QUANTUM DLTtape HANDBOOK
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Breadth of product line.
Quantum is taking advantage of the suc-
cess of DLTtape technology by building an extensive family of
DLTtape system products. In an enterprise storage strategy, that
means you have a choice among multiple compatible building
blocks, all using the same basic technology, but which you can
deploy in different situations, depending on the exact needs of
each piece of the storage hierarchy. Quantum is committed to
offering a broad family of competitively-priced tape drive products
based on DLTtape and Super DLTtape technology and designed to
address the individual storage needs of low-, mid-, and high-end
sytem users in the mid-range data storage sphere.
Automation.
Finally, automation will be an increasingly important
part of enterprise storage management solutions. DLTtape systems
demonstrated long ago that they are especially well suited to auto-
mated solutions.
Next, we’ll look at the “brains” behind the scenes in the DLTtape
system and almost every electronic device in use today – firmware.
