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GST Finds Sony AIT Tape Meets Requirements For New Tape Line

AIT Tape Technology from Sony Meets all GST's Stringent Requirements for Small Form Factor and Performance to Enable Critical Features in GST's New Backup and DR Tape Solutions.

Highlights:

• AIT filled GST's need for small form factor plus high performance.
• AIT enabled GST to go internal with tape drive on eServer.
• AIT supports GST's modular packaging with small footprint.
• GST controller holds AIT drive and LCD Module in 5.25 inch bay.
• AIT combines the dimensions of DDS with the performance of today's drives.
• AIT roadmap: AIT-1, -2, -3 now; AIT-4, -5, -6 coming.

GST Inc. solved a major design challenge for their new tape product line by collaborating with Sony Electronics Inc. to incorporate Sony's Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) technology into GST's new tape backup and disaster recovery product line. Working with Sony permitted GST to use the smaller 3.5-inch form factor of AIT tape drives in GST's internal tape solutions, compact modular tape enclosures and libraries.

GST incorporated Sony's AIT drives with GST's LCD Module furnishing operator intelligence into the 5.25-inch drive bays of selected servers. The company's new line of tape subsystems and libraries supports the IBM eServer family: specifically the iSeries, pSeries and xSeries servers.