*NEWS*80,000,000 CARTRIDGES SHIPED …..

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More Than 2,000,000 LTO Ultrium Format Tape Drives and 80,000,000 Cartridges Shipped
Format Continues Strong Upward Trajectory with Marketplace Acceptance, Green Advantages and Potential TCO Benefits for Users
SILICON
VALLEY, Calif.–HP, IBM Corporation and Quantum Corporation, the three
technology provider companies for the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program,
today announced that the LTO Ultrium format has achieved yet another
milestone that signifies the substantial market acceptance of the
benefits that the tape format brings to the data center. Based on
current data, the program has seen more than two million LTO Ultrium
tape drives shipped worldwide since products based on the format first
became commercially available in September 2000. In addition, LTO
Ultrium format cartridge shipments have now surpassed a total of 80
million units since September 2000, an increase of over 30 million
cartridges since the LTO Program’s last milestone announcement in
September 2006.

“LTO tape products have been strongly embraced
by business and government as an essential component of their backup
and archiving infrastructure,” said Cindy Grossman, Vice President,
Tape and Archive Systems, IBM. “The unique combination of performance,
reliability, data protection, attractive total cost of ownership and
low energy consumption has helped LTO technology continue to be a
strategic choice of customers seeking to effectively address backup,
archive, compliance and data security objectives.”

LTO
generation 4 tape products are designed to deliver the backup and
archiving features needed by today’s storage administrators, including
high capacity, blazing performance and data protection features. With
low energy consumption, LTO tape products also provide organizations
with a green alternative for the data center. Studies have shown that
tape-based backup and archiving solutions can deliver substantial TCO
benefits compared to comparable disk-only backup approaches.1

“The
considerable momentum of the LTO format shows strong and continuing
acceptance of each LTO generation, and there’s no doubt that the
release of generation 4 solutions will keep the LTO format moving
forward,” said Sal Capizzi, vice president and senior analyst, Ideas
International, Inc. “As we look at the hierarchy of storage managed by
IT professionals, tape has a solid role in the data center for the
foreseeable future, delivering needed backup and archive functions as
well as cost savings in hybrid disk and tape backup systems. Tape
brings exceptionally strong price/performance benefits while protecting
data in a very cost-efficient manner, and the added data security
provided by the native tape drive encryption capability of LTO-4
further increases the attractiveness of this format.”

LTO format
generation 4 brings numerous advantages over the preceding generation,
doubling physical storage capacity by delivering up to 1.6TB (assuming
2:1 compression) per cartridge. Transfer rates are also improved to
allow generation 4 to reach speeds up to 240MB per second from up to
160MB per second in generation 3 (assuming a 2:1 compression).

As
with LTO format generation 3, the new generation format also continues
to offer WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) functionality that provides
cost-effective means for storing data in a non-rewriteable format to
help address compliance needs. For additional security, LTO format
generation 4 supports 256 Bit AES-GCM encryption capabilities at the
tape drive level that are designed to enable the writing of encrypted
data to the LTO Ultrium tape cartridge, helping to protect information
on the tapes during storage and transportation.

LTO format
generation 4 provides for drives with backwards-compatible
read-and-write capability to store and retrieve data with the LTO
format generation 3 cartridges, and backward read capabilities with
generation 2 cartridges, to help protect the investment customers have
made in LTO products. 

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September 10, 2007 at 10:07 AM