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AIT-Tape Advanced SCSI Processor ( CY-ASP )

The Advanced SCSI Processor (CY-ASP) allows two or more tape drives to work together to maximize speed and capacity while saving time and resources. It is a powerful and flexible tool, yet very easy to use. The CY-ASP connects to a single SCSI bus and can appear to the host as a single SCSI device, separate drives with different SCSI ID's, or as multiple LUN's on one SCSI ID. Each drive has its own status LCD, featuring an intuitive, user-friendly menu, which guides users through mode settings. Current settings are displayed to eliminate guesswork and/or cumbersome menu scrolling, and are retained even after a power outage.

With the CY-ASP, you can choose from striping, mirroring, cascade, independent, and off-line copy/verify modes to maximize throughput, add fault tolerance or make duplicate tapes for off-site storage or data exchange, and you can easily change modes without having to cycle power.

Striping mode: Increase both capacity and throughput by interleaving to multiple tape drives, keeping each drive streaming at maximum speed. The CY-ASP accepts much higher data streams for the fastest backup and data acquisition applications. Just as RAID striping revolutionized disk speed, CY-ASP offers the same benefits in writing to tape.

Mirroring mode: The high performance processor writes duplicate originals in the same time it takes to write the data once, for off-site storage or data exchange. Mirrored backup has the added benefit of fault tolerance—a media failure on one tape will not stop your backup operation.

Cascade mode: Backup continues on the next tape once the previous tape is full for increased unattended tape backup capacity, even if your software does not support tape spanning. Set to finish with EOT on the last drive in the cascade set or for continuous cascade restarting at drive one if the tape has been changed. Supports both seamless tape sets and independent tape sets depending on software requirements.

Offline copy/verify: Copies the contents of one tape to another at maximum speed, and compares tapes to ensure that they are identical. A block by block copy of a master to a blank tape without host intervention means perfect tape duplication regardless of the source—even supports block sizes of up to 512k. And, the CY-ASP subsystem does not even need to be connected to a computer system at all to duplicate tapes.

Independent mode: Each tape drive can operate completely independently and simultaneously so you can even backup with one drive while you restore with another. Supports separate SCSI ID's or Logical Unit Numbers (LUN's).

Makes tape duplication fast and efficient

Provides fault tolerant operation

Features offline copy and verify functions

Supports 2-7 drives

User-friendly, intuitive menu lets you select operating mode, density, compression, and SCSI ID without cycling power

iVIEW display for each drive provides real-time status information

Features built-in hardware diagnostics

Cybernetics’ drive status LCD has now gone remote!
iVIEW is a standard feature with all iTape products, and is an option available for most of our direct SCSI attached devices. Simply connect your Cybernetics tape drive with iVIEW to your Ethernet network, and view the backup status window from any system on your entire network - intranet and internet, using any web browser. Use your Backup Window to check the status of your tape backup any time, anywhere.

Data Encryption – SIMPLIFIED

Cybernetics has just released our newest, third generation hardware encryption option. Data is compressed before it is encrypted so the required tape capacity is actually decreased, typically by a factor of two to one. The entire process of compressing and encrypting is handled in a high performance encryption offload engine so there is no negative impact on processing speed. The integrated compression feature improves speed as well as capacity. Key management is based on encryption tokens, which allow physical control and easy visual audit.

USB Tape Offload

Want to offload virtual disk to a removable media? Cybernetics Virtual Tape Library solutions feature a Tape Offload feature that copies data to USB disk for secure off-site storage. USB disk can be mounted to ensure no single point of failure. This feature is available with miSAN V Series D2D2T Backup solution, as well as the miSAN D Series iSCSI Storage solution.

miSAN

With the introduction of miSAN™, Cybernetics settles the debate over NAS versus SAN. miSAN™ incorporates the best features of NAS with the best features of SAN to strike the perfect balance in Ethernet storage networking. A typical NAS is affordable and very easy to implement using the existing networking infrastructure, but the file system overhead imposes serious speed limitations and application compatibility constraints. A traditional SAN can deliver exceptional performance benefits, but the costs and complexity of the hardware, cabling and software can be staggering. miSAN™ merges only the best features of NAS and SAN into a powerful storage solution that overcomes the limitations of both.

iSAN IP SAN - Ethernet Attached SAN

The concept is simple: strategically position centralized data storage resources across your existing Ethernet network to optimize shared storage availability, maximize hardware performance, and streamline storage management. And now, Cybernetics makes implementation just as simple - as well as affordable.