Breece Hill announces availability of DLT 7000 libraries; company signs broad OEM agreement with Quantum Corp.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1997--Breece Hill Technologies, a market leader in DLT-based tape library systems, and Quantum Corp. (NMS See NetWare Management System. :QNTM), the manufacturer of DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. tape drives, Thursday announced that it has signed an agreement that will expand Breece's offering of Quantum DLT tape drives to include the new DLT 7000 products. The DLT 7000 tape drives are featured in Breece's Q1, Q2.151, Q7 and Q47 libraries used for general data storage, archival, system backup and near on-line applications. Breece's DLT 7000 libraries began shipping in September 1996. Breece Hill has partnered with Quantum for the last three years and currently includes Quantum's DLT 4000 tape drives in its line of high-quality automation products. "The new OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement further strengthens our relationship with Quantum and will help ensure our success in the small library market, which industry analysts estimate is growing at a rate of 66 percent annually," said Bob Martell, vice president of sales and marketing at Breece Hill. "Quantum's products and devotion Devotion may refer to:
"Solidifying so·lid·i·fy v. so·lid·i·fied, so·lid·i·fy·ing, so·lid·i·fies v.tr. 1. To make solid, compact, or hard. 2. To make strong or united. v.intr. our relationship with Breece Hill brings advantages to both companies and to the end users who wish to purchase a DLT tape library," said Brodie Keast, vice president of marketing for Quantum's Specialty Storage Products Group. "Breece Hill and its customers get the benefit of the highest performance, highest capacity tape mechanisms -- the DLT 4000 and DLT 7000 tape drives -- available today for library systems. Meanwhile, our renewed partnership with a leading library vendor like Breece Hill will help DLT tape drives become the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. industry standard in the tape library marketplace." Breece Hill Libraries Breece Hill dominates up to 75 percent of the small library market category within the DLT tape drive segment, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a May 1996 report by Freeman and Associates, a tape storage industry research group. Breece Hill manufactures five product lines, including the Q1 library-ready drive and the Q2.151, Q2151 QuickStore, Q7 and Q47 library systems. All products are compatible with 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). , Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Novell and support all major storage management software packages. About Quantum Founded in 1980, Quantum designs and manufactures storage products for today's digitized world. Widely recognized as the industry's quality leader, Quantum sells a broad range of storage products to OEM and distribution customers worldwide. The company's sales for the fiscal year ended March 1996 were $4.4 billion. Quantum's Worldwide Web home page address is http://www.quantum.com . About Breece Hill Technologies With headquarters in Boulder, Breece Hill develops, manufactures and markets tape library systems that serve the rapidly growing mid-range and client/server markets. At the forefront of tape library design and development for more than 10 years, Breece Hill offers a product family that focuses on reliability, superior data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. , low cost of ownership and ease of integration. To learn more about the company's library systems, visit Breece Hill's Web site at http://www.breecehill.com or contact Breece Hill directly at 800/941-0550. -0- NOTE: Breece (R) is a trademark of Breece Hill Technologies Inc. DLT and DLT tape are trademarks of Quantum Corp. CONTACT: Breece Hill Technologies, Boulder Steve Milakov, 303/449-2673 smilakov@breecehill.com or Quantum Corp. Kelli Trask, 408/894-5090 ktrask@qntm.com or KB Communications Kathleen Botz, 800/691-1117 kbcommun@vaultline.net |
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