LTO PROGRAM ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ULTRIUM FORMAT GENERATION 5 TECHNOLOGY
LICENSES
SILICON VALLEY, CALIF. — (January 24, 2008) —
Continuing the support of their multi-generation roadmap, HP, IBM Corp. and
Quantum Corp., the three technology provider companies (TPCs) for the
Linear Tape-Open(LTO)
Program, today announced the availability of enhanced package licenses for
LTO
Ultrium format Generation 5.
Subscribers to the new Generation 5 License will receive
similar benefits of previous generation enhanced package licenses. In addition,
the TPCs have provided for the ability of licensees to gain insight on the
emerging tape specification through a series of regular discussions surrounding
the specification development. This visibility into the specification is
intended to help enhance licensees’ product development programs.
"LTO
technology supports security, portability, high capacity and performance, and
tape offers energy and cost savings for long term archiving," said Rob Clark,
senior director, removable storage solutions for Quantum. "The availability of
the new Generation 5 license is intended to help licensees provide their
customers with the most advanced tape storage and data protection solutions."
Generation 5 is planned to boost storage physical
capacity and transfer speeds over Generation 4 while continuing support for
hardware-based encryption functionality as well as Write Once Read Many (WORM)
support to help address data security and compliance needs. The other class of
LTO
Ultrium Format license, the Specification Document License, is
planned for public availability upon completion of the LTO Ultrium Generation 5
specification.
About Linear Tape-Open
(LTO)
LTO format is a powerful, scalable, adaptable
open tape format developed and continuously enhanced by technology providers HP,
IBM Corporation and Quantum Corporation (and their predecessors) to help address
the growing demands of data protection in the midrange to enterprise-class
server environments. This ultra-high capacity generation of tape storage
products is designed to deliver outstanding performance, capacity and
reliability combining the advantages of linear multi-channel, bi-directional
formats with enhancements in servo technology, data compression, track layout,
and error correction.
LTO media now available at
LTO-1,
LTO-2,
LTO-3
and
LTO-4
LTO Tape Drives now available,
LTO-1,
LTO-2,
LTO-3
and
LTO-4