Sony Ait 5 Tape, The Best Backup Solution For Business Enterprises

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Complex IT infrastructures, rush to E-commerce, heightened security concerns and migration of applications from single PC to distributed systems have amplified the data protection needs. These tough challenges are fueling the demands for improved scalability, seamless up-gradation path, faster data transfer speed and higher performance in backup media solutions.

Data administrators across the world are optimizing their backup performance and cost-effectively satisfying their data protection needs with AIT (advanced intelligent tape) format. AIT technology is well-suited for a broad variety of small to mid-sized businesses. Sony is an industry leader in data storage market. Sony has been committed to the tape media industry for more than five decades. Sony is the inventor of AIT backup technology. Five generations of AIT have been introduced that have been well-received by the organizations with constraint resources.

With AIT-5 tape format, you can efficiently meet the needs of mid-range I.T environments, Windows server applications, financial institutions, branch offices, small networks and public organizations ...
... at an exceptional price. Sony AIT 5 tape products have been engineered to elevate the backup performance in client/server environments and data- intensive enterprise applications. AIT5 cartridge delivers an enormous 1040 GB compressed storage capacity.

Sony has developed AITe1040SBK (external AIT5 drive) and AITi1040S (internal AIT5 drive), making it possible to support a broader range of backup requirements. These AIT 5 drives deliver an exceptional speed of 24 Mbps (native), and feature Ultra 160 SCSI LVD/SE interface. Sony AIT 5 devices are the smallest in their class. That’s why the space-constrained companies across the globe count on Sony AIT 5 technology.

Regulatory compliance is the major challenge for data administrators. Sony AIT-5 tape format can help you with its WORM functionality, which stores the data in a non-erasable format. The result is that your valuable data can be reliably preserved for longer time period without any fear of accidental over-writings or malicious data deletions. Sony has developed WORM-enabled as well as simple rewritable AIT 5 tapes. SDX5-400C is the part number of rewritable AIT5 cartridge, whereas WORM technology has been incorporated in Sony SDX5-400W, AIT5 tape.

Sony AIT 5 drives feature a remarkable capability to efficiently perform write-and-read operations on AIT 4 tape, AIT 3 tape and AIT-3Ex tape cartridges as well. So the existing customers can upgrade their AIT backup system without losing their grip on earlier generation AIT tapes.

Some of the other alternate Sony-branded tape cartridges for SMBs are:

Sony LTO-1 tape, LTX100G
Sony DDS4 tape, DGD-150P
Sony Travan TR-4 tape, QTRNS8-A4
Sony SDLT 1 tape, SDLT1-320
Sony DAT-72 tape, DGDAT72
Sony LTO-2 tape, LTX200GWW

Sony AIT5 drive’s 400,000 hrs MTBF rating is the highest in its class. The rival tape drives provide up to 250,000 hrs. Quick file restoration and media load/unload are vital, especially with time-critical applications. Average media loading time of Sony AIT-5 drive is 52 seconds, whereas it can perform data searching at a staggering rate of 2,700 MB/second.

So, confidently invest in AIT5 technology and reliably manage your data at a low cost per GB.

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets AIT-5 tape and SDX5-400C. 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