Sony Introduces Ait-4, Sdx4-200c A Compact Tape Media Solution For Modern Business Enterprises

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Nowadays, the IT administrators have to manage, backup and secure huge amounts of data with constrained resources. The organizations must be very cautious and should devise a strategy to overcome the disastrous situation like virus attack, natural catastrophe, system crash and unauthorized access that can destroy or wipe out your business-critical data. Such disasters can result in total business failure. The best optimal solution to avoid such disastrous situations is to store backup of your data sets. Backup storage challenges are more stringent and rigorous, as the business enterprises are having problems with constrained data-center space and shrinking budgets.

The breakthrough in tape media industry came with the introduction of Sony’s innovative and compact AIT technology. It offers extremely high recording density, which allows the small-sized AIT tapes to reliably retain tremendous volumes of data.

As compared to other midrange tape solutions, the Sony AIT format offers superior data protection, fastest media access time, higher data compression and largest media capacity. Five tape generations makes ...
... AIT an ideal solution for long term reliability and smooth storage/retrieval operations with rapidly growing data amounts.

Sony’s high performance AIT 4 technology is ideally suited for un-attended backups, high end workstations, financial organizations, small data centers, transportable storage applications and medium enterprises. Sony SDX4-200C, the fourth generation AIT4 tape, can record an impressive native data of 200 GB. Most importantly, its media capacity in compressed mode seamlessly increases to 520 GB. Therefore, Sony AIT4 technology offers more value and improved data transfer speed to help provide fast access to the stored files, thus ensuring in-time data availability.

Sony AIT4 solution provides a perfect fit for all SMB customers with its superior AITe520S (external) and AITi520S (internal) AIT 4 drives. The Sony AIT4 drives can quickly backup 200GB data in a reasonable time span of 2.5 hours. In addition to this high data transfer speed, these drives deliver an exceptionally fast data access time of almost 44 seconds, which helps to support multi-media applications such as digital image management and security surveillance.

Backward media compatibility of Sony AIT4 drive with previous three generations makes it the product choice of many value-conscious customers. Data can be reliably extracted from AIT1, AIT2 & AIT 3 tapes. Sony AIT4 drive offers another cost-saving benefit to its customers, it can also seamlessly write data onto AIT3 tapes.

Dust particles and airborne pollutants can affect the tape drive’s performance and lead to increased error rate. But Sony has solved this common issue by introducing “dust proof bezels” in AIT 4 drives. Therefore even if your office environment is dusty, you can be confident of uninterrupted write/read operations and superior data integrity, which is not true for other competing tape technologies. The unique architecture helps to reduce pressure on tape media during read/write operations, which helps to boost the MTBF rating up to 400,000 hours. Thanks to the superior tape media formulation, the Sony AIT 4 cartridge can withstand 30,000 passes.

So no matter how tough the backup challenges are, Sony AIT has the best solution for you!

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets AIT 4 tape and SDX4-200C. 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.

Frank Miller
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net