Crossroads Systems has released a new SPHiNX product suite designed to protect enterprise data from the desktop to the data center. Prior SPHiNX offerings supported AIX, IBM i, and Microsoft. Today's new SPHiNX now serves as a complete, scalable disaster recovery solution for midrange servers, open systems, and desktop host environments, Crossroads says. As a primary repository for data center backups, SPHiNX can be used as secondary tiered storage for replicated data to meet disaster recovery requirements.

It offers flexible functionality either as a network attached storage (NAS) device, virtual tape drive, autoloader, or virtual tape library (VTL) to ensure rapid, reliable data recovery with reduced data loss and minimal downtime. SPHiNX offers an optional Data Replication Suite, Data Encryption Suite, FileStor-CDP, and FileStor-HSM Suites. SPHiNX provides:

• Tapeless Backups -- flexible deployment as a VTL or NAS device for rapid data recovery
• Streamline Backup and Restore Processes -- improved performance, immediate access to stored data
• Seamless Backup Application Integration -- leverage your existing assets, no software or agents to install
• Physical Tape Integration -- archive, disaster recovery and capacity offload
• Built-in Data Reduction -- capacity optimization and network utilization
• Extensible and Scalable -- growth, capacity and system connectivity 
• Remote and Branch Office Protection -- offsite data protection, centralized consolidation

For more detail, check out crossroads.com.