Semi-OT: The Computer Products Division of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. has announced that it has begun shipping Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 1 100GB tape cartridges to drive manufacturers. Starting this fall, in addition to selling its own branded Ultrium tape, Fujifilm will begin Ultrium shipments to other OEM customers. This news comes soon after the announcement of Fujifilm's successful completion of the Ultrium compliance verification testing process for media.
The LTO specification was developed after three years of collaboration between Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate by using best-of-breed technology from all three companies to deliver high performance tape capabilities.
ELMSFORD, N.Y.-(BW)-Aug. 23, 2000--
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IBM First to Market With Tape Storage Breakthrough; New Technology Plays Starring Role in Solution for Entertainment Tonight
Business and High-Tech Editors
SOMERS, N.Y.-(BW)-Aug. 23, 2000-IBM today announced it is the first company to ship products based on a breakthrough industry-standard technology for tape storage. Using IBM's Linear Tape-Open Ultrium (LTO Ultrium) products, customers can store information with up to twice the capacity and speed at about the same cost of existing competitive technology.......
LTO Ultrium products were specifically designed for use in automated tape storage libraries that employ sophisticated robotic arms to automatically retrieve tapes. The process of selecting and retrieving the correct tape is reduced to seconds.
The LTO Ultrium family of products consists of :
-- Ultrium Tape Drive has a capacity of up to 200 compressed
gigabytes
-- Ultrium Tape Autoloader can hold up to seven tape cartridges
(1.4 compressed terabytes)
-- Ultrium Scalable Tape Library automated tape library has a
capacity of 18, 36 or 72 cartridges (14.4 compressed
terabytes).
-- UltraScalable Tape Library automated tape library can hold 877
to more than 2,400 cartridges (nearly 500 compressed
terabytes).
The new technology offers many advantages over other competing formats available today:
-- New breakthroughs in tape-recording density have achieved 200
gigabytes on half-inch format.
-- Bands send out pulses to "electronic mileposts" that ensure as
the tape is being read, forwarded or reversed, it always stays
on track.
-- Error correction control is used to reproduce data that might
have been damaged or lost. This technology can automatically
rebuild the data based on surrounding information so that the
user never knows there was a problem.
UltraScalable Tape Library and Tape Drive are available September 1. Tape Autoloader and Scalable Tape Library are available October 20. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/storage/lto.
Jim |
