Etinet - BackBox Express

The Legacy NonStop Tape Drive End-of-Life Problem

The Problem:
HP has announced imminent dates at which support and maintenance will end for many NonStop tape drive models. This includes models for DAT, DLT, SDLT, 3480, 3490 and 9-track tape technologies.

The Challenge:
While many customers may choose to simply buy current technology HP NonStop tape drives, such as LTO, most customers have a large collection of legacy tape media containing archived data that must be retrievable for years into the future. Without supported tape drives on their NonStop systems that can read these tapes, how can they be retrieved?

And:
If legacy tape subsystems are no longer viable, rather than just buying into another physical tape technology, isn’t it time to consider getting rid of tape?

The Solution: BackBox Express™ from ETI-NET
Replace Your NS Tape Drive With BackBox Express™

ETI-NET is proud to announce our new virtual tape appliance: BackBox Express. It is designed as a plug-in replacement for NonStop tape drives.

And it is priced competitively with current NonStop tape drives, making it a viable alternative to adopting yet another physical tape technology. Instead, invest in a better solution to backups: virtual tape.

Perhaps best of all, it includes an open system tape drive capable of reading NonStop legacy tape formats. So you can continue to retrieve data from your archived media. And you can use it to receive SUT tapes from HP.

Features:

Pre-configured for quick, painless installation
A single SCSI connection to S-Series, or FC connection to NS-series
Internal tape drive with NonStop legacy tape compatibility
Automatically virtualizes legacy physical tapes & mounts on virtual drives
Implements up to 4 virtual tape drives on your NonStop system
Internal RAID virtual tape storage for up to 6.5 TB, depending on compression
Tower format, for tabletop access to its tape drive

Benefits:

Transparent operation with NonStop backup & TMF software
Improved backup performance and rapid restores
Reduced operational overhead with virtual tape
Much higher reliability backups – eliminate tape media errors
Continued access to your legacy tape media-stored data
Uses HP server equipment for reliability and field service by HP
Based on ETI-NET’s field-proven BackBox product

Try-before-you-buy! Let us send you an evaluation unit. If you like it, you can buy it.