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November 2001
TPC Confidential - Embargoed Until 11/26/01
The Preferred Open Tape The Preferred Open Tape FormatFormat
ECMA acceptance in August 2001
Adoption By Virtually All Automation
Adoption By Majority of System OEMs
Delivery on the Promise
Ultrium format is the platinum standard for midrange tape solutions
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LTO Original ObjectivesLTO Original Objectives To establish a new open format specification for high
capacity, high performance tape storage products for midrange and network server environments
To create a new benchmark for data integrity and reliability
To define a credible technology roadmap with long range growth capabilities
To provide users with superior format options and multiple vendor product alternatives
To meet diverse user and tape application needs
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LTO Original ObjectivesLTO Original Objectives
To establish a new open format specification for high capacity, high performance tape storage products for midrange and network server environments
– Multiple Ultrium format licensees began delivering products in the second half of CY2000 to satisfy industry demand for open format solutions in the midrange of the tape market
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Open Format DefinedOpen Format DefinedCharacteristics
– No entry barriers to any company willing to acquire a technology license
– Input from licensee base on technology development
– Compatibility between various manufacturers’ products
– Technological independence between manufacturers’ products
– Differentiation of products based on feature sets
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Open Format BenefitsOpen Format Benefits
Increased market competition– price– feature set– technology development
Satisfaction of user requirements based on needs versus feature sets of drives, not formats
Multiple sources of technologically independent supply
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LTO Original ObjectivesLTO Original Objectives
To create a new benchmark for data integrity and reliability
– LTO Ultrium products have been widely accepted in the market reaching the highest levels of data integrity and reliability in thousands of customer installations worldwide.
– Cartridge interchange amongst multiple drives has been demonstrated by independent testing.
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LTO Original ObjectivesLTO Original Objectives
To define a credible technology roadmap with long range growth capabilities
– LTO Ultrium roadmap has not changed since its introduction in 1998.
– Today, we are announcing the availability in first quarter of 2002 of licenses for second-generation LTO Ultrium technology
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LTO Ultrium RoadmapLTO Ultrium Roadmap
Ultrium
Generation
1
Capacity
Native
Compressed
100GB
200GB
Data Rate
Native
Compressed
10-20 MB/s
20-40 MB/s
Media Metal Particle
Generation2
200GB400GB
20-40 MB/s40-80 MB/s
MetalParticle
Generation
3
Generation
4
400GB
800GB
800GB
1.6TB
40-80 MB/s
80-160 MB/s
80-160 MB/s
160-320 MB/s
Metal Particle Thin Film
Ultrium
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LTO Original ObjectivesLTO Original Objectives
To provide users with superior format options and multiple vendor product alternatives
– LTO Ultrium drives currently are available from three different manufacturers
– LTO Ultrium products are sold by virtually all of the automation companies and the vast majority of systems vendors
– LTO Ultrium media products are offered by five of the major media manufacturers
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MilestonesMilestones
April 8, 1997 - First HP, IBM, Seagate business meeting to discuss potential tape initiative
November 4, 1997 - Announce joint HP, IBM, Seagate tape initiative
April 7, 1998 - Announce LTO tape format specifications and license availability July 22 & 23, 1998 - First LTO Manufacturers Group meeting
May 1999 –First independent format verification process. MAC is entity
January 2000 – Program reaches more than 25 industry wide licencees June 2000 – Fujifilm & Maxell pass compliance verification process
August 2000 – HP, IBM and Seagate pass compliance verification process for
Ultrium Tape Drives
November 2000 – First generation of Ultrium interchangeable products
showcased at Comdex
July 2001 – EMTEC & Imation pass compliance verification testing
August 2001 - Ultrium format is accepted as an ECMA standard
September 2001 – TDK becomes 5th media licensee to pass compliance
September 2001 - Ultrium format ships its 1,000,000th data cartridge
November 2001 – Generation 2 Ultrium format announced
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Current LTO LicenseesCurrent LTO Licensees Accutronics Inc. Advanced Research Corp. Alps Electric Co. LTD Benchmark Tape Systems Corp. eMag Solutions EMTEC Magnetics GmbH Exabyte Corp. Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. Fujitsu Ltd./FCPA Intellistor Hewlett-Packard Co. Hi/fn Maxell IBM Corp. Imation Corp. M4 Data Ltd. Matsushita Electric Industry (MEI) Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.
