SONY, COMPAQ, HP AND VERITAS SOFTWARE ENDORSE AUXILIARY MEMORY STANDARD FOR ENHANCED TAPE DATA ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT.Sony Electronics Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U.S. holding company for Sony's U.S.-based electronics and entertainment businesses. has announced that the American National Standards Institute See ANSI. (body, standard) American National Standards Institute - (ANSI) The private, non-profit organisation (501(c)3) responsible for approving US standards in many areas, including computers and communications. ANSI is a member of ISO. (ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. ) has approved a new, tape media Auxiliary Memory (AM) content and interface standard. Four companies (Sony Electronics, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , Hewlett-Packard Company and VERITAS Software Corporation) collaborated to develop and submit the proposal to ANSI last year in an effort to offer a specification that promotes a common interface method for applications software to better utilize this hardware feature, and to enhance tape data access, data management and media management. Sony's implementation of Auxiliary Memory is contained in its Memory-in-Cassette (MIC) architecture introduced with the AIT technology in 1997. MIC contains System Log pages that capture significant media and data integrity statistics, such as load counts, access counts, and error correction counts (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. ). MIC, together with the new ANSI standard, provides host applications with a "line of sight" to these important statistics regarding the integrity of the media and its contents. With the standardized Auxiliary Memory interface specification, media management software can utilize this information and proactively take action to enhance the future protection of users' stored data. In addition, the data stored in the MIC stays with the media, regardless of the system or application being used, thereby providing a built-in, permanent "legacy" of prior use or performance. |
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