Learn how virtual tape technology can replace older tape technology

Presenters: Tom Huntington, VP of Technical Services, Help/Systems; and Glenn Haley, Sr. Product Manager, Crossroads

Here’s a chance to learn about two leading edge technologies that can help you better prepare your Power Systems running IBM i for disaster recovery. Help/Systems’ Robot/SAVE, a complete backup and recovery solution, automates and tracks your IBM i backups. Crossroads’ SPHiNX, a virtual tape appliance, helps  eliminate headaches associated with doing backups with physical tape. 

SPHiNX is an affordable disk-based virtual tape solution that optimizes media management, improves recovery time, and increases storage capacity while leveraging your existing investments in disk and tape backup infrastructures. Together, Robot/SAVE and SPHiNX deliver a complete data protection and media management solution for Power Systems (System i, iSeries and AS/400) systems within your data center.

The SPHiNX:

• Provides a cost-effective disk-based backup solution enabling consolidation, improved performance, and recovery optimization
• Improves the reliability, integrity, and performance of backup and recovery operations
• Minimizes the human, mechanical, and media errors inherent in traditional tape solutions
• Integrates with Robot/SAVE without disrupting your current backup strategy, policies, and process
• Provides an alternate IPL for reloading the system image
• Integrates with physical tape to support off-site storage
• Reduces media expenses and the number of people required to manage backups
• Enables conversion of old tape formats offline without impact to the IBM server
• Allows replication of data across the network to an off-site location
• Securely encrypts data for regulatory compliance
• Can be scaled to handle data growth within your business

Robot/SAVE provides full media (tape) management functions, whether you have a single system or a data center of Power systems, and supports a centralized scratch pool. Robot/SAVE works seamlessly with SPHiNX and virtual tape technolgy to automate data backup and recovery. And, this combination makes it easier to with regulatory requirements (such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA, and PCI).

Crossroads’ SPHiNX is proven technology that has been around for more than six years servicing the HP Nonstop (formerly Tandem) server market as an HP OEM-branded version. The SPHiNX for Power Systems is a dedicated virtual tape appliance designed to deliver optimized data protection and resiliency within IBM Power Systems environments.

Length

The presentation will last about 50 minutes, followed by a question-and-answer session with Robot/SAVE and SPHiNX experts.

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