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HP FINDS HOLE IN TAPE BACK-UP OFFERINGS

Up until now, there have been two popular tape storage formats, low end digital audio tape (DAT) and 8-mm tape cartridges and high end 3480 and 3490 tape cartridges. Concurrently, client-server computing began replacing mainframe computers for mission critical applications in large corporations. Thus smaller servers have proliferated throughout a company’s LAN. The servers’ on line storage was too small for the 3490 and too large for DAT and 8-mm..

The storage capacity window for this unserved niche ranged in size from a few hundred megabytes up to hundreds of gigabytes on storage. The need is for a tape solution with a price-performance between the high and low end. The solution is digital linear tape (DLT).

DLT tape technology was developed originally by Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Mass. and acquired and enhanced by Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, Calif. It was designed to meet the needs of the midrange computer systems world. It had languished for a few years as market demand suddenly caught up.

Now the DLT market is on a rapid growth ramp. According to Freeman Associates Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., broad market acceptance of DLT automation will result in an overall market growth of DLT tape libraries of more than 2,000 percent between 1995 and the year 2000, representing a market of almost 25,000 units in the year 2000.

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