LTO Ultrium - Offering unparalleled tape library scalability
LTO-5 drives and media are now available in 99.9% of all vendors tape libraries. LTO-5 offers twice the speed and twice the capacity of LTO-4. At 1.5TB native capacity and 140 MB/sec native transfer rate, 
you can double the performance of your library simply by upgrading your drives.
Contact our sales representative for more information on getting the most out of your tape library with LTO-5 technology.
What are the benefits of using LTO in a tape library?
- Unparalleled tape backup scalability accommodates a wide range of system formats.
- Easily integrates into current operating environments.
- Four generation roadmap protects your investment today and in the future.
- Migration paths focused on increasing maximum transfer rates to reduce backup window. In addition, capacity will double in each successive generation.
- The LTO Ultrium format offers exceptional investment protection. As a truly open tape solution, the LTO Ultrium format has gained widespread industry acceptance from leading tape drive, media, and automation companies. More than 30 licensees have already demonstrated their endorsement of the technology.
- Simplified product planning means faster cycle time for new features
- Compliance testing ensures that LTO Ultrium drives and media cartridges conform to the specification to deliver data interchange among multiple vendors' products.
LTO WORM
With the growing importance of regulatory compliance - including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and SEC Rule 17-a-4(f) -- there is a need for a cost-effective storage medium that can preserve corporate data in a non-rewriteable, non-erasable and unalterable format.
As storage administrators continue to seek more powerful tape performance, new technologies such as WORM (Write Once, Read Many) functionality can allow them to meet ever-growing business and regulatory requirements.
Found in Generation 3 formats (as well as included in the roadmap for Generations 4, 5 and 6), the LTO Program WORM implementation is designed to provide users with a very cost effective means of storing data in a non-rewriteable format to address compliance regulations.
Robust algorithms using the Cartridge Memory (CM), in conjunction with low level encoding that is mastered on the tape media at the time of manufacture, are designed to prevent tampering. The LTO Ultrium format Generation 3 specification includes the ability for WORM enabled and non-WORM enabled drives to co-exist. In addition, appending data at the end of a WORM cartridge which was previously written to is supported, thus allowing customers to take full advantage of the high capacity tape media.
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