The Wait is Over, LTO-8 Tape is Back!
You heard that right, the wait is over, LTO-8 tape is back! If ever there was anything sexy about tape
Category: LTO Tape Libraries
The “Chill Factor” in a Secured Backup and Archive Solution
The topic of data growth and security continues to be a challenge for many organizations. The question to “air-gap” or
Six Key Elements to Improve Media Production Through Better Archiving
As cameras and other media devices steadily rise in number and improve in capability, sports broadcasters, production companies, and movie studios all face a mutually critical challenge: What to do with these expanding libraries of valuable content?
Tape Finds New Uses While Disk Suffers
My thanks to Christophe Bertrand, a Senior Analyst at ESG, for his recent video which includes some interesting factoids from ESG’s 2018 Data Protection Landscape survey. The survey echoes my own observations as a member of organizations that care about such things, including the LTO Consortium, the Active Archive Alliance, and Quantum’s product marketing and product management team.
LTO as a Media Archive for Post Houses
Randi Altman’s postPerspective just published this article that talks about the value of LTO as a great archive storage solution for post houses. I’d like to add my own perspective on a few things, based on the article as well as recent conversations at IBC2018 and some different customers we have.
LTO Remains the Lowest Cost Storage – Says ESG
With macro-trends like looming Zettabyte scale unstructured data and the increasing threat from ransomware, LTO’s properties and attributes have made it a key technology in the future.
Oracle Storage: The Right Choice for Big Data Backup and Archiving?
Your organization is collecting more and more data. Whether you are producing ultra-high-definition videos, analyzing human genomes, or using satellite imagery to study climate change, your growing data volumes are central to your work. Protecting and preserving that data must be a top priority.
Three Reasons LTO Will Continue to Grow
Yeah, that’s right. We believe in LTO, and we believe the market for LTO technology is going to continue to grow. LTO has emerged as a key storage technology in the 21st century.
The Resurgence of LTO Tape Storage
Over the past month, I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time out in the field – connecting with a lot of interesting customers at industry events and spending quality time with Quantum’s regional sales teams around the globe. One common theme across all of this seems to be a resurgence in interest in LTO technology, based on two dynamics and two use cases.
Another Record Year for LTO
The LTO Program announced yet another record year for LTO capacity shipments in 2017, with more than 108,000 PB of total compressed capacity shipped. That represents a 13% annual increase over 2016 and more than double the capacity shipped just four years ago, in 2013.