<P>Bringing the advantages of Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) to Compaq customers, the AIT 35GB tape drive offers three times the capacity of DDS-3 at only twice the price. The AIT 35GB drive integrates into Compaq rack and storage cabinet configurations. </P><P> With optimized information access features, the AIT Drive was integrated by Compaq to handle the upcoming explosion of data storage management. In businesses around the globe, there is an immediate need for cost-effective, high-speed, large-capacity tape storage that can reliably back up large-scale network servers handling huge volumes of images and other storage-intensive data. To meet this growing business demand, Compaq has endorsed AIT as a new standard in tape storage technologies. </P>