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New Innovations in AIT Technology
Brett Schechter, Sr. Storage Evangelist, Sony Electronics
This issue of AIT Forum News kicks off 2005 with an examination of new innovations in AIT technology, and areas where these innovations shine.
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AIT — Now in Its Fourth-Generation Meeting Customer Needs
AIT-4 drives and data media, announced by Sony in September 2004, are now available through AIT Forum partners and their reseller channels. AIT-4 offers 200 GB of native storage capacity (520GB with 2.6:1 compression) and a native data transfer rate of 24MB/second. Sony is the only tape storage company to ship a total of four generations of drives and media within the same format simultaneously.
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AIT Turbo — For SMB Performance, Cost and Capacity Needs
A new line of enhanced "AIT Turbo" drives and data media offer new performance and capacity options to the successful, well-established Advanced Intelligent Tape™ AIT format. AIT Forum News recently sat down with Brett Schechter, Sr. Storage Evangelist at Sony Electronics, to understand more fully the impact of these drives and media on the backup and archival marketplace.
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When to Move from DDS to AIT?
DDS has long been the storage format of choice for direct-attached applications like backing up PCs, workstations, and servers. DDS capacity, durability and reliability matched customer needs and the cost was low. However, the DDS format cannot keep pace with the growth of information to be stored. If you currently use DDS, migrating to an AIT format system is an attractive option, particularly now with the new AIT Turbo solutions.
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GST Debuts Internal Tape Backup Solution for IBM's New i5/p5 Servers
These single, internal tape subsystems are designed to meet small and medium range server's basic backup needs, using Sony's AIT-1, AIT-2 and AIT-3 tape technology.
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Intradyn and Sony Team for Compliant Storage Solutions
Unalterable Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) tape provides an ideal solution when it is important to ensure the accuracy, authenticity and trustworthiness. AIT Forum partner Intradyn's ComplianceVault™ appliance is an integrated hardware/software solution that captures all of a user company's email on a continuous basis from an unlimited number of mailboxes. Sony's partnership with Intradyn delivers the advantage of AIT integrated into a turnkey solution for the small- and mid-sized business (SMB) marketplace.
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