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DLT TAPE MARKET TAKES OFF
In the just-published 1996 edition of Mass Storage Outlook:
Tape Libraries, Ray Freeman, president of Freeman Associates, Inc. in
Santa Barbara, Calif, says tape libraries are rapidly expanding sales
worldwide.
“By 2001, corporations will have automated the storage management
function to manage and protect the massive and rapidly expanding amounts
of critical business data. DLT libraries will be an important beneficiary
of this trend. We forecast that the installed base of all tape libraries
will balloon from 33,763 units in 1995 to 414,035 by 2001.”
Freeman shows ATL Products Inc. of Anaheim, Calif. leading the high-end
DLT library market, with a 55% share for product with more than 40 cartridges,
62% ahead of the next contender in the category. In the under-40 cartridges
category, ATL Products has 11% market share even though first shipment
of the ATL's ACL2/28 library was in late 1995.
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