HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) encompass collaborate by the building of a next-generation digital audible extent cassette (DAT) format, the two consortium announced Tuesday.
Aimed at minor and medium-sized business (SMBs) via mode of okay as enterprise next to confined location, the upcoming DAT 320 format provide better establish and largeness complete contained by existence DAT drive, plus the newsworthy classmates DAT 160.
While the two tech firm be in concert sprouting the unsullied revision, both companies will spaced out contribute their individual DAT 320 tape drives and cartridges. The storage hardware be appointed to beat the bazaar during the new moderately of 2009.
"The market have industrialized to the spike at which it feel correct and proper in buttress of [HP and Sony] in the making eventual mutually spick and span to carry out DAT 320. The intact aspiration is to disseminate to come upon the ongoing requirements for background space filler and backup for small and medium[-sized] businesses who as likely want to minimize the blemish of ownership for a farce rescue answer. And a DDS tape drive with a diminutive piece of environment do offer a especially viable bazaar," said Bob Conway, leader of tape article of buying marketing for HP StorageWorks.
In the nearly 20 years since the first digital data storage ship, higher than 18 million drives have be shipped and over 400 million cartridges, Conway noted. The tape market will generate more than US$1.4 billion in 2009, according to an IDC diagnosis.
DAT 320 promise SMBs twofold the capacity and performance of the one-year dated DAT 160 minus doubling the price mark.
A lone DAT 320 videotape offer up and about to 320 GB of capacity compare with the 160 GB complimentary on the DAT 160 format. The technology also offers backup speed of able to 86 GB per hour with 2:1 data compression -- almost twofold the zoom of DAT 160, according to Conway. "The event to force a tape is in the lay down of four hours, and in small businesses that are running 24 hours, the backup can be done overnight and later the tape can be send stale place," he said.
"DAT 160 drives from HP at the tick cost about $849, with a cartridge costing $36," Conway tell TechNewsWorld. "We've been shipping that product for about 12 months in a minute, and we've see ... an mediocre correlation up rate of six cartridges per drive. People can have a office sort of media orbit cook up; hence they're minimize hazard through a media rotation scheme. And that allows a goodhearted creature to purchase a disaster recovery and data protection solution for minor degree than $1,200.
"In a fledgling company or a small company where on earth costs must be contained very attentively, specifically a very viable solution compared to other solution on the marketplace," he added.
The rollout of DAT 320 indicate that fascinating tape -- and the DAT format in new -- is standing alive, companies are still invest in it, and firms distinct it a viable picking for protecting and preserve data, explain Greg Schulz, founder and ideal analyst at The StorageIO Group.
"With the continual rung towards disc-based backup solutions, tape has been declared slowly but without doubt; otherwise, the actuality is that existing tape user involve enhancement to the technology that they are using and rely upon, including DAT," he told TechNewsWorld.
DAT 320's dexterity to reserve more data in a given footprint can spoon out to address economic costs, dominance usage and cool floor scope. For deskbound and archive data or offline data storage needs, tape deposit one of the greenest form of data storage, Schulz concluded.
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