LTO Advances With New ADIC Library Line.Advanced Digital Information Corporation announced the launch of a line of automated tape library products based on 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 technology from 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) , a market entrant en·trant n. One that enters, especially one that enters a competition. [French, from present participle of entrer, to enter, from Old French; see enter. for the advanced tape technology. The ADIC LTO products bring the storage technology to the open systems reseller channel with a complete line of automated storage products, including standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. tape drives, autoloaders, libraries, data center systems, and enterprise-class tape storage systems. The family of automated storage products is designed to meet the increasing requirements for data protection and retrieval, driven by the Internet, e-commerce, the consolidation of storage, and the rise of Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) architectures. "LTO Ultrium is setting industry benchmarks," says Bill Britts Bill Britt is one of the most successful Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in the Amway/Quixtar business. In 2002, together with his wife Peggy Britt, qualified for the corporations highest award; Founders Crown Ambassador. , executive vice president of sales and marketing at ADIC. "On the technical level, the Ultrium drive from IBM is a tape product [that] make[s] the performance and capacity that we usually associate with the computer systems available for the range of enterprise storage applications. For the growing open systems client-server markets, it means that tape techs affordable and it means that libraries pack the storage punch of data systems. For system storage, LTO puts storage into a small physical space [and] sets records for capacity and space efficiency. ADIC's library, for example, loaded with LTO storage, offers up to 5,180 TB of storage capacity in a unit-it's the commercial storage system on earth." |
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