IBM and HP ready to unleash LTO3
IBM and HP ready to unleash LTO3
IBM and Hewlett-Packard have announced that they will release LTO3 next month to keep the pressure on Certance, which recently made available its own version of these drives.
The new TotalStorage 3580 LTO 3rd generation tape drive can pipe data up to 80 megabytes per second and claims to over almost 20 percent faster performance than Certance's offering.
It is designed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses that require tape storage for data archival, business continuity and compliance purposes, and has the capability of backing up more than five million telephone book entries in three seconds.
Barry Rudolph, the vice president of IBM TotalStorage Tape Solutions, said: "For more than fifty years, our low-cost tape drive storage solutions have been an attractive option for clients looking to balance their ever increasing data growth and need for compliance."
IBM's TotalStorage 3580 LTO 3 tape drive provides 38 percent more tracks than the LTO 2, 100 percent more internal buffer, and 100 recent more physical cartridge capacity.
This means that 800GB of data can be stored on a single LTO 3 cartridge, which will reduce tape handling, minimise space consumption and increase flexibility.
IBM hopes this will help companies which have to tighten their technology budgets, have to comply with storage mandates which demand reliability, have to comply with increasing government regulations and internal data retention policies and are required to retain records for years.
In the future, IBM plans to incorporate Write Once, Ready Many (WORM) functionality into the LTO 3 soon.
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