Secure Your Data With Sony Ait-3 Media Tape Technology At Lowest Cost

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Your organization's success and future growth are heavily dependent on the in-time availability of valuable digital content and business critical information. Therefore security of your business data is the most important factor which can provide competitive advantage, and assist the customers to fulfill the rigid mandates of government regulations and data retention laws.

Modern business organizations and backup applications demand something smarter, faster and more reliable. Today's information-intensive enterprises call for AIT (advanced intelligent tape) solution, which has been invented by Sony. AIT tape format offers new innovative media features, robust data protection technologies and improved scalability to handle these demanding challenges in a cost effective manner. AME (advanced metal evaporated) is the core technology which has helped to expand AIT tape generations into higher capacities and achieve extraordinary data density.

AIT-3 tape solution is a top choice for data-rich backup applications, government agencies, busy data centers, remote offices, automated environments and large financial databases. ...
... Smooth tape surface, increased bit density, and robust media coating enable the Sony AIT-3 cartridge to enhance the operating efficiency and read-write accuracy during unfavorable environmental conditions and high duty cycles. That is why the customers prefer Sony AIT-3 tape technology for network server environments and data mining. This tiny AIT-3 cartridge can accommodate 100 gigabytes of native data. Archival life of this robust AIT3 cartridge is 30 years, and provides unmatched reliability up to 30,000 complete tape passes.

The following tape cartridges also have a significant share in the tape market, and are competing against AIT tape format.

HP RDX cartridge
Q2042A, Q2041A, a2043a and a2040a

Tandberg slr 7 tape, 432294

Imation Travan TR-3 tape, 45577

VXA-2 tapes
24R2137 and 11100221

LTO 2 tape or lto ultrium-2 tape
183850, MR-L2MQN-01, D2405-LTO2, 340-8701, 08L9870 and ltx200gww

HP AIT tapes
Q1997A, q1999a and q1997a

WORM (write once, read many) is a powerful and most reliable mechanism that safeguards your critical data files against alterations, accidental erasures, over-writings and common operating errors. Good news is that Sony AIT-3 offers WORM media functionality. Sony's SDX3-100W tape cartridge supports WORM, and SDX3-100C is a simple non-WORM tape. WORM mechanism strengthens the security of information and helps to comply with government mandates. All previous AIT versions are write-and-read compatible with AIT3 drives. This is really an amazing and cost saving feature, which provides enhanced media flexibility. Customers can confidently use the AIT1, AIT2 and AIT3 storage tapes with third generation AIT-3 drive.

Wear and tear of tape reel can increase debris and lead to increased read-write errors. In order to overcome this problem, Sony has applied a robust protection layer over the tape medium of AIT-3 tape, and introduced hyper metal read/write head in AIT-3 tape drives. Robust architecture of Sony AIT-3 drive helps to assure consistent performance with an amazing head life of 50,000 hrs. The media reliability of Sony AIT-3 drives has been significantly enhanced to 400,000 hours.

A smart head cleaner system automatically activates when it is needed by the tape drive. This special technology prevents dust accumulation, thus leading to longer working life. Sony AIT-3 has provided superior storage value and intelligence to the backup tape industry. Product names mentioned in the article are trademarks and are sole-property of their owners.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Sony AIT-3 tape and 432294 SLR-7 tape. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Rob Miller
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
Tel: 888-491-4949
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: rob@tape4backup.com