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
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
Introducing the New SymplySPARK & SPARK XT 4-Bay RAIDs – Now Lighter, Compact, and More Powerful. Symply, a leading name in Storage solutions, has expanded its 8-bay SPARK series with the highly anticipated 4-Bay SPARK and SPARK XT RAIDs. These systems are now more compact and lightweight, making them
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
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
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
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
ImageStore are adding three new lines to our existing product portfolio.HPE Servers, Cisco Switches, APC Smart-UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supplies)
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
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.
FujiFilm have written a good in-depth article on the future of LTO tape and it’s major role in data storage for all business’s : The Future of Tape Media
Thunderbolt RAID and LTO-7 Tape Archiving Solution for Digital Workflows Finally a simple all-in-one solution for your digital workflow. 1. Copy your camera cards / data to the high speed RAID 2. Edit your data stored on the 6x 2.5″ HDDs or SSDs 3. Archive your raw data and finished projects
LaCie® 12big Thunderbolt™ 3, a professional 12-bay desktop RAID storage unit designed by Neil Poulton. With up to 120TB of capacity, the breakthrough performance of Thunderbolt 3 and RAID 5/6, the LaCie 12big helps video professionals meet the data demands of 4/5/6K cameras.
Ordering just got easier with ImageStore. one time registration save details when checking out (via the secure SagePay system) for future purchases only your CV2 code is required Single click checkout with no loss of security. *To implement this tick the Save Card Details for future use box when you
Welcome to Issue 3 of our quarterly newsletter. All the latest Data Storage technology news and products.
LTO-7 Ultrium Tape Drives for Data Protection and Retention LTO-7 tape drives deliver reliable data protection with huge capacity and performance at an affordable price. In addition, they use less power than LTO-5 drives, making a “greener” and more energy efficient solution. LTO is the best long term storage medium
DROBO LAUNCHES THE WORLD’S FIRST 64TB NAS WITH DATA AWARE TIERING DroboTM, the maker of smart storage arrays for businesses and professionals launched the B810n hybrid storage system. Built on the award-winning BeyondRAIDTM technology, coupled with hybrid storage and innovative data aware tiering, the Drobo B810n is 5-times faster than
We cannot avoid choice in today’s market. Whether it’s choosing a car, a phone, even a light bulb. This also applies to data storage. Choice is healthy, it brings options, price competition but also a higher degree of user confusion. I have lost count where due to choice I have
Backup Bundle Promotion Ask yourself. Is it time to upgrade your backup solution ? We know your data is important. See the benefits of the latest LTO-6 generation : Large capacity to store data (up to 6.25TB per tape) Increased transfer speeds (up to 400mb/sec) LTFS functionality – drag and drop method for file sharing
The Wait is Finally Over! 4TB Rugged RAID is Now Shipping. The 4TB LaCie® Rugged RAID, one of the toughest all-terrain mobile storage devices on the market, is now available from ImageStore Limited. Packing twice the speed and capacity of a standard mobile hard drive in its compact design, the LaCie
Welcome to Issue 2 of our quarterly newsletter. All the latest Data Storage technology news and products.
The Award Winning LaCie Rugged RAID just got better… …. with 2 internal Hard Drives, a total capacity of 4 TB of ultra-resistant, go-anywhere storage with 240mb/s sustained performance. Never again worry about dropping your coffee or driving over your valuable data. The Rugged RAID will keep it safe. About the Rugged RAID In case you
It’s a foolish data storage professional who considers that tape isn’t worth paying attention to. The fact of the matter is that tape continues to be the medium of choice for the bulk of stored data and its usage is growing. As a sign of the health of tape, storage
The Tape Storage Council, which includes representatives of BDT, Crossroads Systems, Fujifilm, HP, IBM, Imation, Iron Mountain, Oracle, Overland Storage, Qualstar, Quantum, REB Storage Systems, Recall, Spectra Logic, Tandberg Data and XpresspaX has issued the following memo to highlight the current trends, usages and technology innovations occurring within the tape storage
The RDX® QuikStor™ removable disk system is an easy to use, well established and affordable storage system for backup, archiving and data exchange. Now is getting to its next stage. The new RDX USB3+ external drive technology doesn’t need an external power supply any more. This makes RDX more flexible
Infotrend brings you reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. At ImageStore we have begun to move all our Broadcast and Media customers over to the Infortrend EonNAS. We have seen a lot more block level unified use of NAS in the Media environment simply using the NAS as an iSCSI
The PCIe SSD drive built for the most demanding needs of video editing and creative professionals. Boot, Launch, Create, and Save Faster With its simultaneous internal and external storage performance, the Mercury Accelsior_E2 offers the best combination of speed, capacity, and connectivity available today. Stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop,
Latest article in the Film & Video magazine : http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/189439/image_store_looking_at_long_term_data_archiving Image Store: Looking At Long-Term Data Archiving If you are storing data on hard disks for the long-term, you WILL lose data. You need a Plan B. In this article we look at LTO tape which is low cost, reliable and
ImageStore has introduced a new range of NAS from Seagate to our product range. Seagate NAS offers : Hardware, software and hard drives are built by Seagate. 5 new products up to 30TB capacity from 1 to 50 employees. NAS HDDs engineered to run 24×7 , low vibration and power efficient.
Apple isn’t the only one with big announcements. HP, IBM and Quantum have announced details of Generation 9 and 10 LTO Ultrium tape technology. This is an enormously significant development. Far from tape being in decline, its leaders are confident enough to publicly commit R&D investment into new tape technologies
Businesses today face an ever increasing need to hold onto data for long periods. Not a straight forward additional challenge as technologies do not always favour retaining data for lengthy periods. What storage applications are available on the market place that you should be considering? Let’s examine them including flash
Growing business? More and more resources being used up with media files and other like minded data rich components. Is your IT structure out of date but the thought of replacing it confuses the IT guy, do you have one? and frightens the Finance manager. Then maybe it’s time to
Looking after your data is vital. This is why solutions are sought after, back ups performed, duplicated, for that day you hope will never arrive. The main point here is that your data is important. You have taken the time and commitment to look after it, therefore, it is important to
With LTO Generation 7 on the horizon. I thought it best just to re-emphasize what a great product the LTO 6 tape drive is in today’s market need for a reliable, robust back-up/archive data solution. The LTO 6 tape drive is the latest model in a 8 generation roadmap. Each step
We are seeing more and more Mac users looking into the different options available today for their data storage solutions. LTO tape is a serious contender with its reliability, versatility and cost effectiveness. With many users in high end data consumption (in excess of 1TB daily/weekly), speed and ease of storage
Let’s face it, no-one wants to back up their data. But, due to that small chance of data failure we adhere and comply to a back up solution to nullify the risk and enable us to recover our precious and invaluable data. So, what do you choose in an ever
We cannot avoid choice in today’s market. Whether it’s choosing a car, a phone, even a light bulb. This also applies to data storage. Choice is healthy, it brings options, price competition but also a higher degree of user confusion. I have lost count where due to choice I have
