LTO (linear tape open)-based drives are invigorating the tape storage market. New third-generation LTO drives from Certance and IBM are powering the trend. IBM TotalStorage 3580 Tape Drive Generation ...

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.

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 ...

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

This holographic tape test inside an LTO library makes silica and ceramic storage look painfully far away ...

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 researchers claimed a world record in data density on linear magnetic tape today, packing data onto a test tape at a density of 6.67 billion bits per square inch — more than 15 times the data ...

IBM announced its TS1170 magnetic tape drive, supporting storage capacities up to 50TB native and higher capacities with compression. The product has a native data rate of 400 MB/s and has a 12Gb SAS ...

The imminent arrival of the new LTO-7 tape format, details of which were released in September, is proof that tape has yet to breathe its last, despite multiple reports to the contrary. The LTO-7 ...

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 ...