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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Schedule of revenue and long-lived assets by region | Revenue, attributed to regions based on the location of customers, and long-lived assets, comprised of property and equipment, by region were as follows (in thousands):
| As of and for the year ended March 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
| Long- Lived Assets |  | Revenue |  | Long- Lived Assets |  | Revenue |  | Long-Lived Assets |  | Revenue
Americas | $ | 10,914 |  |  | $ | 324,839 |  |  | $ | 12,657 |  |  | $ | 304,007 |  |  | $ | 14,063 |  |  | $ | 340,811 |
Europe | 170 |  |  | 127,890 |  |  | 145 |  |  | 124,821 |  |  | 421 |  |  | 152,186 |
Asia Pacific | 102 |  |  | 52,616 |  |  | 137 |  |  | 47,130 |  |  | 169 |  |  | 60,098 |
| $ | 11,186 |  |  | $ | 505,345 |  |  | $ | 12,939 |  |  | $ | 475,958 |  |  | $ | 14,653 |  |  | $ | 553,095 |
Schedule of revenues attributable to product groups, services and royalties | Following are revenues attributable to each of our product groups, services and royalties (in thousands):
| For the year ended March 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Tape automation systems | $ | 88,751 |  |  | $ | 97,454 |  |  | $ | 152,205 |
Disk backup systems | 51,153 |  |  | 39,722 |  |  | 54,845 |
Devices and media | 60,860 |  |  | 45,767 |  |  | 62,642 |
Scale-out tiered storage | 121,448 |  |  | 103,274 |  |  | 85,887 |
Service | 144,335 |  |  | 148,548 |  |  | 155,674 |
Royalty | 38,798 |  |  | 41,193 |  |  | 41,842 |
Total revenue | $ | 505,345 |  |  | $ | 475,958 |  |  | $ | 553,095 |

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