The Resurgence of LTO Tape Storage

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]W[/mk_dropcaps]ow! It’s May already. Between Quantum’s global sales kickoff conferences, the NAB tradeshow, ISC West and a host of other events– April is always an invigorating month.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to spend a good amount of time out in the field, connecting with a lot of interesting customers and collaborating with Quantum’s regional sales teams around the globe.

One common theme across all of this activity seems to be a resurgence in interest in LTO technology, based on two dynamics and two use cases:

1. Hyper growth of unstructured data-sets and the need for low-cost storage at scale:
   From large, hyper-scale data center environments to large media archives in Hollywood and London, our customers are using LTO tape as the basis for low-cost, long=-term archive storage.
2. In the data center, LTO tape provides an offline copy to protect against ransomware and malware:
   This one is driving customers, including those who have previously “gone tapeless,” to come back to LTO tape and start making that offline copy as a best practice.

With new innovations like LTO-8, as well as a strong technology roadmap now published through GEN-12, I believe LTO has a strong future and that the market will continue to grow.*

*That’s right – the LTO tape storage market actually grew in 2017 for the first time in years.

Speaking of…as part of the LTO consortium, Quantum – as well as HP and IBM – recently hosted a webinar where Phil Goodwin from IDC spoke about the changing use case of LTO, and why it is more relevant than ever in 2018. You can watch the webinar here.

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