IBM last week bolstered its tape storage portfolio with new media, encryption and data retention capabilities, as well as a new virtual tape library that makes backing up data a more efficient affair.

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., May 21, 2024 – The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise , International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, today ...

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

Anyone around here using LTO-4? What kind of performance are you getting? What hardware/software are you using?<BR><BR>We just went from a 50-slot library with two LTO-3 drives to a 120-slot library ...

An industry organization today announced a new version of the ultracompatible Linear Tape Open specification that adds encryption and offers greater performance and capacity than previous versions.

25 years ago, IBM announced the first tape drive according to the Linear Tape Open specification. Now the company is the last manufacturer of LTO drives. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate joined forces ...

The three vendors originally worked together to develop the LTO tape drive specifications in 1997. LTO-3 is the third generation of the drives. Charlie Andrews, director of product marketing for tape ...

Tape media and drive companies have begun shipping the sixth generation of linear-tape open (LTO) technology, which like previous generation upgrades, significantly increases the capacity and data ...