The robust and reliable VXA backup tape media technology
The VXA alliance comprises of the leading companies from around the world. The VXA Alliance is a tape storage industry group focused on providing information and education to the marketplace on the benefits of the VXA Packet Tape format. Exabyte has developed the VXA Packet Technology which is the most significant advancement in tape storage technology. The VXA backup tape utilizes unique digital data packets rather than traditional tracks. These packets enhance the data reliability. VXA backup tape system utilizes Packet technology to store and retrieve data. The VXA Packets offer the users unmatched reliability, capacity and speed.
Today VXA is the new standard for SMB/Departmental tape backup. The Award-winning Packet Technology enables VXA Packet drives, autoloaders and tapes to read and write data in packets just like the Internet, providing far superior restore integrity, exceptional transfer speeds and scalable tape capacities.
The Founding Members of VXA alliance are Matsushita Electric Industrial, Ltd. (Panasonic), Imation, Sony, and Tandberg Data. The Gold Members of VXA alliance are Adaptec, Computer Associates, Dantz, Fujitsu Siemens Corporation, Ingram Micro, Symantec, Tech Data and TOLIS Group.
VXA is the only tape format in the world to read and write data on tapes in individually addressed data Packets. This makes VXA backup tapes up to 100 times more able to restore data than other tape formats. With packets the data moves faster, therefore, the user can save more data, and the data is safer. The VXA packet tapes are disaster Tested and the VXA Packet tape drives restore data from VXA tapes that have been boiled, frozen solid, and dunked in hot coffee. After all those tests, the data still restored every time!
VXA's innovative technology has been recognized by many professional publications and associations and has relieved the followinf awards:
=IT Week Magazine - Editor's Choice Award 2005
=GTC Best Solutions Award- January 2005
=CRN Product of the Year Awards - December 2004
=Best New Technology Award for Storage at FOSE March 2004
=2003 FOSE Best New Technology Award for Storage - April 2003
=Finalist, Macworld Editor's Choice Award - December 2001
=Best Storage Product, MacUser Awards November 2001
VXA Packet Tape products offer a unique combination of greater capacity, faster data transfer rates and dramatically superior data reliability than other tape formats. VXA Packet Technology provides a digital solution to the long-standing mechanical problem of head-to-tape alignment.
The head-to-tape alignment is a common issue with conventional tape storage products. Data restore operations fail due to head-to-tape alignment problems. The VXA Packet Drives write and read data in individually addressed "packets," accomplished by sweeping the entire face of the tape rather than the conventional method of sequentially tracing every tiny track embedded on the tape. Discreet data packets are dynamically gathered and reassembled in the VXA buffer, during the read duty cycle. This is similar to the manner in which data is reassembled via the Internet. Therefore, the data reliability is increased dramatically.
The VXAs users can select the drive generation and cartridge capacity to meet their current need and budget. VXA Packet Drives are also available in Exabyte's rugged and robust autoloaders, designed to meet customers growing demand for the efficiency and convenience of automation. VXA Packet Drives have now been selected by many OEMs, including IBM, Apple, Fujitsu Siemens, and Fujitsu Ltd., providing a definitive endorsement of the VXA platform as the new standard for tape storage in its class.
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