Today, we have a question about Linear Tape-Open storage. Reader, Daniel Fader of Fort Lee, N.J., writes, “What’s all this I hear about LTO-3 tape, anyway? How is it different from LTO-2? What about ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, ...

If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

The companies behind the LTO (Linear Tape Open) standard recently published a new roadmap that extends the format up to a proposed 1440TB 14th generation. Can it deliver? Tape still has a vital role ...

A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have? With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) ...

More than 10 million data storage tape cartridges with the Linear Tape-Open Ultrium format have been shipped since late 2000, a group of companies behind the standard said Tuesday. The announcement, ...

Solution providers who sell tape backup solutions to the small to midmarket may want to consider Tandberg Data's newest product, the StorageLoader LTO-2 (Linear Tape Open). The LTO-2 autoloader comes ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, IBM Corporation and Quantum Corporation, today released their annual ...

A few days ago, the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium — whose member include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Quantum — officially released specifications for the next generation of the LTO Ultrium standard, ...

Am I confused or did we actually hear about the new LTO-3 (Linear Tape-Open Ultrium format generation 3) tape format only a few weeks ago? Well, there is more on that topic, because with one swift ...

A consortium of companies supporting a tape back-up standard called Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium has introduced the second generation of its technology. The consortium, made up of IBM, ...