Tandberg Data to bundle Seagate DTA Software with its quarter-inch tape storage products.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1996-- Software Expands Tape Applications, Allowing It To Be Used Just Like a Hard Drive; COMDEX/Fall '96; Booth No. L-4900 (L.V.C.C.) Tandberg Data Tandberg Data (OSE: TAD) is a company focused on data storage products, especially streamers, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. They are the only company still selling drives that use the QIC format (also known as SLR), but also produce VXA, LTO and DLT products, along with Inc., on Monday announced that it will be bundling Seagate Software's new Direct Tape Access (DTA DTA Drive Through Appraisal DTA Data (File Name Extension) DTA Differential Thermal Analysis DTA Department of Transitional Assistance (Massachusetts) DTA Development Trusts Association ) storage management application with the company's new Tandberg MLR MLR mixed lymphocyte reaction. MLR Myocardial laser revascularization, see there 1 Tape Storage Solution and its entire line of PANTHER and PANTHER Mini quarter-inch cartridge subsystem. Tandberg Data represents the first major tape drive manufacturer to bundle the new Seagate software Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world. under an original equipment manufacturer (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. "Tandberg Data has a long tradition as the leading supplier of high-capacity quarter-inch tape See QIC. storage products," said Jake McGill, strategic accounts manager for Seagate Software, base in Medfield, Mass. "This agreement is in keeping with that leadership role, and certainly, their high-quality products are a fine showcase for our new software." Designed for Windows and Windows 95 operating environments, DTA software allows users to work with tape as a high-capacity removable storage medium in the same manner as they would work with their hard drives, floppies and CD-ROMs. Thus, DTA adds a host of new funcitons to the use of tape beyond the traditional backup role, making tape storage a more viable contributor to a customer's daily storage management activities. "We believe this Seagate application will help us expand the attach rate for desktop tape storage solutions," said Jack Robinson Jack Robinson may refer to:
"However, data files, graphics, sound, multimedia and the Internet are making it necessary to have available huge amounts of data storage. We now have the opportunity to provide an alternative storage medium besides hard disk." DTA Makes Tape Drive Appear As `Mounted' Device DTA is an application that loads at boot time The time it takes for a device to be ready to operate after the power has been turned on. See boot. , allowing the tape drive to appear as a "mounted" device. Users have the ability to have read and write access to a drive letter within the same application, the same way users do now with their hard disk, floppy or CD ROM CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory drive. The tape drive appears as a tape icon under Windows file manager and/or Windows 95 explorer. Files and directories can be transferred to tape by simply dragging and dropping. Multimedia files as well as Office document files such as Powerpoint, Word and Excel files can be opened, run and edited directly from tape. Files from the Internet can also be transferred directly to tape. "DTA enables the user to view the tape drive as an extension of the hard drive, offering unlimited amounts of data storage by substituting tape cartridges," Robinson said. Tandberg MLR1 And PANTHER Series Among Products Featuring DTA Software Tandberg Data products that now feature the DTA software include the new Tandberg MLR1 Tape Storage Solution, a 26 GB capacity quarter-inch data storage subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. employing the company's Multi-channel Linear Recording (MLR) technology to achieve unprecendented data capacity levels and recording speeds for a 5.25-inch format tape drive. In addition, Tandberg Data's brand name PANTHER and PANTHER Mini storage subsystems will feature the DTA software. These quarter-inch subsystems are available in both internal and external versions with storage capacities ranging from 250 MB to 5 GB. For more information on Tandberg Data products bundled with Seagate's DTA software, call Tandberg Data at 800/826-3237, or visit Tandberg Data's Internet home page at http://www.tandberg.com. Tandberg Data Inc. Tandberg Data Inc., based in Simi Valley, Calif., is a subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and of Oslo, Norway. The company is a pioneer in streaming tape technology and is the leading world-wide supplier of high-speed, high-capacity quarter inch tape drives and related products for computer backup, archival storage and software distribution. Tandberg Data's products are also sold through distributors, including Tech Data, Gates/Arrow, Western Microsystems, Bell Microproducts, Wyle Labs, Arrow/Schweber, Consan and Ameriquest. Major OEM customers inlcude 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) , Digital Equipment Corp., H.P.'s Colorado Memory Systems division, AT&T, Unisys and Sun Microsystems. CONTACT: Tandberg Data Inc. Richard Severa, 805/579-1000 Fax: 805/579-2555 or Fisher Business Communications Inc. William L. Prichard/Robert J. Fisher 714/556-1313 Fax: 714/556-1216 |
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