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Roadmap Of Lto Tape Technology Extends To Eighth Generation Lto-8

Public organizations, E-businesses, government agencies, financial organizations and SMBs are creating mountains of data. The future of these organizations depends on the integrity & availability of this information. LTO ultrium tape devices have proven to be the most intelligent and economical solution for the modern data rich applications.
A survey report was published by IDC (International Data Corporation) in 2008 with the title The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe. According to the findings of this report, by the year 2011, the volume of digital data is expected to increase by 10 times it was in 2006. IDC is the world's leading market researcher and analyst, which specializes in consumer technology, telecommunications and information technology. Such enormous data volume will require higher capacity storage mediums that can assure faster backup and archival with greater integrity.
LTO consortium carefully focuses on the current and future demands of its customers and backup industry. IBM, Quantum and HP are members of LTO consortium. Therefore in order to better serve the needs of its clients, ...
... LTO consortium has decided to further extend the roadmap of LTO tape generations. This is really great news for the users of LTO technology and those who are planning to adopt the industry leading LTO tape products.
Roadmap of LTO leads to the 8th generation with a clear vision for future storage demands. Two new generations including LTO-7 and LTO-8 have been introduced to the roadmap of LTO roadmap. The native capacity offering of LTO-8 and LTO-7 will be 12.8 TB and 6.4 TB respectively.
Data compression ratio of these new LTO tape generations has been enhanced from 2:1 to 2.5:1. According to this rate, the LTO-8 ultrium cartridge will hold 32 TB compressed data and LTO-7 ultrium tape with 16 TB. These are really massive storage capacities that will enable the organizations to handle the avalanche of enormous data volumes.
So far LTO consortium has released five LTO generations. High performance LTO tape technology efficiently addresses the cost control objectives and allows you to accommodate huge data volumes within lesser space. Few of the best selling LTO cartridges have been listed below:
Sony LTO 5 tape
LTX1500G
Sony LTO-1 ultrium tape
LTX100G
HP LTO 1 tape
C7971A
Sony LTO-2 tape
LTX200GWW
TDK LTO2 tape
D2405-LTO2
Maxell LTO3 tape
183900
Fuji LTO-3 tape
26230002
HP LTO-3 tape
C7973a
Dell LTO 4 tapes
341-4647, 341-4640
Sony LTO4 tape
LTX800G
Quantum LTO5 ultrium tape
MR-L5MQN-01
With each new LTO generation, the data transfer speed is anticipated to enhance by 50%. The native transfer rate of LTO-7 tape will reach 315 MB/s and LTO-8 tape up to 472 MB/s. LTO is a powerful and high performance tape storage technology, which efficiently addresses the data protection demands in server environments, SMBs, workgroups, data centers, remote offices and high demanding storage applications.
Highly reliable LTO tape products secure your investments and provide more advantageous features including multi-channel support, media interoperability, longer useful life, unmatched reliability, low power consumption, seamless migration path, data compression, and exceptional compatibility, media partitioning and superior scalability.
Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets LTO 5 Tape and Sony LTO 5 Tape. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.
Rob Miller
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
Tel: 888-491-4949
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: rob@tape4backup.com
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