JUKE A-I-D
ADVANCE INFORMATICS  DIAGNOSTIC
THE ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
 Juke AID software technology is the key to getting the most out of magneto-optical media and jukeboxes in a Novell NetWare local area or enterprise network. If the below sidebar scenario sounds familiar, you should seriously consider Juke AID for you network's mass storage needs.

Total Control
Centralized Jukebox Management
Advance Caching Techinique
Multiple Jukebox Support
Security and Rights
One-Of-A-Kind Diagnostics
AVOID THIS WITH JUKE AID
Friday, 11 a.m.

Looking forward to the weekend getaway. You're the network administrator. You're finishing your second cup of Joe and network traffic is gearing up. Then it happens. BANG! CRASH! You scramble to see what happened before the phone starts ringing off the hook! Too late...

"Hey, what's going on down there?! I was finishing a big report for the CFO when all of a sudden I couldn't access drive F:/"

Don't know yet, Mary. The only calls I'm getting are from the finance department so I can only guess that something's wrong with that hard disk. I'm going to run NORTON to see if it's critical or not. You'll have to wait."

"Can't wait! Mr. Marsh wants the report on his desk by noon."

(5 minutes later) "Hey, Bill, you got that problem fixed yet?"

"Mary, is that you again? Nope. Looks bad. I'm going to have to swap out the disk then restore the data from last night's DAT backup. Could take hours. My weekend could be ruined."

"What am I supposed to do? What shall I tell Mr. Marsh?!"

"Tell him what I always tell him: Microsoft wasn't built in a day."

"Great. You know if Microsoft is hiring?"


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Here's how Juke AID software/hardware solutions can solve many network storage needs and reduce network downtime.

TOTAL CONTROL

Juke AID is a proprietary NLM technique that is compatible with NetWare versions 3.12 and 4.x. Juke AID's NLM software is comprised of several modules-a Jukebox Manager, NetWare device drivers, and front-end utility modules.

Through Juke AID's utility modules, multiple cartridges are imported to the jukebox as a single, logical set. Juke AID sets are recognized by the NetWare operating system as logical devices that can further be partitioned in NetWare Volumes.

Because the network administrator has complete control over set and volume size, jukebox capacity can be easily organized and assigned to multiple functions, such as backup and/or file storage.

CENTRALIZED JUKEBOX MANAGEMENT

The Jukebox Manager module keeps track of SCSI host adapters, jukeboxes, mounted sets, and a host of other important statistics useful for jukebox management is centrally controlled via the NetWare file server. No client-side software installation is required to begin accessing data. Juke AID and NetWare are all that's needed.

In addition, the Jukebox Manager interface was specifically designed to match the feel of the NetWare operating system and its utilities, so learning to use the Juke AID is extremely easy. Juke AID, you'll be configuring sets and mounting volumes in minutes.

ADVANCED CACHING TECHNIQUE

Overall Jukebox performance and reliability are optimized by the device driver modul's patented algorithm and disk caching techiques. By reducing disk swapping and mechanical operations, disk and jukebox life expectancy will be maximized.


MULTIPLE JUKEBOX SUPPORT

Juke AID uses an Advance SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) for communicationwith multiple SCSI host adapters and jukeboxes perfile server. That amounts to unparalled scalability.

ONE-OF-A-KIND DIAGNOSTICS

Only Juke AID has diagnostic utilities that warn network adminstrators of potential problems with an optical jukebox and its media. These advance utilites detect media defects and test the jukebox's optical drive and robotics mechanisms, providing essential information for assessing the wellbeing of stored data.


SECURITY AND RIGHTS

Juke AID software provides the opportunity to password protect sets at the work device level. Network devices can also be mounted as read-only to protect against unauthorized modifications.

With Juke AID, network volumes can also be assigned user-level trustee rights. As a result, jukebox capacity can be divided to match an organization's structure and assigned to ensure confidentiality and data integrity.


WHY MAGNETO-OPTICAL?
Unlike traditional magnetic disk or tape technologies, magneto-optical media is based on an innovative thermo-magnetic recording technology. For a variety of reasons, including the non-cotact optical read/write head and thermally activated recording layer, magneto-optical disks are the most reliable, rewritable direct access media available. Today's double-sided cartridge capacity now reaches 2.6 GB - that's 1.3 GB of uncompressed capacity on-line at once. And at just pennies per mega-byte, these expansive disks are an extremely cost effective choice for long-term data storage.

WHAT'S AN OPTICAL JUKEBOX?

Picture magnet-optical media in an automatic disk changer unit - with a drive(s), picker, and media slots - and you've got an optical jukebox. Mitsubishi Chemicla optical jukeboxes are SCSI devices designed to hold from 16 to 238 disks and up to 12 drives. All but the JA-40 unit have a dual picker mechanism to swap cartridges efficiently and guarantee access to date in just seconds.


JUKE AID CURRENTLY SUPPORTS JUKEBOXES FROM:
Mitsubishi | Sony | Hewlett Packard | Plasmon | Maxoptix

OPTICAL JUKEBOX LINE-UP
Model Number Slots Drives Maximum Capacity (GB)
JA-40
JA-40X
JA-80
JA-165
JA-200
JA-330
JA-620
 16
16
32
64
76
128
238
 1
2
2
4
2
4
6
 41
41
83
166
198
333
619



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