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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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