Eurotech Forms Alliance With Crossroads

Eurotech Computer Services Ltd. and StrongBox‘s Crossroads Systems, Inc. has concluded an alliance to bring LTFS and LTO technology to existing Eurotech clients across the O&G, Media, Life Science and Public Sector.

With over 25 years of experience providing tape technologies, Eurotech is in position to assist new and existing clients with the adoption of StrongBox archive technologies.

"Reducing our clients TCO, as well as providing solutions that have better ROI is key to Eurotech; both ROI and TCO can be achieved with the adoption of the Strongbox technologies. Eurotech is planning to replace their existing hard disk archive infrastructure with the latest StrongBox tape offering and by doing so substantially reducing the power consumption in their data centre," Eurotech CTO Marcos Vera stated/ "The integration of StrongBox to our existing Data management software ‘Asset Grid’ as well as our archive services will provide a competitive edge to our offering."

StrongBox provides an open architecture that leverages the LTFS and StrongBox indexing technologies into one single appliance. By using LTO-5 and LTFS together, it is able to break the legacy relationship with existing backup software solutions; no agents, backup software or applications modifications are required.

StongBox is an open archive appliance that transformed tape technology in to an online accessible file system. It is a vendor neutral that eliminated the vendor lock-in. Media written by StrongBox can be read by any LTFS compatible driver or system, furthermore the replication algorithm provides a cost effective replication engine that allows for data to be replicated across multiple sites or cloud services providers.

StrongBox provides a NAS front end to the LTO-5 drives by creating a storage pool and sharing pools to users across the network via NFS or CIFS.