IBM last week bolstered its tape storage portfolio with new media, encryption and data retention capabilities, as well as a new virtual tape library that makes backing up data a more efficient affair.

The imminent arrival of the new LTO-7 tape format, details of which were released in September, is proof that tape has yet to breathe its last, despite multiple reports to the contrary. The LTO-7 ...

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 ...

LTO (linear tape open)-based drives are invigorating the tape storage market. New third-generation LTO drives from Certance and IBM are powering the trend. IBM TotalStorage 3580 Tape Drive Generation ...

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.

Holographic tape operated inside a production LTO library without infrastructure changes Live application software accessed holographic media using standard tape library workflows Cartridge dimensions ...