ETI-NET Ships EZX-BackBox^® 2.03

 

New features incorporated in version 2.03 of ETI-NET EZX-BackBox^Ň extend functionality and availability, responding to customer input.  EZX-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 EZX-BackBox 2.03, 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-Gateway^Ň Now both EZX-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 EZX-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

 

·         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 EZX-BackBox Data Sheet and contact ETI-NET at information@etinet.com.