LTO Program

The LTO Program, formed by HPE, IBM and Quantum, develops a powerful, scalable, adaptable open tape format created to address data protection and archive in the midrange to enterprise-class server environments. The LTO format is designed to support workloads where information will remain unalterable and offers users a twelve generation roadmap, and state-of-the-art features including high capacity (30 TB per cartridge) -- blazing performance at up to 750MB/second (LTO-8 tape at 2.5:1 compressed) partitioning, and air gap protection against malicious attacks. In addition the innovative Linear Tape File System (LTFS) has made tape easier to use than ever before.