Certance Continues Leadership Position As Tape Unit Volume Leader Worldwide; 2003 Marks Third Year In A Row.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Certance Out-Ships All Other Tape Drive Manufacturers 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. Recent Gartner Dataquest Analyst Report Certance LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (http://www.certance.com/), a world leader in innovative, cost-effective data protection solutions for companies of all sizes, announced today that it is the leader in tape unit volume shipments from all manufacturers worldwide for 2003 according to a recent Gartner analyst report (a). The report shows that Certance shipped 575,589 tape drives in 2003 from its broad range of solutions based on Travan, DDS/DAT and LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. Ultrium technologies. "Data protection for mobile users to enterprise data centers continues to be a top business priority, especially in today's regulatory compliance-focused environment," stated Howard Matthews, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Certance. "Certance remains focused on solving these business needs by providing innovative and quality-driven backup, restore and archive solutions with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). We are pleased to be able to maintain our leadership position and hope to continue this year as we expand our range of data protection solution offerings." Certance's data protection products are based on open format tape specifications including Travan, DDS/DAT and LTO Ultrium. Certance's implementation of these formats provides reliable, scaleable cost-effective solutions for virtually all computing segments ranging from mobile to enterprise environments. The complete line of Certance-branded data protection solutions including its Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape solutions and media are available through the company's worldwide network of channel partners and systems integrators as well as through the Certance online store at http://shop.certance.com. About Certance Certance is a worldwide market leader providing the broadest range of tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. products and data protection solutions with a commitment to innovative, cost-effective data protection for companies of all sizes. With headquarters in Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa is a suburban middle class city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 108,724 at the 2000 census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a suburban city with an economy based on , Certance produces a full array of data protection solutions including LTO Ultrium, DDS/DAT, Travan tape technologies and D2D2T (Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape) Refers to backing up data on disks first and tape (or optical disc) second. Backing up onto tape is performed at less frequent intervals than from disk to disk. See D2D and virtual tape. DPA-based technologies including CP 3100 data protection solutions. With more than 12 million tape devices installed worldwide, the company designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of solutions to meet the backup, restore and archive needs of virtually every platform from notebooks and PCs to enterprise servers. Certance can be found around the globe and at www.certance.com. (a) Source: Gartner Dataquest Tape Drive Market Shares: Worldwide, 2003 (March 2004) Note to Editors: Certance and the Certance logo are trademarks of Certance LLC. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are owned by their respective owners. Certance reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. |
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