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Hard-disks are electro mechanical devices and, even though they are very reliable, as they age they will suffer from mechanical wear and will fail. To keep your valuable data safe it is important to make regular backups. Tape backup systems have been in use for many years now and are still the most cost-effective way [...]

The momentum for high capacity VXA tape technology developed by Exabyte continues to grow worldwide. The founding members of the VXA tape alliance are Sony, Imation, Exabyte, TDK and Matsushita (Panasonic) while the other members that joined the alliance afterwards are TOLIS Group, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Tech Data, Symantec/VERITAS, Computer Associates, Adaptec and Ingram Micro. [...]

Sony Corporation quickly responds and utilizes its vast experience and expertise to fulfill the growing demands of fast and high capacity storage mediums, which have the capability to accurately and safely hold the increasing data volumes. That is why majority of the organizations have adopted the Sony AIT tape format for backing up their critical [...]