Data General Offers Quantum DLT Tape Drive Products.SHREWSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 1996--Quantum Corp. (NMS See NetWare Management System. :QNTM) today announced that Data General will offer Quantum's 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. 4000 family of tape drive products as options for use with the company's DLT 4000 Storage Subsystems The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. backup products. Quantum's DLT 4000 family includes the Quantum DLT 4000 tape drive and the Quantum DLT 4500 and DLT 4700 tape autoloader products. The Quantum DLT tape drive family enables Data General to offer backup solutions with capacities ranging from 20GB to 140GB. "The high capacity and reliability of Quantum's DLT tape drive products made the products an obvious choice for our systems," said Fred Bedard, SSD See solid state disk. storage systems Manager, Data General. "Quantum DLT tape products are an ideal solution for our customers who require high performance tape drives to provide the flexibility of backup, archival and restore functions for their businesses." "The combination of Data General's strength in the mid-range and high-end systems market with Quantum's expertise in the tape drive market is a win for our customers," said Gina Bornino, vice president and general manager of Quantum's Speciality Storage Products Group. "Quantum's DLT tape drive products are well-suited for use in the markets served by Data General." Data General has integrated the Quantum DLT 4000 family of tape drive products into its AViiON product line through packaging that includes rackmounted configurations. Additionally, the Quantum DLT tape products are fully supported by Data General's AV/Networker client/server backup products, as well as its UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services (DG/UX) and MS/NT. About Quantum DLT tape drive products Designed for use with network servers and mid-range and high-end systems, Quantum's DLT tape drive family offers customers the highest performance, capacity and reliability available for storage- and performance-intensive applications such as video, multimedia and large database management. The Quantum DLT 4000 tape drive being used by Data General provides a native capacity of 20GB and a native data transfer rate of 1.5MB/second. The Quantum DLT 4700 seven 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. auto-loader and the Quantum DLT 4500 five cartridge autoloader being used by Data General provide a native capacity of up to 140GB and a native data transfer rate of up to 1.5MB/second. About Data General Data General is an open systems company that specializes in providing servers, storage systems and services to information technology users worldwide. The company, headquartered in Westboro, Mass., reported revenues of $1.2 billion in fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://www.dg.com. About Quantum Founded in 1980, Quantum Corp. designs, manufactures and markets storage products for today's digitized world. Widely recognized as the industry's quality leader, the company sells a broad range of storage products to 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 and distribution customers worldwide. Quantum's sales for the fiscal year ended March 1995 were $3.4 billion. For the nine months ended Dec. 31, 1995, sales were $3.2 billion. The company's World Wide Web home page address is http://www.quantum.com. -0- Note to Editors: DLT is a trademark of Quantum Corp., and the Quantum logo is a registered trademark of Quantum Corp. CONTACT: Quantum Corp. Madeline Flynn, 508/770-3399 (Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most ) or Golin/Harris Technologies Eileen Quinn Smith Quinn Smith is known for playing the shy, picked-on, blonde haired outfielder named "Timmy Lupus" (a.k.a. "The Big Looper") in the original The Bad News Bears. He also made an appearance in the beginning of the first sequel The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. , 415/904-7000 ext. 255 esmith@hi-tech.com |
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