Overland-Tandberg NEO Series Tape Automation and Drive With LTO-8

Overland-Tandberg, a brand of Sphere 3D Corp., announced the availability of next-generation LTO-8 in its NEO Series product line of tape automation and standalone tape drive solutions designed to provide cost-effective backup and archive applications for enterprises of any size.

Authorized company’s partners can place orders for NEO LTO-8 solutions.

Support for LTO-8 allows existing customers to double their capacity when compared to LTO-7. In addition, the LTO-8 drives will be backward compatible with LTO-7 tape media, allowing LTO-8 drive users to R/W any LTO-7 media.

NEO Series LTO-8 product highlights:

• LTO-8 offers a compressed storage capacity of 30TB (12TB native) using a 2.5:1 ratio, and a compressed transfer rate of 750MB/s (360MB/s native)

• LTO-8 tape, like LTO-7, supports LTFS, WORM (Write Once Read Many) and AES 256-bit hardware encryption

• NEO-XL Series: With capacities ranging from 960TB to 16.8PB, the NEO-XL Series addresses the need for midrange and enterprise businesses to do more with less by combining automated backup, DR and archive with flexibility, density, performance and affordability to ensure that data is protected faster, smarter, easier and more cost effectively.

• NEO-S Series: Designed for IT offices with limited space, resources and budgets, this family delivers the ultimate in simple, affordable, reliable backup, archive and DR and supports up to 360TB of data into a single unit of rack height.

• NEO LTO Ultrium tape drives: With performance and capacity, and available in both internal and external configurations, these tape drives provide up to 30TB per cartridge and are for backing up and archiving data on single workstations or small networks.

NEO Series LTO-8 products are available for order through authorized company’s distributors, starting at MSRP of $3,199 or €2,855.