IBM LTO
IBM Linear Tape Open Solutions (LTO)
Why Linear Technology?
Why Rely On Tape For Backup?
What Are The Benefits Of LTO?
Why Choose IBM LTO?
LTO is whole new approach to tape format specifications designed
to bring open standards, and new levels of scalability, reliability
and automation to the open systems tape backup market.
It provides customers with powerful benefits:
- seamless data interchange and unprecedented levels of scalability,
reliability and performance
- faster paced innovation, lower prices, and true multivendor
compatibility
| Feature |
Benefit |
Value Statement |
| Robust Components: all metal clutch, steel ball
bearings in loader, robust leader block design, and single circuit
card |
Enhances reliability and helps extend drive life |
Helps protect data and IT investments. Can save
money because drives may need to be replaced less often |
| High cartridge capacity - up to 200GB compress
(2:1) and 100 GB uncompressed |
Fewer cartridges needed to store data |
Helps save money because less floor space and
fewer cartridges are needed to backup, restore, and archive
data |
| Rapid data transfer rates of up to 15MB/s native and 30MB/s
compressed (2:1) |
High performance |
Assists in reducing system downtime needed to perform backup
and restore tasks |
| Designed specifically for automation using robust leader pin,
IBM's lock block design, and 3rd generation timing-based servo |
Provides better vibration immunity; aids in reducing cartridge
damage; and, helps maintain a controlled eject position |
LTO can help reduce costs by reducing backup windows and lowering
cartridge expenditures |
| Stainless steel leader pin |
Lower risk of media damage or misload |
Aids in lowering media maintenance costs |
| Surface control guiding and 4th generation Magneto Resistive
head |
Helps increase data and media reliability by lowering wear
or stress on tape and reducing debris generation |
Helps improve data integrity |
| SAN and NAS ready |
Flexible scalability and shareability to meet future tape
backup needs |
LTO solution adapts easily as needs change |
| LTO standard and four generation product roadmap of planned
enhancements |
Promotes standardization; allows for multiple media and drive
providers; and, grows to meet future needs |
Encourages competitive pricing and quality in the marketplace.
Open means any vendor's LTO cartridge works in any vendor's
LTO drive |
| IBM drives are based on 50 years of tape experience |
Innovative company with commitment to customers and service |
Commitment to advancing technology in the marketplace, with
400 storage-related patents in 2000 |
Why Linear Technology?
- The linear format is time-tested and market proven
- The mechanical simplicity of linear technology means there are
few moving parts, providing proven durability and lower maintenance
costs
- Enhancements in the areas of timing-based servo, hardware data
compression, optimized track layouts and high efficiency error
correction code (ECC) maximizes capacity and performance
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Why Rely On Tape For Backup?
With the rise of ecommerce, data repositories and other data-intensive
applications, more data must be backed up and stored ever more quickly.
- Tape is still the top performer in terms of cost and capacity
for data storage, playing a crucial role in corporate data protection
strategies
- No other technology offers the low cost and high capacity advantages
of tape
- Overall, tape meets the broadest set of customer needs
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What Are The Benefits Of LTO?
- Unparalleled tape backup scalability accommodates a wide range
of system formats
- Easily integrates into current operating environments
- Four generation roadmap protects your investment today and in
the future
- Migration paths focused on increasing maximum transfer rates
to reduce backup window. In addition, capacity will double in
each successive generation
- The LTO Ultrium format offers exceptional investment protection.
As a truly open tape solution, the LTO Ultrium format has gained
widespread industry acceptance from leading tape drive, media,
and automation companies. More than 30 licensees have already
demonstrated their endorsement of the technology
- Simplified product planning means faster cycle time for new
features
- Compliance testing ensures that LTO Ultrium drives and media
cartridges conform to the specification to deliver data interchange
among multiple vendors’ products
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Why Choose IBM LTO?
- IBM offers a complete family of solutions comprising tape drives
and small- medium- and large tape automation solutions that leverage
the Ultrium ultra-high-capacity recording format. This family
delivers exceptional performance, widespread availability, and
a lower price data storage solution
- Highest Levels of Reliability. When you entrust your data to
a storage medium, you want the very highest levels of reliability.
For more than 40 years—longer than any other major storage
vendor—IBM has been leading the way in tape storage technology
- High Capacity - up to 200 GB of compressed data can fit on a
single compact cartridge
- High Data Transfer Rate - sustained data transfer rates of up
to 30 MB/second are supported in the first generation
- Our LTO Ultrium solutions are designed to grow with your needs,
across platforms and operating systems
- IBM has invented much of today’s most advanced storage
technology
- IBM introduced the first tape drive in 1952 and the first disk
drive in 1956. The IBM LTO-based Ultrium format tape drives are
simply the latest IBM storage developments to leverage this unparalleled
track record of innovation and expertise
- The IBM Ultrium format technology leverages earlier IBM innovations
as building blocks for enhancement
- The dramatic increases in linear and track density, and the
use of multi-track, linear-serpentine recording are natural extensions
of existing IBM tape technologies
- The enhancements in tape track and magneto-resistive (MR) head
technology leverage the high number of concurrent channels and
track density characteristics of the LTO specifications
- The error correction code (ECC) used in the IBM Ultrium tape
products is powerful enough to ensure reliable recovery of data
even with the loss of a track or head. The high efficiency ECC
is based on the same architecture as existing IBM tape technologies
- When you choose IBM, you have immediate access to an end-to-end
solution whatever the requirement. From individual tape drives
to ultrascalable libraries to disk, from printers to software,
IBM has a solution
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