Today, we have a question about Linear Tape-Open storage. Reader, Daniel Fader of Fort Lee, N.J., writes, “What’s all this I hear about LTO-3 tape, anyway? How is it different from LTO-2? What about ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum, announced the specifications of LTO Ultrium format ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, ...

More than 10 million data storage tape cartridges with the Linear Tape-Open Ultrium format have been shipped since late 2000, a group of companies behind the standard said Tuesday. The announcement, ...

A consortium of companies supporting a tape back-up standard called Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium has introduced the second generation of its technology. The consortium, made up of IBM, ...

A record 152.9 exabytes of total compressed tape capacity shipped in the fourth quarter of 2023, an increase of 3.14 percent over 2022. The figures were released by the LTO Program Technology Provider ...

A few days ago, the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium — whose member include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Quantum — officially released specifications for the next generation of the LTO Ultrium standard, ...

One of the newest tools in the fight against ransomware comes from one of the oldest technologies: tape. Having a physical backup of your data, in addition to backups in the cloud or on unconnected ...

Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands, into more congenial devices, ...