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DFT - 2. (Data systems).


Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe (BPE BPE
abbr.
Bachelor of Physical Education
) has announced DTF-2, a data storage system that is claimed to offer double the capacity and the fastest transfer rate of any enterprise tape storage technology currently available, The DTF-2 series is suited for large corporations with a storage capacity of up to 518GB per cassette and a data transfer rate of up to 40MB/sec. Sony's DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management.

(2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense.
 library configurations offer a capacity of up to 11.2PB using DTF-2 drives. Sony is also presenting a DTF (Digital Tape Format) A high-performance magnetic tape technology from Sony that was based on the helical scan transport and cartridge shell of Sony's highly successful 1/2" Digital Betacam.  product roadmap extending to 2005 with the introduction of DTF-4 that will offer 1000GB of native capacity. A comparative roadmap is available for Sony's Advanced Intelligent Tape (storage) Advanced Intelligent Tape - (AIT) A form of magnetic tape and drive using AME developed by Sony for storing large amounts of data. An AIT can store over 50 gigabytes and transfer data at six megabytes/second (in February 1999).  (AIT), a technology developed to address the requirements of the entry level and mid-range markets that currently offers a Negative capacity of 100B in the smallest form factor of its performance class.

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Title Annotation:Sony DTF-2 data storage device
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:9JAPA
Date:Dec 1, 2001
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