ADIC Announces Shipment of Intelligent AIT-3 Libraries; Industry's Broadest AIT Product Line Establishes New Benchmarks for Capacity, Performance, and Management.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), leading supplier of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the industry's broadest range of automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. storage libraries based on Sony's new AIT-3 tape technology. The new line includes all of ADIC's intelligent storage networking library platforms, which are designed to improve backup performance, reliability, and manageability in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. "ADIC is pleased to continue our record of setting new benchmarks for intelligent storage systems by introducing the broadest line of AIT-3 tape automation products in the market," said Bill Britts Bill Britt is one of the most successful Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in the Amway/Quixtar business. In 2002, together with his wife Peggy Britt, qualified for the corporations highest award; Founders Crown Ambassador. , ADIC Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing. "AIT-3 technology offers a combination of performance, density, and time to data that is making it an essential part of enterprise IT environments. ADIC libraries add advanced management capabilities, including path verification, error correction and security features, in libraries that support the industry's largest range of environments, with models offering from 2 to more than 600 tape drives and from 24 to more than 75,000 cartridges
"AIT has become the technology of choice for many enterprise application environments, both for data security and for archival use," said John Woelbern, director of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and tape storage solutions marketing for Sony Electronics' Business Systems and Solutions Company. "AIT-3 takes the technology to the next level, doubling the capacity while providing full backward compatibility See backward compatible. (jargon) backward compatibility - Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. . We're pleased to be working with ADIC to offer customers the widest possible range of AIT-3 automation solutions and products that combine capacity with intelligence to make the IT manager's job easier." The AIT-3 tape format stores up to 260 GB on each 8mm format tape, offers throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. of 31 MB/sec per drive, and average file access times of about 30 seconds.(a) This combination of performance, density, and access times allows ADIC AIT-3 solutions to provide superior support for enterprise backup applications, as well as for storing data for near-line applications. The new AIT-3 technology also protects end-users' storage investment by providing full backward read and write compatibility with earlier generations of AIT drives and media. The ADIC Scalar scalar, quantity or number possessing only sign and magnitude, e.g., the real numbers (see number), in contrast to vectors and tensors; scalars obey the rules of elementary algebra. Many physical quantities have scalar values, e.g. (R) and AML AML - A Manufacturing Language AIT-3 intelligent storage solutions combine easy, barrier-free scalability with high performance and integrated support for storage networks. -- The Scalar 100 midrange library sets new benchmarks by storing up to 9.6 TB native and 25 TB compressed data, and transferring up to 346 GB per hour (native) in a compact library frame that takes up only 14 standard rack units. -- The Scalar 1000 supports up to 48 drives and 1182 data cartridges for native transfer of over 2 TB per hour and capacity of up to 307 TB. -- The Scalar 10K -- the first AIT library to offer capacity-on-demand scalability -- offers up to 4,130 TB of capacity (15,885 cartridges) and up to 648 drives. -- The ADIC AML libraries offer models that can manage up to 76,608 AIT cartridges and over 15 petabytes of compressed storage. ADIC AIT-3 tape libraries are available immediately, starting at under $26,000. About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(a) The Company's storage management software and storage networking appliances provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing and protecting their most valuable digital assets. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . (a) AIT-3 specifications assume average 2.6:1 compression throughout unless otherwise stated. ADIC market share based on IDC 2001 worldwide revenue and unit market share data for all automated systems using DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. , SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. , LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. , 8mm or AIT drives. ADIC and Scalar are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. AIT is a trademark of Sony Corporation. 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