Mountain Engineering II Inc. NEC Corp. Ontrack Data Intl. Otari Inc. Overland Data, Inc. Phillips Semiconductor Gratkorn GmbH Plasmon IDE Inc. Quantegy Inc. Seagate Removable Storage Solutions
LLC Sony Corp. Tandberg Data TDK Corp. Verbatim Corp.
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Ultrium’s Adoption Ultrium’s Adoption SuccessSuccessAutomation Manufacturers
– StorageTek, ADIC, ATL, Overland Data, Qualstar,
Exabyte, Plasmon, MaxOptics (BreeceHill), HP
and IBM
System OEMs
– Dell, HP, IBM, Sun and Fujitsu
Distribution Channel
– Major distribution partners and storage
integrators worldwide
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Ultrium’s Adoption Ultrium’s Adoption SuccessSuccess
Over 1,000,000 Ultrium format data cartridges shipped
Equates to:
161 Petabytes compressed (200 Petabytes is equivalent to all printed material produced globally in 1995.)
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LTO Original ObjectivesLTO Original Objectives
To meet diverse user and tape application needs
– LTO Ultrium products are installed in the vast majority of storage environments
• Automation solutions• SAN & NAS environments• Fibre channel solutions
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Ultrium Generation 2Ultrium Generation 2
Licensing Information
Program Infrastructure
Roadmap Commitment
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Open Format Licensing Open Format Licensing ApproachApproach
License packages designed for broad acceptance
Two packages - Basic & Enhanced
Basic Package– Technical information necessary to develop mechanisms and cartridges
that interchange between products of the same format
– LTO data compression specification
Enhanced Package– Basic package information
– Additional information about tolerance interdependencies, interchange verification testing and a conceptual overview of the design
– Certain trademarks of the Technology Provider Companies, upon successfully passing and maintaining compliance verification requirements
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Program InfrastructureProgram Infrastructure
LTO TPCs
TechnologyProvider
Companies
Hewlett-PackardIBM
Seagate
LTO Infrastructure
• LTO Manufacturers Group• LTO Licensing Agency• LTO Compliance Verification Entity• LTO PR Agency• LTO Web Site Manager• LTO Publisher
• New business opportunity
• Access to LTO specifications
• Information exchange at Manufacturers Group Meetings
• Participation in definition ofspecifications
• LTO documentation
• LTO promotion & publicity
• Independent administration oflicensing process
• Independent compliance testing
LTO Licensee Benefits
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LTO Ultrium Generation 2LTO Ultrium Generation 2
Roadmap Commitment– 200GB uncompressed capacity
– Data Rate of 20MB to 40MB
– Backward Read/Write Capability
– Leverage existing technologies• Delivering on the evolutionary promise
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LTO Ultrium Generation 2LTO Ultrium Generation 2
Critical Element of Success
– Maintain the integrity of existing technology
within the format specification
• provides stability
• reduces risk of adoption
• increases reliability
• delivers on evolutionary promise
• maintains the integrity of the roadmap
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Primary EvolutionPrimary Evolution Innovative multi-channel linear serpentine recording
– Provides optimum balance among• Drive and media reliability
• Data integrity
• Read/write data transfer performance
• Tape cartridge capacity
LTO cartridge memory (LTO CM)– Enables storage and retrieval of information about the cartridge and data
• Cartridge information
• Data positioning information
• User-specified information
– Non-contacting radio frequency (RF)interface
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Primary EvolutionPrimary Evolution Advanced magnetic timing-based track-following servo
system– Concept proven in tens-of-thousands of tape drives in use today– Enables ultra-high track density and cartridge capacity– Helps assure data integrity and cartridge interchangeability
Advanced technologies for data integrity – Advanced Error Correction Codes (ECC)
• Automatic correction of most cross-track errors
• Automatic correction even if a full track is lost
– Tape demarked and data rewritten through• Dynamic rewrite of bad blocks
• Discontinuing writing in areas where servo signals are unreliable
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SummarySummary Ultrium format has strong adoption within OEM,
automation and distribution channels Ultrium format ships 1,000,000th data cartridge Ultrium format has delivered on its Generation 1
promise Generation 2 licenses available CQ1 2002
Ultrium format is the platinum standard
for midrange tape solutions