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The labeling of the steel box can be no doubt of his determination arise. "Built to last", ie to German as "built for eternity," is on the black front panel wrote. A bit misleading is that already. Because the task is actually the well-fridge-sized box, which only with the help of four heavy furniture casters on the concrete floor maneuvers can be rather short-lived: It will endure, which include everything else collapses. Above all, however, they stick together, what else might be lost: Digital data.
Saving for Computer: With the Phoenix black box, in the event of a disaster never recover data lost
Regardless of what a computer widerfährt disaster, earthquake, fire or terrorist attack, referred to in the Phoenix black box should contain at least the last written data survive.
As the fire bird, after which the system is designed, from its ashes again ersteht, will include black box to ensure that data after a disaster usually lost would be saved, so that the concerned firm within a short time the operation can start - if an alternate data center is available.
A snapshot backup in real time
The principle of the Phoenix is simple: Each bit in the memory banks of the computing is written, will land at the same time also in the black box is there for a definable period of time cached. In this way, the gap be filled, even then arises when companies store their data on the safety in an external computing blogsn. The fact is, according to the Israeli Herstellerfima
Axxana only asynchronously, not in real time possible.
The black box, however, finished a sort of continuous backup that is overwritten when the memory is full and the external data into the data center has been dubbed. The manufacturer describes the system, therefore, according to flight data recorders, the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) of aircraft, as Enterprise Data Recorder (EDR) to German company data recorder. Unlike painted in luminous colors, the flight data recorder Phoenix, however, shipped in discreet black.
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The black hull of the Phoenix is only cosmetic. It is the device appears to be a halfway respectable exterior provide. The actual Data is in a bright orange lacquered container that Ölfaß after more than high-tech looks. The shrill warning should probably ensure that rescue workers at the data recorder rooting in the rubble certainly not overlooked.
It should get to the mountains of data does not rely on the device at all to see. An integrated direction-finding to ensure that data is the savior Phoenix under mountains of debris quickly and safely find. If the box ausgebuddelt then, should the data be secured via a special secure network connection via notebook delivers.
But even that one is not dependent Axxana according to the records to arrive. Should the Ausbuddeln is too long, too dangerous or too complicated, the data can be read wirelessly also. By remote control, a radio module to be activated via the wireless network you can connect. For six hours, the radio operating power be sufficient to provide the batteries, but then you have to use a shovel.
iPod's memory instead of hard disk
Whether this is sufficient time to complete the intermediate Blackbox data read out, of course, depends on individual circumstances: the thicker and more humid the rubble under which the black box after a disaster is buried, the lower is the data rate. And whether or not sufficient to read out the entire memory, of course, also depends on how big the store is built.
Compared to traditional backup systems, however, from very lean. Between 72 and 300 gigabytes of storage, the manufacturer offers its customers. The reason: Instead of hard drives or tape devices using the Phoenix flash memory devices, such as MP3 players, digital cameras and some Netbook used. They are much more robust than the usual magnetic media.
Barbecue and Waterbath
And robust is the Phoenix. According to the manufacturer about it in a fire for an hour temperatures of more than 1000 degrees Celsius, can withstand, in this connection to barbecue a further period of six hours at 250 degrees simmer before he takes damage. Even under the pressure of a ten-meter high water column, he was immune, promises Axxana. The data will then be securely protected even if the computer extensive fighting action is suspended or falls victim to storm surge.
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Logical that such a storage cupboard also against mechanical action is secured. To disturb the Phoenix According to the data sheet does not even out if the sky falls on his head - as long as this sky no longer than two and a half tons of weight. And should not the computer in the basement, but in one of the upper floors of the headquarters, of course, it stands on the apparatus possibly even if he falls out the window. Acceleration values of up to 40-times the Erdschwerebeschleunigung (40g, where g = 9.81 m/s2), the 200-kilogram giant uncomplainingly journeys.
A six-digit dollar amount
But still had the data, except in Phoenix laboratory tests can not prove. The specimen was first set in late January when an Israeli company has been installed, reported Cheftechechniker Alex Winokur in "
Jerusalem Post. "Anyway it's still way, because you all may still be in the device, hidden sources of error will turn off before going big in its marketing einsteigt.
Once that's done, Winokur expects, however, golden times. Finally, in the U.S. more and more companies are legally obliged to ensure the safety of their data holdings to take precaution. The need, however, deep in the pockets, if they are from a data black box in the basement wish. At least one sechstelliger dollar amount would be for such a device due, says Axxana CEO Eli Efrat - including three-year warranty.
Well, then nothing more can go wrong - right?
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