Sony Offers Easy Migration to AIT Solutions as It Marks the End of Its DDS Format Roadmap.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001 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. today announced that it will not develop a DDS-5 format, and will offer 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). (TM) (AIT) solutions to meet the demands for higher capacity and performance. DDS (1) (Digital Data Storage) See DAT. (2) (Data Dictionary System) See QuickBuild and OpenDDS. (3) (Dataphone Digital S technology has been very successful in the market, with broad customer acceptance over a ten-year lifecycle to date. As an early pioneer in bringing DDS to the market, Sony SONY Standard Oil of New York (common, but untrue; it's an urban legend) has concluded that a new member of the DDS family, offering substantial improvements in both capacity and performance beyond DDS-4, is not practical given the realities of time-to-market and technology investment constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. . Sony is committed to delivering world-class world-class adj. 1. Ranking among the foremost in the world; of an international standard of excellence; of the highest order: a world-class figure skater. 2. solutions with its DDS-2, DDS-3 and DDS-4-based products. As a roadmap alternative, Sony believes that AIT technology, with its proven market acceptance and future scalability, offers an ideal transition from DDS, with a comparable 3.5-inch drive form-factor, enhanced reliability and extensive automation support. "When customers are ready to transition from DDS, the key decision factors that they should keep in mind include not only capacity and performance, but also form-factor, and future scalability," said John Woelbern, director of tape streamer 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 marketing for Sony Electronics' Core Technology Solutions Company. "AIT-1 fits this criteria by offering higher capacity and improved performance, as well as a small, 3.5-inch form-factor, all in a scalable product family with greater reliability and robustness at a competitive price." "The DDS product family has been very popular with our ProLiant server customers and we will continue to support their requirements in this segment with the opportunity to transition to the robust and scalable AIT family," said Rusty Smith Rusty Smith (born August 27, 1979) is a short track speed skater from the United States who won bronze in the 500m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and another bronze in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. , director of Nearline Storage Nearline storage (where Nearline is a contraction of Near-online) is a term used in computer science to describe an intermediate type of data storage. It is a compromise between online storage (constant, very rapid access to data) and offline storage (infrequent for Compaq Computer Corporation's Enterprise Storage Group. "We are committed to AIT as our premier mid-range technology and will deliver a migration path to allow our customers to take advantage of AIT's innovations in delivering higher capacity and performance. We will also continue to integrate AIT devices into automation solutions and to make the technology available through our worldwide distribution channel." With a capacity of up to 35GB and a data transfer rate of up to 4MB/sec., Sony's AIT-1 drive offers an ideal entry-point to AIT. The technology will offer up to 100GB per cartridge (1) See phono cartridge. (2) A removable storage module that contains magnetic disks, optical discs, magnetic tape or memory chips. Cartridges are inserted into slots in the drive, printer or computer. with AIT-3 starting in the third quarter of 2001, all the way to 800GB per cartridge before the end of the decade. AIT's wide acceptance in the library automation market provides further demonstrated scalability for customers requiring maximum storage capacity. In order to support the transition from DDS to AIT, Sony-branded AIT drives are shipping with NovaStor Corporation's TapeCopy software, the only solution currently available for upgrading existing DDS back-up tapes to the AIT drive format. With TapeCopy software, DDS users can easily move their data to the premier AIT drive format without investing significant amounts of time or money. "Sony is committed to offering a smooth and integrated upgrade path from DDS to AIT," said Brian Dickman, vice president of marketing for NovaStor. "Bundling a full version of TapeCopy with its Sony-branded AIT kits shows that Sony is dedicated to customer satisfaction." In addition, Sony's trade-in program can be used to upgrade older functioning DDS drives for new Sony AIT drives and autoloaders. Sony has been shipping its enhanced AIT-1 drives since January and currently offers both OEM and branded solutions starting at a list price of $1,395. Based in San Jose, Calif., The Tape Streamer Products Division of Sony Electronics' Core Technology Solutions Company markets storage solutions through OEM, commercial and industrial distributors, retailers and resellers. For additional information about Sony storage products, call (800) 352-7669 or visit Sony's World Wide Web site at http://www.sony.com/news or at http://www.storagebysony.com |
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