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Business Enterprises Can Cost-effectively Backup Their Data With Sony SDX4-200C, AIT4 Tape Technology

Backup storage demands of the today’s organizations continue to skyrocket. Rush to E-business, increasing data retention legislations and constrained data-center space have further intensified the data protection challenges. The medium and small business segment calls for AIT (advanced intelligent tape) technology that has been engineered by Sony, the world-leading backup media brand across all tape storage technologies.

Sony’s technical expertise in tape drive and media is simply unmatched. State-of-the technologies like Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME), helical scan recording, memory in cassette (MIC) and protective air cushion make AIT technology far superior to other rival tape-based formats.

Sony AIT-4 tape is the optimal solution for public organizations, transportable storage applications, SMBs, branch offices, financial databases and busy data centers. SDX4-200C is a high-capacity AIT-4 cartridge, which has been carefully engineered by Sony to deliver superior data accuracy and higher operating efficiency under increased workloads. Small sized Sony AIT4 tape offers high recording capacity of 200 GB (uncompressed).

Data centers with limited space can count on Sony’s fourth generation AITe520SBK (external) and AITi520S (internal) drives. These Sony AIT 4 drives offer extraordinary recording density, rock solid reliability and greater data compression of 2.6 to 1. As a result, the AIT4 drive can seamlessly pack 520 GB compressed data onto Sony SDX4-200C, AIT4 tape. Sony AIT4 drives deliver excellent performance with the major operating systems and storage management software. Remarkable speed of 24MB/s (uncompressed) is offered by AIT 4 drives. The customers of data-rich IT environments can be confident of highest level of reliability and exceptional MTBF of 400,000 POH.

Main selling point of Sony AIT4 drives is their 3-generation backward compatibility. Data from all previous three generations AIT 3, AIT2 and AIT1 can be reliably retrieved by AIT4 drive. Additionally, the users are also provided the luxury to record data onto AIT3 backup tapes with superior reliability.

AIT tapes also have been developed by HP Hewlett-Packard. Part numbers of HP’s AIT3, AIT 2 and AIT 1 cartridges are Q1999A, Q1998A and Q1997A.

Some of the other popular backup tapes manufactured by Sony for mid-range and small organizations are:

LTX400GWW, Sony LTO3 tape
DGDAT320, Sony DAT-320 tape
DL4TK88, Sony dlt-4 tape
LTX100G, Sony LTO1 ultrium tape
DGDAT72, Sony DAT72 tape

In comparison to the rival tape cartridges, the Sony AIT4 tapes shed lesser debris. This has been made possible with the introduction of Sony’s cutting-edge DLC (diamond like carbon) media coating. As a result, the Sony AIT 4 drives can seamlessly perform the read/write operations and deliver long term reliability. That’s not all, Sony has also incorporated “super head cleaner” system to help prevent accumulation of dust particles and pollutants. So the customers can reliably operate the Sony AIT4 drives in dusty office environments. Working life of Sony SDX4-200C, AIT4 cartridge is 30,000 passes, whereas it can preserve your data for longer time duration of up to 30 years.

With AIT4 technology, the data administrators can store, archive and manage the continuing data growth at a low cost per GB.

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About the Author

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets SDX4-200C and Q1999A. 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

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