Sony Has Intelligently Engineered the AIT - 5 Tape Media Technology

Sony AIT-5 tape format has introduced the capabilityfactor with high recording density. Sony AIT-5 is
of backward compatibility. This tape family offers thereally a space-saving tape format but offers high
widest range of media storage products in today'srecording capacity. Sony AIT-5 is intelligently designed
tape market. The native capacity of these datato fit in the crowded data centers where space is
tapes ranges from 20GB to 400GB. Therefore thislimited therefore more quantity of these small sized
wide capacity range of this media tapes offers morecartridges will be accommodated within lesser space.
flexibility to the users to select the AIT tape versionSony tape drives feature an exceptional 400,000
that suits their basic backup requirements. This tapeMTBF. This tape technology is also very
technology has enabled the customers of enterprisesenergy-efficient as it consumes less energy, almost
to standardize on a single media storage format. The40 percent lesser than other traditional media
remote offices can rely on the earlier versions oftechnologies. The backup drives are very rarely
Sony AIT tape due to their smaller storage needs,powered off because the most of the time the
while on the other hand the AIT-5 tape format is thebackup windows are open round the clock. As the
ideal choice for data centers. Intelligent features ofSony AIT drives require 40% less power, then it
AIT-5 media make it the best tape format formeans that according to this ratio, a lot of energy
handling voluminous data and support the demandingcan be saved over the long term thus contributing a
applications.vital role in decreasing the operational cost. The most
Sony AIT-5 tape technology has established newpowerful and unique advantage that Sony has over
standards for high speed and high recording density.other sellers of tape drive is that Sony solely controls
Introduction of this tape technology in the dataand manufacturers its own backup tape products.
centre enables the organizations to backupTherefore Sony controls their products when they
voluminous data onto large capacity AIT-5 tapeintroduce it into the market. According to the AIT
cartridges while the small capacity information can beroad map, the AIT-6 tape format is expected to
recorded onto the prior AIT tape versions. Advancedoffer 800 GB in native mode.
intelligent tape format is a combination of 3-1/2" form