november 2001. tpc confidential - embargoed until 11/26/01 the preferred open tape format ecma...

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


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


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


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


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



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.



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


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



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


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


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.


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


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.)



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


Ultrium Generation 2Ultrium Generation 2

Licensing Information

Program Infrastructure

Roadmap Commitment


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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