In times of rapidly increasing memory capacity for data, the requirements towards the safety and availability of critical company data also increase.

Quickly restoring access to important data has primarily priority. The previous method of backing up data to tape quickly reaches its limits here. Particularly as data quantities in the terabyte range often no longer have a corresponding backup window.

That is why N-TEC offers high-availability solutions which guarantee that data are kept redundant directly while writing and remain accessible even if one or even several components fail.

The keywords here are data replication, mirroring and memory virtualisation.

Since even small companies often cannot accept any downtimes which could occur in the event of a fault up until the data is restored, N-TEC makes it a point to offer affordable, yet highly efficient solutions to these companies as well.

On the other hand, not only does the availability of data play a fundamental role in medium-sized and large companies, but also the flexible expandability of the storage systems and highest performance during data transfer. It should be possible to enlarge and relocate volumes and partitions online without the user noticing anything.

Scenarios with "No Single Point of Failure" and multipathing (MPIO) guarantee the availability of the data at the highest level.

In the process, the memory systems are completely independent from the utilised operating systems on the host side. No matter whether virtual or physical systems, cluster configuration under Windows, UNIX/Linux or even Netware and Apple Systems, the utilised memory switches supply all systems, even in heterogeneous environments.

The user is just as flexible in selecting the actual storage units. He is not bound here to the products of just one manufacturer. Existing devices―if they have the corresponding host ports―can be readily integrated. Linking on the host side occurs through iSCSI- or FC interfaces, and the storage units are addressed via 4- or 8 GBit/s FC ports.

Volumes and partitions can be distributed across different systems, or the data can be mirrored on different systems.