Sony AIT-4, SDX4-200C Tape Is An Economical Backup Tape Solution For Space-constrained Business Enterprises

Due to immense growth in E-business operations, the data centers have to work 7x24x365. Therefore, the organizations have to ensure reliable storage and restores along with in-time data availability. On the other hand, threats such as software bugs, human errors, hackers, natural catastrophes and viruses can cause data corruption. It would be a real disaster if your organization does not have backup data to restore from. The IT managers are asked to devise a reliable disaster recovery strategy, while ensuring superior reliability and maximizing the shrinking IT budgets.

With Sony's innovative and highly successful AIT (advanced intelligent tape) format, the IT managers of medium & small businesses can satisfy their backup demands at an affordable price. AIT format clearly outshines with its incredible compactness, higher data compression rate, fast data accessibility and seamless upgrades.

Thanks to the Sony's superior engineering expertise and technical experience in tape industry, the AIT tape format achieves unprecedented storage density and rock solid reliability. There is no other small/midrange tape media format that can match AIT technology on compactness.

AIT-4 tape solution has become a leading standard for financial institutions, medium sized organizations, transportable backup applications, departmental backups, small computing systems, public organizations, workgroup backups and workstations. A small Sony AIT4 tape can pack greater data amount of up to 200 GB (native). Its compact size saves more shelf space, whereas the greater capacity allows you to squeeze your business data onto fewer AIT-4 backup tapes. SDX4-200C represents Sony's intelligently designed AIT4 media tape that allows safe off-site storage, whereas its robust base film provides exceptional write/read accuracy under increased workloads.

No matter how complex or space-constrained is your IT environment, the high-speed internal & external Sony AIT 4 drives provide you the durability, fast media access and reliable restores demanded by the modern time-critical applications. SDX-D900V/NB represents Sony AIT4 external drive, whereas the part number of internal drive is SDX-900V. Their fast throughput rate of 86.4 GB/hour helps reduce backup time. Sony AIT4 drive's compact 3.5-inch form factor facilitates the users to stack more tape drives within a smaller footprint.

Sony offers the right backup solution for every data center and budget. Sony's widest range of tape formats help IT managers meet the toughest backup storage challenges at a greater value. SMB customers looking for other Sony-branded backup tapes can trust LTO3 ultrium tape, AIT-2 tape, DAT72 tape, Travan tape, SDLT tape, DDS2 tape, LTO1 tape, DDS1 tape and LTO ultrium 2 tape.

Customers of AIT-3 tape technology looking for higher recording capacity will find AIT-4 generation a compelling tape solution that will extend their investment. AIT 4 drives feature exceptional capability to record as well as restore data from AIT3 media tapes with exceptional reliability. In addition, the backward read compatibility of Sony AIT 4 tape drives has been extended to the AIT-1 tape generation. AIT-4 format also features WORM functionality that prevents the stored data from being inadvertently deleted or modified.

With Sony AIT4 technology, the IT managers can meet the challenge of storing and archiving voluminous amounts of business-critical data at a reasonable cost.

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