Overland-Tandberg Announces Availability of Next-Generation LTO-8

LTO-8 technology available for NEO Series Tape Automation and Tape Drive portfolio

Overland-Tandberg,  announced the availability of next-generation LTO-8 in its NEO Series product line of tape automation and standalone tape drive solutions designed to provide cost-effective effortless backup and archive applications for enterprises of any size. Authorized Overland-Tandberg partners can place orders for NEO LTO-8 solutions today.

Support for LTO-8 allows existing customers to double their capacity when compared to LTO-7. In addition, the LTO-8 drives will be backward compatible with LTO-7 tape media, allowing LTO-8 drive users to read/write any LTO-7 media.

NEO Series LTO-8 Product Highlights:

• LTO-8 offers a compressed storage capacity of 30TB (12TB native) using a 2.5:1 ratio, and a compressed transfer rate of 750 MB/sec. (360MB/sec. native)
• LTO-8 tape, like LTO-7, supports LTFS, WORM (Write Once Read Many) and AES 256-bit hardware encryption
• NEO-XL Series: With capacities ranging from 960 TB to 16.8 PB, the NEO-XL Series addresses the need for midrange and enterprise businesses to do more with less by combining effortless automated backup, disaster recovery and archive with flexibility, density, high performance and affordability to ensure that data is protected faster, smarter, easier and more cost effectively.
• NEO-S Series: Designed for IT offices with limited space, resources and budgets, the NEO-S family delivers the ultimate in simple, affordable, reliable backup, archive and disaster recovery and supports up to 360 TB of data into a single unit of rack height.
• NEO LTO Ultrium Tape Drives: With superior performance and capacity, and available in both internal and external configurations, these tape drives provide up to 30TB per cartridge and are ideal for backing up and archiving data on single workstations or small networks.

NEOs Series LTO-8 Tape Libraries are available now for order from BackupWorks.com, starting at an entry MSRP of $3,199.

Contact your BackupWorks.com Account Rep today and ask for you next NEOs T24 LTO-8 or NEOs T48 LTO-8 tape library quote.