamless integration within our EZX product family.

 

Key new features include:

 

·         Integration with the EZX-GatewayŇ Now both BackBox and the EZX-Gateway high-performance cross-platform file-
      transfer/file-sharing products can share the same hardware platform and connection to the NSK system, resulting in 
      significant cost/performance benefits when both products are combined.

 

·         Automatic release of virtual tape storage allocated to expired volumes When volumes are expired by DSM/TC or TMF their
      storage as virtual tapes on disk or in Veritas, Legato, TSM or other "Enterprise Backups” can be released and storage space
      reclaimed.

 

·         Improved fault tolerance and automation of error recovery  The capability for remote disaster recovery sites has always been a
      standard feature of BackBox.  With this release, operation of recovery in single as well as in multi-site configurations is
      simplified.

 

·         Support for NonStop Integrity systems and Fibre Channel attachment

 

·         Ability to write and read IBM labeled tapes

 

·         Optional Compression of tape volumes stored on Windows disk files

 

·         Improved Data Store integrity checking and security

 

·         Improved routing of multi-system EMS messages

 

·         Protection against missed tape mount requests

 

These enhancements help NonStop users to meet the increasingly stringent security and availability requirements of today’s IT environments.

  

For more information, please see BackBox Data Sheet and contact ETI-NET at information@etinet.com.