25 YEARS OF INNOVATION WITH LTO TAPE.

Posted on 18-09-2025, in Data Storage, LTO Roadmap, LTO Tape Growth by Stuart Humphrey

How time flies when you’re having fun! Customers worldwide have enjoyed the data-saving attributes of LTO tape technology since the first generation was made available in 2000. LTO tape technology has grown and matured to become a data security mainstay of businesses in industries around the globe to securely protect and make valuable information available. With a record amount of LTO capacity being shipped in 2023, it’s true to say...

ImageStore Ltd Announces UK & EMEA Partnership with Qualstar to Provide Advanced Tape Library Solutions

Posted on 08-04-2025, in Data Storage by James Kadzidlo

https://www.imagestore.co.uk/qualstar-press-release UK [8th April 2025] — ImageStore Ltd, a leading provider of data storage solutions in the UK, is excited to announce its new partnership with Qualstar, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced tape libraries and data storage solutions. As a newly appointed UK and EMEA preferred partner, ImageStore will now offer the full range of Qualstar's Q-Series t...

LTO Roadmap

LTO Roadmap extended to Generation 14.

Posted on 27-09-2023, in LTO Roadmap by Stuart Humphrey

The LTO Program’s latest technology roadmap details specifications for up to fourteen generations of tape technology. The LTO Program first released its LTO Ultrium standard in 2000 with a capacity of 200 GB per cartridge compressed. Two decades later, the LTO Program released LTO generation 9, which supports tape cartridge storage compressed capacity of up to 45 TB* and tape drive data transfer rates of up to 1,000 MB/second*. At less than...

Goodbye Drobo… Welcome OWC.

Posted on 14-04-2023, in NAS Storage by Ash Mehta

As of January 27th, 2023, Drobo support and products are no longer available. Drobo products were well made and award winning.  Photographers and digital creatives were snapping up Drobo's stylish range of products for a few years, but then things started to go wrong! StorCentric stepped in and acquired Drobo in 2018, however soon after this acquisition, supply and support issues continued to slide leading to terrible lead times, no...

LTO Tape Growth Remains on Track in Volatile Environment

Posted on 23-01-2023, in LTO Tape Growth by Stuart Humphrey

LTO Tape Market Long Term ForecastsBased on current information, the 2022 tape native capacity is forecast to rise 14% to 79.30EB (Exabytes) slightly less than the 17% growth projected earlier in 2022. For 2023, capacity shipment growth is forecast to rise 13% as slowing growth from on-premises customers is offset partially by expected cloud increases, discussed in the next section. While LTO-9 was released one year ago, adoption of this latest...

QNAP 16 Bay Desktop NAS with Thunderbolt 3

Posted on 17-11-2022, in NAS Storage by Ash Mehta

The TVS-H1688X-W1250-32G is without a shadow of doubt the most impressive desktop NAS out there right now. It's functionality, performance and features have all been designed with content creators in mind, with upto 5 Thunderbolt users simultaneously enjoying access to photo/video editing. I won't go into the tech specs of the H1688X, just take a look at the datasheet on our website, where you will also see our unbeatable price! These units...

New Products from ImageStore

Posted on 11-06-2019, in Data Storage by Ash Mehta

ImageStore are adding three new lines to our existing product portfolio.HPE Servers, Cisco Switches, APC Smart-UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supplies)                          ...

LTO-8 is here

Posted on 21-02-2018, in Data Storage by Andy Humphrey

LTO-8 is the latest generation of the Ultrium LTO specification. The technology improvements for LTO-8 tape drives and media have increased capacity, performance, and reliability. The LTO-8 drive is available in two versions: full-height (FH) and half-height (HH) drive form factors. The LTO tape format has become the market-dominating standard for magnetic recording tape drives and media over the past years. The technology has progressed fr...

Don’t Be Held To Ransom By Ransomware

Posted on 02-08-2017, in Data Storage by Andy Humphrey

172% RISE IN RANSOMWARE ATTACKS IN THE LAST 2 YEARS  Ransomware is malicious software that denies access to a user’s data by encrypting that data with a key known only to the hacker who deployed the ransomware. Until a ransom is paid a user cannot get access to their data. Some ransomware also destroys or transfers information to another system.     HOW CAN YOUR CUSTOMERS AVOID RANSOMWARE ATTACKS? • Anti-Virus / Anti-Malwar...

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