The recent news that the patent dispute over LTO-8 has been resolved is a welcome one. But the time it has taken to sort out might mean that it is too little, too late. As we discussed as recently as ...

Spectra Logic announced today that Spectra Certified LTO-8 Type M media along with LTO-8 drives and all supported media are now available for order. An industry first offering, LTO-8 Type M media ...

LTO is suffering from shortages right now, and it's all to do with patent law suits. This is not good news if you value your data right now. Film and TV production is one of the last, best outposts of ...

Today Spectra Logic announced the launch of its LTO-8 Pre-Purchase Program. Pre-purchase customers will be priority recipients of LTO-8 drives and media, allowing them to be among the first to gain ...

Linear Tape Open (LTO) is a magnetic tape type recording medium for computers, and is mainly sold to the enterprise for backup and archiving. The latest generation of such LTO is LTO-8, but when the ...

The Mercury Pro LTO is a Thunderbolt 3 integrated tape backup and archiving solution that offers 12TB of uncompressed storage per LTO-8 tape for up to 30-year archival storage. The Mercury Pro LTO ...

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

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

“Tape is here to stay” – that is the view of Spectra Logic, which has told customers that if they buy its LTO-7 products now, they will get LTO-8 equivalents when available, probably by the end of ...