The Future of LTO Technology is Bright - and BIG (for Capacity)
Introducing an Extended Technology Roadmap
New generations of LTO technology have been introduced regularly with higher capacity and transfer rates along with new features to further protect data.
This year, the LTO Program has extended the roadmap through 14 generations. The roadmap calls for tape capacities to double with each new generation, with
LTO-14 delivering up to 1,440 TB (1.44 PB) per tape. Once introduced, LTO generation 14 will surpass the capacity of current LTO-9 cartridges by 32 times.
With the extended roadmap, LTO tape continues to show how it’s optimized to support rapid data growth year over year by offering industries a sustainable,
reliable, cost-effective way to protect and secure their short- and long-term data storage archives.
LTO-9 Technology has more capacity, at a lower cost
While storage managers grapple with exponential data growth, fending off cyberattacks and reducing carbon footprints, the LTO Program has developed the right
solution to address their needs. The most recently available generation, LTO generation 9, builds on more than two decades of data protection and storage innovation
to offer increased tape cartridge storage capacity of up to 45 TB (compressed). It provides full backward read and write compatibility with LTO-8 cartridges, and
supports many previously introduced features, including enhanced security via hardware-based encryption, WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) functionality and ease of
data movement via the Linear Tape File System (LTFS).
Contact your BackupWorks account rep today at 866
801 2944 and ask about LTO-9 for your Data Backup and Archive environment.