IBM ANNOUNCES 1 TB TAPE INITIATIVE ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAGNETIC TAPE STORAGE.IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) has announced that it has recorded 1 terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. (TB) of data to a linear digital tape cartridge See cartridge. , storing nearly 10 times more data than any linear tape cartridge currently available. One terabyte is equal to 16 days of continuously running DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movies, or 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a lifetime. In addition, IBM outlined the product roadmap for its Enterprise 3590 Tape product line that incorporates the 1 TB capacity technology, providing customers with a clear indication of IBM's future product plans. The announcement coincides with IBM's 50th anniversary of magnetic tape storage that ushered in a new era of information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. . In May 1952, IBM introduced the Model 726 tape drive, which stored a total of 1.4 megabytes (equal to that of 1 floppy disk today) on a movie reel over 12 inches in diameter, using a special tape media developed by 3M. 3M's tape group later became Imation, which continues to be a key provider of tape products. "IBM's announcement of the 1 terabyte 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. demonstrates IBM's continuing 50 year commitment to tape technology," said analyst Dianne McAdam of Illuminata, Inc. "This achievement gives users a solid enterprise tape roadmap that they can look to and a value proposition that consistently reduces the number of cartridges required to backup large databases and that, when implemented, will help them to reduce the size of their existing cartridge inventory, saving valuable floor space." |
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