1996: The Year of Data Backup, predicts AIWA America at PC Expo.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1996--This is the year, many in the computer industry believe, that PC users will awaken to the irreplaceable nature of the data on their hard drives and the danger they court by failing to back it up. As a result, sales of back-up devices are expected to surge. It's estimated that only seven percent of computers are equipped with backup systems, which means the potential market for backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. and drives is significant. At the same time, the hard drive capacity on PCs and laptops continues to grow, reflecting the increasingly large quantity of data the typical user stores there. It won't be long, say industry observers, before these data-dependent users realize how risky it is to avoid backing up all those files. "There's no question that computer users are waking up to the potential disaster that a hard drive failure or other system breakdown would represent," says Nario Nagano, Sales and Marketing Vice President for AIWA AIWA Asian Immigrant Women Advocates AIWA Armenian International Women's Association AMERICA's Computer Systems Division. "That's why we expect demand for backup drives to skyrocket among users of PCs, single workstations and laptops." To meet this demand, AIWA markets two series of backup drives -- a line of QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) A magnetic tape technology introduced in the early 1980s that has been widely used for backup. It was the first popular tape format for PCs. (Quarter-Inch Cartridges) tape drives and a family of 4mm DDS-2 drives for users who require even more capacity. The entire line, including several new models, are on display at this week's PC Expo A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than here in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. In QIC drives, a format the company believes offers the typical PC user the optimum combination of capacity, reliability and cost-efficiency, the company has introduced two drives -- a QIC-3010 internal unit and a QIC-3020 drive available in both internal and external versions. The internal units are easily installed into the computer's floppy drive See floppy disk. floppy drive - disk drive bay. All three drives accept TRAVAN cartridges, for maximum capacity. For users that require more capacity, AIWA offers the GD-8000 family of 4mm DDS-2 drives, each with a native capacity of 4GB using 120-meter tape. Typical data compression of 2:1 yields 8GB per tape. CONTACT: Daniel O'Connell, Griffin Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most & Marketing (212) 255-8491 email: PLANETGRIF@AOL.COM |
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