The task of decision making can be very overwhelming and tiring. If you are an IT manager, you would often come across a situation where you are deciding on the format of backup technology. Before you choose on the best medium for data backup, there are a few important things that you need to review. First of all, what is the type of business for which you require the backup technology? Secondly what is the budget of that business and lastly how often would you need to process the data. Each of these points is of utmost importance when choosing the perfect technology for backup storage. If your business is data intensive, then you probably need a tape with high storage capacity. If there is a limited budget then you have to review the options available in your budget and choose the one that provides a high storage capacity and processing speed.

If the goal is to find a backup medium that has high storage capacity, excellent processing speed and is reasonably priced then one of the best options is Sony AIT-5 media tape solution. Sony is a brand name that needs no introduction, when people purchase Sony products they know they are buying the best product. Sony offers its customers high durability and reliability from its products and Sony AIT-5 tape, part number SDX5-400C, is no different. Being the fifth generation of Advanced Intelligent Tape, it provides to its users a greater level of efficiency and competitiveness.

This tape has a magnificent storage capacity and allows compression of data. It can store around 400GB of native data and around 1 Terabyte of compressed data. The processing speed goes as high as 24 Megabytes’ per second. Media formulation of Sony AIT-5 backup tape is based on the third generation of Advanced Metal Evaporated AME-III, which makes it superior to all the previous models not only in terms of storage capacity and processing speed, but also the longer archival life.

Sony AIT-5 media tape comes with the option of WORM (Write Once Read many). This option prevents amendments in the recorded business data. Sometimes business those have backup technology that does not support WORM suffer significantly because the integrity of data can be effected by the common operating errors or unauthorized access.

If as an IT manager you selected an older version of Advanced Intelligent Tape then you need not worry because AIT-5 tape drive supports backward compatibility. With the option of backward compatibility you can upgrade any older version of AIT, whether it is AIT-4, AIT-3Ex or AIT-3 to AIT-5. One would think that with all these features Sony AIT-5 backup tape system will be heavily priced. This however is not true. Sony AIT tape is priced at a very affordable level in order to make it available to all kinds of businesses. Some people would think that with its storage capacity it’s a tape for large scale businesses but the pricing strategy of the product also targets small and medium businesses. If updating backup technology is on the to-do list, then you know which medium to choose.

Mark Paul is the marketing manager of odsi and publish articles on AIT 5 media tape and SDX5-400C. Mark Paul Online Digital Solutions LLC, 39 Southend Road, East Ham London E62AL Tel: 0203 005 9500 Email: sales@odsi.co.uk