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SurePath™ ReadVerify™ Appliance - Augmentation of Tape Library, Drive and Media Systems
Tape drive, media, and library manufacturers have done a great job improving quality and reliability. In fact, if everything associated with the backup/recovery process was properly configured, environmentally controlled and data was kept streaming to the drives - many backup failures associated with drive/media combinations would be drastically reduced.

The Case for Router-Based Encryption
Since the beginning of the digital age, there have always been security risks. However, since the amount and importance of data has grown year after year, securing this information has become more critical to all organizations. This paper will first describe the different options for tape encryption in the market place today: host based, appliance based, router based, switch based and device based.

The Key to Successful Data Encryption
A Guide to Crossroads® StrongBox® TapeSentry™ Key Management
In the light of highly-publicized losses of backup tapes containing sensitive information as well the need to fulfill regulatory compliance, ensure customer privacy and abide by internal controls, corporations have grown increasingly concerned about the security and integrity of sensitive data-at-rest.

Proactive Tape Media Management: A Guide to Crossroads’ SurePath™ ReadVerify™ Appliance’s ROI
Crossroads’ RVA proactively validates the integrity of individual tape media and provides a method for monitoring, validating and reporting on the status, performance and utilization of tape media over its effective life. RVA enables companies to be more responsive to tape media errors and failures, resulting in increased data integrity and significant cost savings.

Ensuring Data Integrity: Logical Data Protection for Tape Systems
In today’s information-driven economy, data is more than mission-critical — it’s business-critical. Data is the very lifeblood of any organization, and the ability to protect, store and access this data needs to be an organization’s top priority. The growing importance of data protection in today’s environment is based on a number of factors: data explosion, disaster recovery, regulations and compliance, and litigation and discovery requirements

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Extending the Life of Midrange SCSI Server Resources
The Case for Crossroads ServerAttach Appliances
Crossroads Systems has developed a ServerAttach appliance purposed to connect SCSI servers to Fibre Channel, and which also presents a cost-savings alternative to the expensive upgrade paths traditionally available to administrators. The SA40 presents a very positive Return On Investment (ROI) for IT organizations looking at alternatives to bring their servers into the Fibre Channel “fold.”

ServerAttach : SAN Solutions for SCSI-Only Servers
In today's economic environment in which organizations need to do more with fewer resources, IT executives face the challenge of managing ever-increasing amounts of data. A key aspect of this challenge is to maintain existing storage-hungry applications on aging servers where difficulties such as low capacity hard drives and lack of interconnect capability with existing or planned storage area networks (SANs) must be overcome.

Crossroads ServerAttach FAQ
Q: What Is ServerAttach?
A: ServerAttach is the act of connecting existing SCSI servers with Fibre Channel (FC) resources using storage routers. Crossroads’ new ServerAttach family of products accomplish this connectivity by allowing any external SCSI HVD and/or LVD/SE capable system to plug directly into a Crossroads ServerAttach product and gain access to Fibre Channel (i.e. SAN) resources via Crossroads patented Access Controls technology.

Tape Solutions - Router vs. Native Fibre Channel
The advent of Storage Area Networks (SANs) has significantly changed the way data and information are stored, accessed, managed and protected. As the number and complexity of storage networks grows, the dynamics of backing up critical data to removable tape media are changing as well. We will compare the different implementations and show the better solutions for both long-term growth and the best price.

Bringing SCSI Devices into the SAN
People typically approach SAN installations with the idea of purchasing new Fibre Channel storage and networking equipment. This is not hard to understand. SANs are relatively new and new technologies can be hindered by compatibility, performance or management problems when working with older technologies that preceded it. However, this does not have to be the case with SANs. Through the use of storage routers, parallel SCSI equipment can be used very effectively in SANs, and managed as a SAN asset just the same as other SAN equipment.