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benefit – investment protection: the DLT 8000 drive, which uses
the same DLTtape IV tape cartridges as the DLT 7000 drive, is
compatible with a very large percentage of all of the DLTtape
media ever sold (some 55 million cartridges).
DLTtape System Sales Growth
At the end of FY '99, sales of DLTtape products hit $1.4 billion, and
DLTtape products accounted for nearly 30 percent of Quantum’s
sales.According to Quantum CEO Michael Brown,“The move to
enterprise servers,the proliferation of Internet servers, and the
increase in mission-critical content stored on these servers have
dramatically increased the demand for backup and archival storage.
Quantum’s DLTtape drives use advanced linear recording technolo-
gy and a highly accurate tape guide system to provide exceptionally
reliable,scalable data backup and archival storage for mid-range
and high-end systems. These drives,which have become the indus-
try’s de facto standard, provide a strong foundation for market
acceptance of our next generation products.”
The Next Generation: Super DLTtape Technology
Early in 1998, Quantum had also revealed plans from the most
important development in the history of DLTtape technology:
Super DLTtape technology, the next generation of DLTtape technol-
ogy. It incorporates dramatic advances in virtually every important
area,from mechanical packaging through head design, tape guid-
ance,and media properties.Yet the Super DLTtape system is also
unmistakably a DLTtape product, providing a smooth growth path
from today's market leading technology to a new technology that
will deliver order-of-magnitude advances in capability.
By mid-2000, Quantum announced plans to deliver a family of
competitively priced tape drive products based on Super DLTtape
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