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Technology Stocks : DSS: DLT finally open for trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Will Cunningham who wrote (61)	9/28/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 488

<<Is the tape drive report that you referenced available on the web?>> I read that a good while ago. I believe it might have been by a company called Strategic Research which seemed very pro Exabyte but the logic made sense. Might be on Exabyte's web site. Ecrix is a private company but has a web site that talks about their technology. Another wild card in all of this are the LTO drives, excellent specs, two capacity/transfer rates, uncertain date of introduction but probably around Q1, 2000, probably backhitching problems and expensive. No installed base and I have heard concerns about compatability between brands since they are being separately developed around a common standard. Big players-SEG, IBM, HP and more recently, I believe Sony joined the group. -Z

To: Will Cunningham who wrote (61)	9/28/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Alan Casey	Respond to of 488

Re: Roll-out of SDLT. They appear to be moving ahead well. Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999--Quantum Corporation's DLT & Storage Systems Group (NYSE:DSS) today announced that during September, leading OEMs and Quantum business partners began testing the first evaluation units of Quantum's much anticipated Super DLTtape(TM) (Super DLT) drive. These units confirm that the first generation Super DLTtape drive will deliver more than 100GB of uncompressed storage capacity on a single cartridge and offer a native transfer rate of higher than 10MB/sec. Super DLTtape technology is also designed to offer backward compatibility with the DLT 8000, DLT 7000 and DLT 4000 classes of drives. Super DLTtape products are expected to offer the same industry-wide ISV and OS support available for current DLTtape products. "IS and IT managers are eagerly awaiting the next generation tape drive that will offer reliable backup, archiving and disaster recovery for mid-range servers," said Fara Yale, chief analyst, Computer Storage Service at Gartner Group's Dataquest. "Shipping evaluation drives to major OEMs is a critical milestone for a new technology." Super DLTtape is well positioned among high-end tape systems under development, having earned a high level of OEM support early in the product development process. "Quantum continues to bring advanced technology to the market," stated Peter van Cuylenburg, president of Quantum's DLT & Storage Systems Group (DSSG). "Super DLTtape drives will further strengthen our market leadership." "Super DLTtape's state-of-the-art architecture is designed to meet our customers' storage requirements well into the future," said George Saliba, vice president of Quantum's Advanced Products Group and DSSG chief technical officer. These system level evaluation units demonstrate the many innovations of Super DLTtape including Laser Guided Magnetic Recording and advanced PRML (partial response maximum likelihood) technology. Using breakthrough Super DLTtape architecture, Quantum is poised to offer a multi-generational family of competitively priced tape storage products that range in capacity from above 100 GB up to one terabyte and range in transfer rates from above 10 MB/sec to 100 MB/sec (uncompressed). Like previous generations of DLTtape drives, Super DLTtape is expected to support all major systems and platforms, including UNIX, Linux, NetWare, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 98, AS/400, VMS, DOS, MAC and OS/2. As with the current DLTtape product line, Super DLTtape drives are expected to be widely supported by all major Integrated Software Vendors (ISVs). About DLTtape With more than 1.2 million DLTtape drives and nearly 40 million DLTtape media cartridges installed to date, DLTtape technology is the defacto standard for backing up and archiving business-critical data for mid-range servers and high-end workstations. Information on the DLTtape platform can be found at www.dlttape.com. Information about Super DLTtape can be found at www.dlttape.com/super_dlttape.