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"Quantum" Leap Into SDLT Technology.


Quantum's DLTtape Group announced that StorageTek is shipping its L-Series Libraries with Super DLTtape technology. The L-Series L700 and L180 Libraries are among the highest capacity libraries offered by StorageTek. The storage solution provider serves one of the largest installed bases of high-end DLTtape-based libraries in the industry.

Super DLTtape technology allows users of the family of L-Series libraries to scale the enterprise by migrating up to the next level of capacity and performance to meet both current and future growth requirements. These robust tape automation systems deliver asset protection and management to NT, Novell, Linux, and UNIX UNIX

Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
 environments.

"Today's successful businesses depend on comprehensive storage solutions to back up, archive, and recover mission critical data," said Bob Abraham, president of Freeman Reports A series of technical reports on data storage devices originally developed by Freeman Associates, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (www.freemaninc.com). For more than two decades, they provided exhaustive detail about the disk and tape industry, including up-to-date data on technology, capacities, . "Leading-edge automated au·to·mate  
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v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

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 libraries combined with Super DLTtape technology provide solutions that deliver high performance, reliability, cost effectiveness, and scalability."

Over the past eleven years, DLTtape has established itself as the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard.

de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO,
 in performance, reliability, and scalability in the tape storage market. Super DLTtape drives and media answer growing business needs for faster access to data, greater storage capacity, and reliable data protection. Super DLTtape products offer nearly triple the cartridge (1) See phono cartridge.

(2) A removable storage module that contains magnetic disks, optical discs, magnetic tape or memory chips. Cartridges are inserted into slots in the drive, printer or computer.
 capacity, and almost double the data transfer rates, providing faster access to data and improved reliability and durability du·ra·ble  
adj.
1. Capable of withstanding wear and tear or decay: a durable fabric.

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Title Annotation:StorageTek L700 and L180 tape libraries
Publication:Computer Technology Review
Article Type:Product Announcement
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2001
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