IBM sets new standards for the Open Tape Market with its family of Ultrium Tape Solutions. Ultrium is the first product from the Linear Tape Open Consortium and is an open, independently controlled and certified tape standard. It is designed for the server, Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network environment.By fully leveraging advanced Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, the IBM Ultrium Scalable Tape Library provides an ideal solution for cost-effectively handling a wide range of backup, archive, and disaster recovery data storage needs. The breakthrough reliability, capacity and performance of LTO offers an excellent alternative to DLT, 8mm, 4mm, or 1/4-inch tape drives for streaming data applications such as backup.This IBM 3583 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium Scalable Tape Library connects to IBM iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, RS/6000, RS/6000 SP, AS/400, and Netfinity families of workstations and network servers, and other non-IBM servers, workstations and personal computers that support Fiber Channel, Ultra2/Wide SCSI LVD, or HVD Ultra SCSI tape drive attachment.