{"id":48717,"date":"2025-08-13T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2025\/08\/13\/the-lto-program-introduces-generation-10-of-its-leading-tape-technology-providing-exceptional-media-density\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:49:07","slug":"the-lto-program-introduces-generation-10-of-its-leading-tape-technology-providing-exceptional-media-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2025\/08\/13\/the-lto-program-introduces-generation-10-of-its-leading-tape-technology-providing-exceptional-media-density\/","title":{"rendered":"The LTO Program introduces Generation 10 of its leading tape technology, providing exceptional media density"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The new LTO-10 format, with a capacity of up to 75TB, now requires no optimisation time. The LTO Program&#8217;s Technology Provider Companies &#8211; Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum &#8211; have publicly released the specifications for this new format, which is now available for licensing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tape storage technology uses magnetic tape cartridges to store data, primarily for long-term archiving and backups. Unlike hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs) which provide random access to data, tape storage is a sequential acces<strong>s<\/strong> medium. This means data is read and written in a continuous stream, so accessing a specific file requires the tape to wind to that location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this makes it slower for real-time data access, tape storage offers several key benefits that make it an essential part of modern data management strategies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cost-effectiveness:<\/strong> Tape has a significantly lower cost per terabyte compared to other storage types.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>High capacity:<\/strong> Modern tape formats like LTO (Linear Tape-Open) can store multiple terabytes of data on a single cartridge.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Durability and Longevity:<\/strong> Tapes can maintain data integrity for several decades if stored properly, making them ideal for long-term archives and regulatory compliance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cyber resilience:<\/strong> Because tapes are often stored offline, they create a physical \u2018air gap\u2019 that protects data from online threats like malware, ransomware, and cyberattacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As the world\u2019s first post-quantum cryptography ready tape drive, LTO-10 provides advanced security during key exchange for dependable data encryption and delivers 30TB native capacity (up to 75TB compressed) with a native data rate of 400 MBps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LTO-10 also offers optimised capacity for customers seeking long-term retention storage, enabling them to leverage existing infrastructure while enhancing cost-efficiency, cyber-resiliency and data durability across archival, compliance and hybrid cloud environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTape is a widely used storage technology across a variety of industries, national governments, high energy particle physics, weather forecasting, finance and insurance, media and entertainment. The latest generation of LTO technology effectively builds upon the capabilities of the previous generation to provide organisations with an even more powerful solution for their ever-growing data storage needs,\u201d said Sam Werner, General Manager, IBM Storage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTape continues to deliver some of the best value in data storage, combining low costs with minimal energy use,\u201d said Phil Goodwin, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Software Platforms, IDC. \u201cIn addition, with the vast cyber threat landscape expanding, tape remains an ideal solution for keeping data safe and protected. The many benefits of this technology should not be overlooked as tape advances and organisations reconfigure their data architectures for the modern era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new LTO-10 format, with a capacity of up to 75TB, now requires no optimisation time. The LTO Program&#8217;s Technology Provider Companies &#8211; Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum &#8211; have publicly released the specifications for this new format, which is now available for licensing. Tape storage technology uses magnetic tape cartridges to store data, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4017,"featured_media":49095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7027,12,3559,4664,14,15,8283,1659,44],"tags":[9209,174,9210,9005,9211,9212,2392,9213,9214],"class_list":["post-48717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-technologies-ai","category-cloud","category-cybersecurity","category-intelligent-technologies-data","category-data-centres","category-digital-transformation","category-innovation","category-north-america","category-top-stories","tag-and-innovation","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-archiving","tag-data-resilience","tag-lto-program","tag-media-density","tag-quantum-computing","tag-storage-technology","tag-technology-providers"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49092,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717\/revisions\/49092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}