Cybernetics miSAN D Network Data Backup: Don't Be Like BT

October 14, 2008
Cybernetics mSAN D 125th AES

Think what you want of BT -- trance and electronica producer who rose to mainstream fame as the helmsman behind *NSYNC's "Pop" -- but at least let's remember him for his value as a cautionary tale. In October of 2001, BT's studio was burgled; stolen, along with $75,000 worth of gear, were masters of collaborations with Sarah McLachlan and Peter Gabriel, masters that were lost forever because they were NEVER BACKED UP.

You may never get the chance to duet with Peter Gabriel, but that doesn't mean your data isn't important enough to backup. Cybernetics miSAN D networked data backup drives sport a bevy of intelligent and automated backup features to keep your data safe. They've got more data redundancies than, well, a BT album.

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CYBERNETICS REPRESENTATIVE: The miSAN D product line. Basically what this is it is our SAN solution. Basically what we have here is another RAID array. Again, on this particular demo unit, we have it setup in a RAID 5 configuration again with another hot spare, so if you lose a drive you don't lose your data. The hot spare will kick in and rebuild itself into the arrays so you're back up and running again so zero downtime with that.

And what we can do with this is what it does is it creates one large storage pool. Some of our customers are running 20, 30 TB worth of storage, and you can slice this storage area to however you need it, whatever your needs are, and then allocate it across your network through iSCSI to your individual workstations.

Let's give you a little example. I'm going to show you the interface, and this is our miSAN interface right here -- or miSAN D interface. Okay, and with this interface, as you can see I have one disk already created and I sized it up at about a TB. Okay, and then again through iSCSI, what you can do is you can push this out across the network and then attach it to your workstations, wherever your workstations are.

In old days, when you ran out of space on your particular workstation or you outgrew that particular workstation, you need additional storage, what you would have to do is go and buy a new hard drive, crack open the case, and then actually add that hard drive in. With this, you can actually add storage on the fly.

Again I have a 1 TB disk that's created. Push that out across the network, and actually I have this attached locally to my laptop again, and I have that 1 TB volume right there. Now let's say if I completed working here and I needed to go work on a different workstation because of an application over there I need but I need to carry my data with me, all thing I really have to do is log off that target locally and then reattach it to the workstation I'm on. It might take about a minute. All your data, the whole entire volume is all there, and it shows up as a local drive. On the Windows side, it'll assign it with a drive letter and actually shows up as a local drive. With the Mac, it would actually show up as more storage space.

But those are our two product lines that we're demoing here today, and if we were to compare them to some other solutions out there, I mean they can get a bit beefy as far as pricing goes. We price our equipment for the small to medium-sized business but we also offer enterprise solutions with all our products here. And that's pretty much it. That's what we have here today.

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