Atto Supports LTO-9 Across Product Lines

Atto Technology, Inc. announced support for LTO-9 tape technology across its product lines.

The technology improves upon the prior gen with more storage capacity and transfer speed. LTO-9 Ultrium tape stores up to 18TB uncompressed and 45TB compressed which is 50% greater capacity than LTO-8. Transfer speeds reach up to 400MB/s uncompressed and up to 1,000 MB/s compressed. Drives are backward compatible with LTO-8 media.

The company supports backup and archive processes end-to-end with a range of connectivity solutions for every environment. Industry firm’s features and technologies allow for quicker and safer backups plus provide design flexibility otherwise unavailable to system designers.

The company’s Advanced Data Streaming, built into all firm’s HBAs, bridges and Thunderbolt devices, manages latency to provide controlled acceleration for smooth data streaming to maintain consistent performance.

Xstreamcore 7600

When backing up data, write speed is the most important metric. Atto SpeedWrite keeps paths between a host and XstreamCORE intelligent Bridge filled with data to boost write performance by up to 25% over a direct connect SAS HBA connection to tape drives.

Thunderlink Thunderbolt adapter

ThunderLink Thunderbolt adapters and ExpressSAS GT SAS HBAs deliver a fast connection to LTO-9 SAS tape drives. Featuring a range of port configurations and driver support, easy-to-use features, industry qualifications and integrates with up to 16 tape drives per bridge.

ExpressSAS ESAH 12F0GT

XstreamCORE intelligent Bridges enable the addition of direct-attached SAS tape to shared Ethernet networks, providing a flexible and easy way to scale and remotely share LTO-9 tape devices.

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