2023 was a strong year for LTO tape technology with a record 152.9 Exabytes* (EB) of new LTO capacity shipped “LTO tape technology continues to realize annual gains. LTO tape utilization is poised to ...

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 ...

The companies behind the LTO (Linear Tape Open) standard recently published a new roadmap that extends the format up to a proposed 1440TB 14th generation. Can it deliver? Tape still has a vital role ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

HP introduced the new HP StoreEver Storage tape portfolio featuring sixth-generation Linear Tape-open (LTO-6) technology that the company says delivers twice the capacity and 44% faster performance ...

Fujifilm, the biggest manufacturer of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape cartridges, has launched software that allows storage arrays to move their contents to tape libraries while retaining access via the ...